# "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:** 314
**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:** [January 6, 2026, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6261 "2026-01-06T17:44:24Z")
Wordle 1,662 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟦⬛ ⬛🟧⬛⬛🟧 🟦🟧🟦⬛🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 WRITE SALON DOUGH POOCH OOMPH Seriously? ---
**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:** [January 6, 2026, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6262 "2026-01-06T17:44:27Z")
Wordle 1,662 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BUYER AVOID LOTTO NOHOW OOMPH ---
**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:** [January 7, 2026, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6263 "2026-01-07T04:45:14Z")
Wordle 1,663 4/6 **WEDNESDAY** 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AUDIO FRAME PEACH PECAN ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6264 "2026-01-07T06:41:59Z")
Wordle 1,663 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO SHALE ANNEX BEGAN PECAN ---
**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:** [January 7, 2026, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6265 "2026-01-07T09:18:48Z")
Wordle 1,663 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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ \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:** [January 7, 2026, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6266 "2026-01-07T10:36:11Z")
Wordle 1,663 3/6 WEDNESDAY ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE WRONG PECAN Uh oh. The --y-y start is what led me to a Triple Bogey back on #1614. It seems Wrong to waste a slot on O (thinking only of Oaken); I’d much rather ask WARNG or such to locate the A, but Warng isn’t a word. This is a disadvantage of Slate – A in 3rd position seems very useful in forming sleuth words. Pecan is a Wardle word so the percentage play: The only other word I could think of was Naked, a non-Wardle word. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6267 "2026-01-07T11:49:46Z")
Wordle 1663 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE PECAN ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6268 "2026-01-07T11:58:20Z")
> [@Carnacki](#): > > I made a post, but it looked like I couldn’t figure out the spoilers. Deleted. Sorry if I spoiled for anyone! Welcome to the Wordle thread, and thanks for deleting quickly! Doing the spoiler is easy, just not obvious at first glance. You highlight the text you want to hide, then you click on the black circle in the upper right with the + sign in it, and then scroll _aaaallll_ the way down to ‘Blur Spoiler’ and click on that. The text you highlighted should be blurred. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2026, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6269 "2026-01-07T12:40:15Z")
Wordle 1,663 3/6 ⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ 🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STEAL CEDAR PECAN ---
**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:** [January 7, 2026, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6270 "2026-01-07T14:20:43Z")
Wordle 1,6 **64** 2/6 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🦅 🎇 no Ai 🦘 A nice treat on a rainy night. ---
**Author:** ![Carnacki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5e925/32.png) [@Carnacki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carnacki)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6271 "2026-01-07T15:29:41Z")
Thank you so much! I had written a short diatribe yesterday about how much I hated the word - probably a good thing that one got deleted. 🙂 WORSE DEITY PENAL PECAN ---
**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:** [January 7, 2026, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6272 "2026-01-07T15:43:02Z")
Wordle 1,663 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BUYER GEOID WEAVE PENAL PECAN ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6273 "2026-01-07T15:47:51Z")
> **Wordle 1,663 3/6\* 1/7/2026** > > ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ > 🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > OOM_P_H → Huh. E, A and two WoFcons. SPEAR? NEAPS? LAPSE? I finally settled on > **PE** _A_RL → Thought about PENTA for a sec then decided on > **PECAN** > > Second guess was 27/1026, so about 97% percentile in terms of skill, and turned out lucky as well. My first thought for the third guess is a complete non-word, so it looks like I had a tap-in for birdie, which is nice. Scoredle places only one letter with its second guess, then tries to place another by duping it for its third guess, leaving it with a tap-in par. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2026, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6274 "2026-01-07T15:48:02Z")
Wordle 1,663 3/6 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART LEGAL PECAN ---
**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:** [January 7, 2026, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6275 "2026-01-07T16:10:43Z")
> [@MacDoc](#): > > Wordle 1,6 **64** 2/6 > 🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🦅 🎇 no Ai 🦘 > A nice treat on a rainy night. _Sometimes it’s better to be lucky, than good!_ • **Wordle 1,664 2/6 — 2026-01-08 Thu** 🟨🟨⬛🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 {Day 25 of 30 from the Philippines} • _ **WOO-HOO!!** _ ---
**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:** [January 7, 2026, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6276 "2026-01-07T16:23:07Z")
Wordle 1,663 3/6 🟦⬜🟦🟦🟦 ⬜🟦🟦🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE - wow, this only leaveS a couple of words OCEAN - well, crap PECAN ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6277 "2026-01-07T16:34:08Z")
> [@Carnacki](#): > > Thank you so much! I had written a short diatribe yesterday about how much I hated the word - probably a good thing that one got deleted. 🙂 Looks like you’ve figured out the spoiler! One quirk: you can spoiler part of a paragraph, or you can spoiler a paragraph or a whole sequence of paragraphs with a single spoiler tag. But if you spoiler one paragraph and part of another, you need to do two separate spoilers for that. Yeah, once I figured out yesterday’s solution, I figured some people would be unhappy with it. Well, HUMPH\*, I say to that! 😉 \*The solution to Wordle #3. ---
**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:** [January 7, 2026, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6278 "2026-01-07T16:39:32Z")
Wordle 1,663 2/6\* ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STEAL PECAN Wordlebot says I had 15 answers after my first guess, so this is a pretty lucky guess! (Although quite a few were on the used word list.) ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6279 "2026-01-08T05:11:21Z")
Wordle 1,664 3/6 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2026, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/6280 "2026-01-08T05:11:40Z")
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