# "Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 3) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 19, 2024, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451 "2024-11-19T10:57:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 295
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5881 "2025-12-15T14:22:35Z")
Wordle 1,640 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART SPOIL COUGH (aware no H, fishing for U, C, and G) BONGO DODGY ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5882 "2025-12-15T15:07:35Z")
Wordle 1,640 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟦 🟧⬛⬛🟦⬛ 🟧🟧⬛⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 BRAND DEPOT DOILY DODGY TIL that Scordle lists the “possible guesses” at each step in the order of how optimal it considers each guess. And apparently DEPOT was my 87th-best choice at two. Yikes. Ah well, managed a par regardless. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5883 "2025-12-15T15:09:59Z")
> **Wordle 1,640 4/6\* 12/15/2025** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 > 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ > 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > SWIN_G_ → Thought for a second I was gonna whiff. A rarer consonant is pretty good, now I just have to find out where it goes - and do my usual vowels-and-WoFcons thing as well, such as with > _G_LARE → Huh. Not much help there. So try O & U, throw in T as my last WoFcon, shake 'em up and add H and try > _O_U_G_HT → Maybe TOUGH would have been a better one to try. Hmm. Double letter? It’s not ?OGGY. Perhaps ?OOGY, like LOOGY? BOOGY is probably a valid guess but not a solution. Or maybe there’s another repeat letter I could use > **DODGY** > > A testament to the power of elimination. Also, starting off with the one letter was good, even if it was _so_ hard to run down its place. My fourth guess was between a 3-trap variant of the solution (I think the other two possibles are bogus) and the one word I had considered (and rightly rejected). Scoredle, on the other hand, finishes with a birdie via GAUGE as its second guess, one which turns out to be extremely effective at both eliminating consonants and placing the one known letter, leading to a 50-50 par. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5884 "2025-12-15T15:20:15Z")
Wordle 1,640 3/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STEAL DROWN DODGY ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5885 "2025-12-15T15:22:55Z")
Wordle 1640 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE DUMPY DOOZY - brain fart, second ‘O’ can’t be in that spot DOGGY DODGY Would’ve just been a 5 if I hadn’t goofed with DOOZY at 4. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5886 "2025-12-15T16:36:32Z")
Wordle 1,640 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟧⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟧⬜⬜🟦 🟧🟧⬜⬜🟧 🟧🟧⬜🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE - uh-oh HOIST - double uh-oh WOULD DOOZY DOGGY DODGY ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5887 "2025-12-15T17:51:42Z")
Word I use all the time 🤬 Wordle 1,6 **41** 4/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 😳 Ai assisted 😵‍💫 🦘 ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5888 "2025-12-16T05:26:50Z")
Wordle 1,641 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO LUNES SEGUE ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5889 "2025-12-16T07:40:30Z")
Wordle 1,641 3/6 **TUESDAY** ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AUDIO PRUNE SEGUE ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5890 "2025-12-16T09:20:11Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > You lucky, lucky bastard ! Yes sir!! (From aboard my airplane crossing the Pacific Ocean, where my iPhone thinks it’s 0120hrs but it’s really not; it’s closer to 1720hrs Philippines time) **Wordle 1,641 4/6 — 2025-12-16 _TUESDAY_** 🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **STEAL** **BOUND** **PRIVY** **SEGUE** ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5891 "2025-12-16T10:55:14Z")
Wordle 1,641 4/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned} ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_G](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Gordon\_G](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_G)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5892 "2025-12-16T11:16:03Z")
Wordle 1,641 3/6 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE PRION SEGUE I got the same GxxxG a week ago and went with Prion. I’ll assume I considered carefully then, so will re-use. Suede was already-used and I thought of only one other word. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5893 "2025-12-16T12:04:53Z")
Wordle 1,641 4/6\* ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Rarer Messy Welts Segue Slapping letters see what sticks ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5894 "2025-12-16T12:32:21Z")
Wordle 1,641 2/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BUYER SEGUE (I almost went with TOQUE, just to insist on a Q) ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5895 "2025-12-16T12:44:21Z")
Wordle 1,641 4/6 🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STEAL PRICY HOUND SEGUE ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5896 "2025-12-16T13:15:24Z")
Wordle 1,641 3/6 🟦⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟦🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 GRANT LODGE SEGUE I don’t use past word lists, but I was pretty sure I remembered FUGUE being used a while back. But it sure took me a long time to come up with the only other possible word. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5897 "2025-12-16T15:49:08Z")
> **Wordle 1,641 3/6\* 12/16/2025** > > ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ > 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > DOD_G_Y → Carryover of the G is nice. Wasting a D isn’t. Well, A & E and two WoFcons to go with that G gives me > _G_AT_ES_ → I was worried for a second that it was a wasted guess. My mind wandered for a bit and then I saw a word that let me try to place the E and try another vowel as well, so I gave it a shot > **SEGUE** > > Turns out that birdie putt was the only nonbogus word left out of four. Scoredle also birdies the puzzle, but its second word (only one letter different from mine) doubles up on the known letter in a successful effort to place it. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5898 "2025-12-16T15:52:38Z")
Wordle 1,641 5/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART (six) SEVEN SEEDY SEIZE SEGUE ---
**Author:** ![MacDoc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/macdoc/32/18696_2.png) [@MacDoc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacDoc)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5899 "2025-12-16T16:19:53Z")
Wordle 1,6 **42** 3/6 🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 😇 no Ai 🦘 Start word pays off 🍻 ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/5900 "2025-12-16T18:20:54Z")
Wordle 1,641 4/6\* 🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STEAL SNORE SEIZE SEGUE [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451.md?page=294) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451.md?page=296)