# "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:** 414
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8261 "2026-05-12T04:13:33Z")
Wordle 1,788 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO SHORE CLOMP CLOCK ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8262 "2026-05-12T04:19:29Z")
Wordle 1,788 6/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot sez.. Skill 81/99 Luck 24/99 Adieu Stony Brook Plock (uh-oh) Flock (oh no) Clock (phew!) ---
**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:** [May 12, 2026, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8263 "2026-05-12T05:18:32Z")
Wordle 1,788 4/6 TUESDAY ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AUDIO POESY CLOTH CLOCK ---
**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:** [May 12, 2026, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8264 "2026-05-12T08:00:21Z")
Wordle 1,788 6/6\* \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} ---
**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:** [May 12, 2026, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8265 "2026-05-12T08:21:31Z")
**Wordle 1,788 4/6 β€” 2026-05-12 Tue** ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **STARE** **DOILY** **PUNCH** **CLOCK** ---
**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:** [May 12, 2026, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8266 "2026-05-12T11:18:47Z")
> [@puzzlegal](#): > > How did you lose your streak? Monday morning, I opened Wordle, and instead of the usual β€œGo ahead, add another day to your _X_ day streak,” it said, β€œGet six chances to guess a five-letter word,” which is the β€œOh-shit-I-forgot-to-play-yesterday” phrase. So I told my phone I was in Samoa and was able to play Sunday’s game. Then, when I switched back to my actual time zone, I was greeted with β€œGo ahead, add another day to your **1-day** streak. I don’t have any insight into the programming behind this. It is what it is. Anywhoo… Wordle 1,788 4/6 β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬›β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 GLARE FLINT CLOUD CLOCK Thought I had pulled off the birdie. Double C was not on my Bingo card today. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8267 "2026-05-12T11:55:26Z")
Wordle 1,788 4/6 πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE TOILS CLOUD CLOCK After my first two guesses, i thought there were three possible words: cloud, clock, and clomp. None of those words would help me guess between the others, and i debated going for the certain 4 by playing a word with unique letters from at least two of them. Maybe puked. But wordlebot scores me higher if i take a stab at a possible word, and the expected value of the number of guesses is the same either way. Anyway, i scored par. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2026, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8268 "2026-05-12T11:55:53Z")
Wordle 1,788 3/6 πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CRANE CLOUD CLOCK ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8269 "2026-05-12T12:53:05Z")
Wordle 1,788 4/6 β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 45th Sea of Greens SLATE PLUMB CLING CLOCK ---
**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:** [May 12, 2026, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8270 "2026-05-12T14:05:33Z")
Wordle 1,788 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART SPOIL CLOCK ---
**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:** [May 12, 2026, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8271 "2026-05-12T14:41:16Z")
Wordle 1,788 4/6 🟧⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟦⬜⬜⬜ 🟧🟧🟧⬜⬜ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE HOIST CLOUD CLOCK ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8272 "2026-05-12T14:57:46Z")
> **Wordle 1,788 5/6\* 5/12/2026** > > ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ > ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ > ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ > ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > NEW_L_Y β†’ Well, that’s something. Follow up with O, A and two of the last three WoFcons > S_OL_AR β†’ That’s a little help. T is still out there. I should try either U or I, and the first thing I see that fits well is > F **LO** UT β†’ So is a second O more likely than an I? Or is it neither? I coult try a -CK ending but I’d like to cover the double-O possibility > G **LO** OM β†’ Darn, did I miss the call on that one. OK, what comes before -LOCK? > **CLOCK** > BLOCK (and the bogus PLOCK) were still out there, so I could have gone down with some bad luck. Could have avoided it if I had used the first letter of the valid one as the first letter on the previous guess. Still OK with the bogey. Scoredle liked my followup so much it made the same one, and thanks to it spotting that the solution’s first letter is better to guess with the third than the 8/40-but-off-by-only-one-letter guess that I made, it fills the trap but still ends up with a bogey of it’s own, leaving the key ending for the fifth guess. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2026, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8273 "2026-05-12T15:22:38Z")
Wordle 1,788 4/6\* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STEAL LYRIC GULCH CLOCK ---
**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:** [May 12, 2026, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8274 "2026-05-12T15:56:47Z")
Wordle 1,788 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 YODEL SALON FLOUR CLOCK ---
**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:** [May 12, 2026, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8275 "2026-05-12T19:25:40Z")
Wordle 1,788 3/6\* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Ensue Party Clock ---
**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:** [May 12, 2026, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8276 "2026-05-12T22:28:50Z")
Wordle 1,7 **89** 5/6 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸ™„ no Ai 🦘 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2026, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8277 "2026-05-12T23:45:31Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > Monday morning, I opened Wordle, and instead of the usual β€œGo ahead, add another day to your _X_ day streak,” it said, β€œGet six chances to guess a five-letter word,” which is the β€œOh-shit-I-forgot-to-play-yesterday” phrase. > > So I told my phone I was in Samoa and was able to play Sunday’s game. Then, when I switched back to my actual time zone, I was greeted with β€œGo ahead, add another day to your **1-day** streak. Yeah, AFAICT once you open Wordle, it’s too late to change the time zone. The one time I did it, I remembered I’d missed playing the previous day before opening Wordle, and was able to change the time zone first. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8278 "2026-05-13T03:23:27Z")
Wordle 1,789 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot sez… Skill 89/99 Luck 53/99 Adieu Stony Dowry Dowdy ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2026, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8279 "2026-05-13T04:35:05Z")
Wordle 1,789 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO SHONE COULD DOWDY ---
**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:** [May 13, 2026, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/8280 "2026-05-13T06:00:13Z")
Wordle 1,789 6/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AUDIO DOPER DOLLY DOTTY DOOZY DOWDY Whew! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451.md?page=413) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451.md?page=415)