# "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:** 466
**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:** [July 14, 2026, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9301 "2026-07-14T15:32:06Z")
Wordle 1,851 4/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬› πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦ πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§β¬› 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 FLUSH STARE STEAM STEAK Hit on the second of three STEA\_ choices. ---
**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:** [July 14, 2026, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9302 "2026-07-14T15:52:15Z")
Wordle 1,851 4/6 ⬜⬜🟦⬜🟦 ⬜⬜⬜🟦🟦 🟧🟧🟧🟧⬜ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE HOIST STEAM STEAK ---
**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:** [July 14, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9303 "2026-07-14T18:51:56Z")
Wordle 1,8 **52** 3/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🐦 🀷 Ai assisted 🦘 ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9304 "2026-07-15T05:24:57Z")
Wordle 1,852 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO SHALE FUNKY APHID PSHAW This is not a real word. I had to eliminate everything else just to find it. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9305 "2026-07-15T05:54:37Z")
Wordle 1,852 4/6 WEDNESDAY 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AUDIO FRAME CANAL PSHAW Thankfully I know this one from Scrabble, as it was the only possibility, I think ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9306 "2026-07-15T07:03:54Z")
**Wordle 1,852 5/6 β€” 2026-07-15 Wed** πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **STARE** **DOILY** **PUNCH** **PASHA** **PSHAW** ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9307 "2026-07-15T08:06:44Z")
Wordle 1,852 4/6\* \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[silver,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 M}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\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 E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\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 D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} Wasn’t expecting it to be a real word, but could not fit anything else in… ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9308 "2026-07-15T10:55:57Z")
Wordle 1852 4/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT AROSE WASPY PSHAW Does anyone even use this expression anymore? Even fifty years or so ago, AFAICT β€œOh, pshaw!” wasn’t used by anyone besides little old ladies in small towns, and that generation of small-town little old ladies is now comfortably ensconced in rural cemeteries. I’d say it’s pretty much fallen out of the language. It certainly wasn’t a word I was expecting. Fortunately my guess at 3 gave me the P and W, and with only 3 combinations for where the A and S could be to fit the P and W into, I tripped over it fairly quickly. I’m curious about whether this was on Wardle’s original list of solutions, or whether this was a NYT add - there’ve been over three dozen of those so far, including LORIS and KEFIR. (But not OVATE, that’s from Wardle.) ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9309 "2026-07-15T12:03:40Z")
Wordle 1,852 3/6\* β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Nadir Phase Pshaw ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9310 "2026-07-15T12:42:58Z")
Wordle 1,852 4/6\* 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STEAL OSCAR ASSAY PSHAW ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9311 "2026-07-15T13:53:09Z")
Wordle 1,852 5/6 β€” _NYT Average 4.7_ πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ©β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ¨πŸŸ©β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLATE BASIN OSCAR ASWAY PSHAW This one baked my noodle a bit. I wasn’t even sure if PSHAW was a formal word or one that Wordle deems β€œunlikely”, but it was all that would fit. Also, in the bot analysis, it said there was only 1 solution left after I guessed BASIN. ASWAY’s an unlikely word, but PSHAW’s not? _Siiiiigh._ ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9312 "2026-07-15T15:05:15Z")
Wordle 1,852 3/6 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART SHOAL PSHAW ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9313 "2026-07-15T15:06:16Z")
Wordle 1,852 3/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEAST POUCH PSHAW ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2026, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9314 "2026-07-15T15:11:49Z")
> **Wordle 1,852 3/6\* 7/15/2026** > > 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ > 🟨⬜⬜🟩🟨 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > _S_TE **A** K β†’ Placed A, nice. Also at least one S, nice. I think we had ASSAY recently, so that’s not a target. I noodled around for a while and tried to find a word, bogus or not, with a good variety of letters, and landed on > _H_OR **A** _S_ β†’ Now I’m confused. SH go together well… but right before the A??? or HS before the A? or SAH ending? I got nothin’. Slept on it, then tried to just start plugging letters in, starting with ?SHA?. Led with a vowel, then tried anything at the end. Wasn’t until I tried USHAW that I saw it > **PSHAW** > > For a birdie, this was pretty frustrating. My followup was below the median (not in the first 120 of 239), but it gave me a tap-in for birdie, so rather lucky I guess? Scoredle also gets a birdie with a valid tap-in out of 2 possibles, so there’s just something about STEAL that makes this an β€œeasy” puzzle (and not about SLATE, as Scoredle takes a bogey-five from that start). ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9315 "2026-07-15T15:16:29Z")
Wordle 1,852 5/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WordleBot Skill 73/99 Luck 44/99 ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9316 "2026-07-15T15:23:59Z")
Wordle 1,852 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 YODEL ASTIR PSHAW As I expected, there were a lot of complaints over this word. But after ASTIR, there really wasn’t anything left. ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9317 "2026-07-15T15:56:01Z")
Wordle 1,852 4/6 ⬜⬜🟦⬜⬜ 🟦⬜⬜🟦⬜ 🟦🟦⬜🟧⬜ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE HOIST SHOAL - stupid guess PSHAW ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9318 "2026-07-15T18:27:50Z")
Wordle 1,8 **53** 4/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 πŸ€ͺ Ai assist 🀷 🦘 ---
**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:** [July 15, 2026, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9319 "2026-07-15T19:05:42Z")
Wordle 1,852 5/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬› πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬› πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ¦ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 GUILT SNARE WASHY AWASH PSHAW A whole lotta blue today! > [@psychobunny](#): > > I had to eliminate everything else just to find it. I eliminated everything else and _still_ didn’t find it, instead very confidently placing an A where I already knew it didn’t go. πŸ€¦πŸΌβ€β™‚οΈ ---
**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:** [July 16, 2026, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/9320 "2026-07-16T01:39:04Z")
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