"Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 3)

Wordle 1,397 4/6*

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Gusty
Learn
Molar
Moral

Wordle 1,397 3/6* 4/16/2025

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ASHEN → L, R & T remain of WoFcons, I can pair them with an O and get
ROTAL → Ooh. ?ORAL, I think we already had CORAL, so let’s try
MORAL

Great second guess makes it a tap-in for birdie. (I was right about the 50-50, right?) Scoredle also gets it in three, but has a much harder putt to make - about 1 in 5 or 6, it looks like.

Wordle 1,397 5/6*

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Summary

LEAST
ALIGN
POLAR
CORAL
MORAL

Wordle 1,397 3/6

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YEAST (Look for vowels.)
AVOID (AUO?? yields nothing useful to me. Forget about using a U; ?A?O? is useless.
Try ?O?A?.)
MORAL (Bingo.)

Wordle 1,397 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
POLAR
MORAL

Thanks. Now I’ve got Paul McCartney’s voice ringing in my ear…

That was a quick bingo. Nicely done!

Wordle 1,397 6/6

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haste
brawn
polar
royal
coral
moral

Wordle 1,397 4/6

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POISE
LOATH
FOCAL
MORAL

Might have scored the birdie if I’d thought to go for another WoFcon. Then again, I might have gone with CORAL or MOLAR and ended up with par anyway. Or ROYAL and then CORAL for a bogey.

Nothing like overthinking things after the fact!

Wordle 1,398 3/6

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BRAID
SEWED
STOOD

Wordle 1,398 X/6

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RATIO
THOSE
STOUT
STOCK
STOMP
STOOL

I probably should have abandoned hard mode. I wasn’t in the mood to think.

Wordle 1,398 4/6 — 2025-04-17 Thu
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
STOOD

Wordle 1,398 4/6*

\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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,398 4/6*

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Whirl
Knave
Spout
Stood

Wordle 1398 4/6

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SLANT
STREP
STUCK
STOOD

Wordle 1,398 5/6

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HEART
STOIC
STOOP
STOOL
STOOD

Wordle 1,399 4/6
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Was never getting a three on that one. :zany_face: :sleeping_face: :kangaroo:

Wordle 1,398 3/6*

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Summary

LEAST
DUSTY
STOOD

Wordle 1,398 5/6

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Bah. Thought I’d get it in four, max.

CRANE
HOIST
STOOP
STOOL
STOOD

Wordle 1,398 3/6* 4/17/2025

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MORAL → That O, an E, and three remaining WoFcons adds up to
STONE → Uh oh. STOCK? STOUT? I think I’ll try it with a double O first, could be STOOP or
STOOD
STOIC
was also a possible for that third guess, so my birdie quite lucky. Scoredle, amazingly, gets letters 1-3-4 on its second guess, along with the second letter at the end, then gets the birdie on a fifty-fifty. Impressive play by the algorithm.