# "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:** 91
**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:** [April 3, 2025, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1801 "2025-04-03T17:02:29Z")
Really bad allergies. Yesterday and last night was absolutely miserable. A bit tricky today. Several 5s, including mine. And Bob and Mahaloth got 2s. Nicely done! Sorry for your X, Mac. And your dead watch. That sucks. **Wordle 1,384 5/6 β€” 2025-04-03 Thu** β¬›πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨πŸŸ¨β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬› ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬›β¬› 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **LEAST** **CRIMP** **BOUND** β€” _It might be safer sarge saver sayer shear swear; so letters to eliminate are F G Y H W; and we know that S is the first letter; so can try SHOWY, or FOGGY_ **SHOWY** **SHEAR** ---
**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:** [April 3, 2025, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1802 "2025-04-03T17:14:08Z")
Wordle 1,384 4/6 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›πŸŸ¦πŸŸ§ πŸŸ§β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 OPIUM LATER SWEAR SHEAR OPIUM, despite today’s whiff, is historically one of my stronger starting words. Whenever one of those mid-tier consonants hits, it’s always very helpful. Not this time. Oh well, at least it eliminated three vowels and allowed me to plod to a par, for which it seems I should be happy today. ---
**Author:** ![Jegpeg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jegpeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jegpeg)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1803 "2025-04-04T00:04:33Z")
Wordle 1385, End of my 110 game streak, hard mode hurts at times. Wordle 1,385 X/6\* 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEANT: My standard Starting word SWIRL: wanted to try out R,S and another vowel at this stage it was looking good GRILL: 4 possible answers with only 3 guesses left. I thought Frill and Drill were more common words and therefore most likely. Living in the UK I then guessed Brill, thinking it more common than Krill alas was incorrect. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1804 "2025-04-04T00:24:09Z")
My sympathy tho my streak was a third of yours and it was my own fault. _Tomorrow is another day_ ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1805 "2025-04-04T04:52:37Z")
Wordle 1,385 5/6 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO LINER GRILL FATED KRILL After three I saw DRILL, FRILL and KRILL but I made myself go through the alphabet and saw TRILL so I went with a sleuth word. I now see that I had already eliminated the T so I could have solved it in hard mode if I had paid attention. Very sloppy. Still a tough trap. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1806 "2025-04-04T07:02:39Z")
Wordle 1,385 6/6 ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![Gr8Kat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gr8kat/32/18668_2.png) [@Gr8Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gr8Kat)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1807 "2025-04-04T08:05:01Z")
Wordle 1,385 5/6 β¬›β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬› πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›πŸŸ¨ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 stare rowdy prims brink krill ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1808 "2025-04-04T09:59:16Z")
Wordle 1,385 6/6\* \begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,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 S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ \end{aligned} Few. Fortunately, at guess 6 there was no other option. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1809 "2025-04-04T11:10:44Z")
Wordle 1385 6/6 - joining the crowd here! ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SLANT CHORE DRILL GRILL FRILL KRILL MFing trap. And while I had the solution down from the get-go (well, after 2 anyway) as one of the possibilities, I thought it was the most obscure of them and least likely to be on the list. I apparently had plenty of company in thinking that. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1810 "2025-04-04T11:14:00Z")
Wordle 1,385 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEART GROIN PRICY GRILL what to do here? Decided to go with the oddest word KRILL son of a gun it paid off ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1811 "2025-04-04T12:34:15Z")
Wordle 1,385 X/6 β¬›β¬›πŸŸ¨β¬›πŸŸ© β¬›β¬›πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© CORAL SPINE DRILL GRILL FRILL TRILL I thought I had enough guesses left to cover the possible first letters, but forgot about krill. Should have used my fourth guess to try to eliminate some consonants. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1812 "2025-04-04T13:54:36Z")
**Wordle 1,385 5/6 β€” 2025-04-05 Fri** πŸŸ¨β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©β¬›β¬› ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ β¬›πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ©πŸŸ© 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 **LEAST** **CRIMP** β€” _It might be drill drily frill grill krill; so eliminate D Y F G K; so try FOGGY_ **FOGGY** **DRILL** **KRILL** ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1813 "2025-04-04T14:06:10Z")
A much better start to a new run - even a legit shot at two Wordle 1,386 3/6 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1814 "2025-04-04T14:48:27Z")
> **Wordle 1,385 5/6\* 4/4/2025** > > ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 > 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ > ⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ > ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 > 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > > SHEA_R_ β†’ Not much of a start, but some good eliminations. I tried to get a word with O, U and two more WoFcons but was unsuccessful. So I figured I’d try > _R_OUND β†’ And _that_ went nowhere. Sheesh. Tried to think of words with I and Y here, and was, again, unsuccessful. Also couldn’t shoehorn an N in there as the last WoFcon, but did see > F_L_ **I** _R_T β†’ So ?RIL? or ?RI?L, perhaps a pair of Ls? In which case, I could try the less-common KRILL or perhaps > G **RILL** β†’ And looking at how bad this could have been, I’m really happy for how my second and third guesses were made > **KRILL** > > Scoredle falls into the trap with its third guess, and goes the distance with one valid word still in play. Seemed a very unlucky day for me for a while, then suddenly turned a lot better. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1815 "2025-04-04T14:58:27Z")
Wordle 1,385 4/6\* 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 > **Summary** > > I liked this one! Pretty tough. > > LEAST > MILKY > BLINK > KRILL > > ETA: It looks like i avoided the trap with my second guess. Lucky! ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1816 "2025-04-04T15:33:12Z")
Wordle 1,385 6/6 ⬜🟧⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟧⬜⬜ ⬜🟧🟧🟧🟧 ⬜🟧🟧🟧🟧 ⬜🟧🟧🟧🟧 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 CRANE HOIST FRILL DRILL GRILL - I was genuinely shocked when this wasn’t it KRILL - a pretty obscure word for many A tough one for many. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1817 "2025-04-04T15:54:55Z")
Wordle 1,385 6/6 πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ¦β¬›β¬›β¬› β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§ β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§ β¬›πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§πŸŸ§ 🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧 LOUPE SLANT DRILL GRILL FRILL KRILL The even more obscure BRILL was still out there. I stubbornly stayed in hard mode and it almost killed me. My sympathies for the lost streaks today. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1818 "2025-04-04T16:04:27Z")
Wordle 1,385 5/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 YEAST (Whiff.) UNION (A single, placed I. Fuck.) GRILL (Not bad, but I’m gonna use a sleuth word and eat the bogie.) FAKED (So I get to keep my streak.) KRILL (Woulda been my third guess. So I’ve got that going for me.) ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1819 "2025-04-05T04:41:09Z")
Wordle 1,386 4/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RATIO SHOAL COCOA FOAMY ---
**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:** [April 5, 2025, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/1820 "2025-04-05T05:48:44Z")
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