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

Wordle 1,404 4/6

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HEART
SLIDE
PHONE knowing no H, just testing O and N
OZONE lucky I couldn’t think of another word

Wordle 1404 3/6

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SLANT
GRODY
OZONE

PHONE had already been used.

I may drop out of this thread before too long. Gotta admit that after >3 years and 1182 games played, I’m starting to lose interest.

Wordle 1,404 4/6 — 2025-04-23 Wed
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
OZONEwhich is pretty much all it could be

Understandable. I missed many games then came back after a long break. I’m only at 949 games. I think I was one of the firsts ever in this thread, over 3 years ago. I’ll keep playing, for a while.

Added — I found it. I knew I had the link in my Wordle notes. It was back on Christmas Eve, 2021. @Briny_Deep first posted about the game, then @Icarus posted second and I was third. That game number was Wordle 188. Two days later I used spoiler tags for the first time ever on this board.

"Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 1) - #3 by Bullitt

"Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 1) - #35 by Bullitt

Wordle 1,404 4/6

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CAUSE
POINT
DRONE
OZONE

Wordle 1,404 4/6* 4/23/2025

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ARTSY → Whiff. Upon reflection, I could have gone NOVEL here, but what I ended up trying was
LIVEN → which livened things up a bit, and then I saw a word that would get me the last two vowels, so I had to give it a go
OUNCE → at which point I had to play around with trying things wtih the N in second or fourth to eventually get
OZONE

Scoredle has a spot of bad luck and falls into the (small) trap on 3, ending with a bogey. I had the luck to place the first letter with guess #3, which kept me out of the same trap (and in fact the answer was the only possible guess left).

Wordle 1,404 4/6*

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Wow! This was hard, even with a little help from the typo on my starter word, which is LEAST At least (ha!) it told me there was no double E.

LEASE
TRIPE
FUDGE
OZONE

Wordle 1,404 6/6

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YEAST
LOUIE
GNOME (It can be DRONE or OZONE. I’m going with the one that has an extra WoFcon. If it doesn’t work out, at least I still make par.)
DRONE (Forgot that PHONE is still out there. PHONE is still more likely.)
PHONE (Fuck me.)
OZONE (OKAY! SO I DOUBLE BOGEYED! AT LEAST I KEPT MY two day STREAK ALIVE!

SHUT UP!)

Wordle 1,404 3/6

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CRANE
HOISE - This was a misspelling of ‘hoist’. It’s apparently an archaic form of ‘hoist’ and means the same thing.
OZONE

Wordle 1,405 3/6

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CLAIM
ROSIN
GENIE

Struggled with this -
partner solved it
Wordle 1,405 5/6
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Wordle 1,405 3/6

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RATIO
FELID
GENIE

Took me forever to see the answer.

Wordle 1,405 4/6 — 2025-04-24 Thu
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
GENIEwhich is pretty much all it could be; feign and neigh had already been used

Wordle 1,405 6/6*

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

Me too. I definitely will when my start word comes up and i get a 1 !!

Wordle 1,405 3/6

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TRONE
SINCE
GENIE

Starting with I yielded nothing; once __NIE fell into place, the answer was obvious.

Wordle 1,405 4/6*

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Arson
Niche
Twine
Genie

Wordle 1,405 3/6

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HEART
BEGIN
GENIE

Wordle 1405 5/6

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SLANT
CHORE
KNIFE
NUDIE
GENIE

I didn’t really think guess #4 would be the solution, but I was running out of ideas.

Yeah, that’s one thing I’m trying to hang in there for. Also, eventually they have to start re-using previous solutions. I want to see that.

Zing…good start to the day.
Wordle 1,406 3/6
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Our start words are similar. Let’s see who gets the 1 first! If it’s me, then I’ll start using your start word.