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

Wordle 1,400 4/6 — 2025-04-19 Sat
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUNDpretty much only one word remains…
INBOX

Wordle 1,400 6/6

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react
young
ounce
drown
knoll
inbox

Wordle 1,400 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X} \\ \end{aligned}

Me too.

Wordle 1,400 3/6*

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Bonus
Ebony
Inbox

Wordle 1400 5/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
BONGO
INBOX

I guess it’s a word now.

Wordle 1,401 3/6
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Back in the saddle
after a bad night :+1: :kangaroo:

Wordle 1,400 4/6

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HEART
SPOIL
INGOT knowing there is no T, just trying to place I and O and test for N
INBOX could come up with no other word that fits

Wordle 1,400 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
BINGO
INBOX

I’ll take it.

Wordle 1,400 3/6*

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Summary

LEAST
BOUND
INBOX

Wordle 1,400 3/6

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YEAST (Need vowels.)
UNION (Looks good. ?N?OI is out, so IN?O? is our guy.)
INBOX (Only realistic choice.)

Wordle 1,400 4/6

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PAINT
HOUSE
MINOR
INBOX

Wordle 1,400 4/6

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ROAST
CLONE
ONION
INBOX

Doubling up on both my unplaced letters worked out. In fact, Scordle made all the exact same moves I did from my start word, so there’s that.

Wordle 1,401 4/6

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RATIO
LATCH
CAMPY
PATCH

No way was I going hard mode on this. After two I had BATCH, CATCH, HATCH, MATCH, PATCH and WATCH. I needed to check either C or H in first and at least two others and I got lucky.

Wordle 1,401 X/6

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Wordle 1,400 5/6* 4/19/2025

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DIRGE → Slow start. Can’t see a word with three WoFcons and either A or O, so I’ll have to try with two
HOIST → L & N left of the WoFcons. I see one word to try with L, so…
IGLOO → This one feels really slow. Halfway through and only two letters found. With N remaining, and it seems like no other vowels, I found a word with it and a couple other consonants
INDOW → Not that that’s really much of a word IMHO. SunWife gets the assist here because she looked over my shoulder and said
INBOX

This one was a bit of a grinder. Scoredle makes par, by the way, with all yellows until the final guess. Hope tomorrow’s feels better.

Wordle 1,401 3/6 — 2025-04-20 Sun
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LEAST
CRIMP
PATCH

Wordle 1,401 6/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ \end{aligned}

Phew indeed.

Wordle 1401 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
PATCH

Could’ve also been BATCH.
HATCH, MATCH, and WATCH had already been used, and CATCH was eliminated at 2. And ZATCH is only a word in James Thurber’s The Thirteen Clocks, so it (along with TODAL) won’t be Wordle solutions. :grin:

Wordle 1,401 4/6

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HEART
SHOAT
CATCH
PATCH

Wordle 1,402 5/6
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looked so tempting :zany_face::kangaroo: