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

Wordle 1,408 5/6

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CRANE - ugh
HOIST - from bad to worse
QUELL
WEEPY
WEEDY

Wordle 1,408 4/6* 4/27/2025

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CLASH → Whiff. Last three WoFcons plus O & E, shake up and find a really weird word
RONTE → Oh, duh, should have been TENOR. Not much out of it, except for eliminations. Looks like this may be a Y-terminal word, so I’ll try to place the E - maybe in second if there’s a double letter, but I need to try a lot of consonants
WEDGY → Good call on the W! and the D is implicitly placed too, so there was a double letter, just a vowel instead
WEEDY
Words with no WoFcon
scare me; I find them harder to visualize. Scoredle, less obsessed about WoFcons, gets a better second guess, also finishes with par.

Wordle 1,408 5/6*

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I played this badly.

Summary

LEAST
DECOR
HEDGE
KEYED
WEEDY

Wordle 1,409 5/6

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RATIO
LUNES
GUMMY
MUMMY
DUMMY

Wordle 1,409 6/6

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Wordle 1,409 4/6 — 2025-04-28 Mon
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
DUMMY

Wordle 1,409 4/6

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brain
stamp
cloud
dummy

Wordle 1,409 3/6*

\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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

Wow. Spent ages after the first guess trying to think of a word that would
eliminate more vowels.. but couldn’t find one, so i reluctantly settled on
MUDDY. Very lucky.

Wordle 1,409 4/6

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LONER
WAIST
BUMPY
DUMMY

Not often does one start the game with 10 blank squares.
There were lots of _U__Y possibilities left. I think I did well to find a word that eliminated most of them to save par, though I did get a bit lucky that it wasn’t GUMMY or YUMMY.

Wordle 1,409 5/6*

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Amass
Mirth
Gnome
Plump
Dummy

Not a bad hand with that haphazard start word

Wordle 1,409 4/6

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HEART
SPOIL
DUNGY
DUMMY

Wordle 1409 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
DUMMY

Not bad, considering I got blanked on my first two guesses. Fortunately #3 was close enough that #4 was a tap-in for the par.

LOUIS is a valid guess that hits the three vowels not in your starting word, and picks off a couple of WofCons to boot.

Yesterday’s (1408):

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SLANT
BLASE
CLASP
CLASH

Bad second guess - it’s what I get for trying to solve it in the middle of the night.

Wordle 1,409 6/6*

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LEAST
CURIO
PUPPY
BUNNY
JUMPY
DUMMY

Wordle 1,409 4/6

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YEAST
IDYLL
ROWDY
DUMMY

Wordle 1,410 3/6
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Sweet way to start
Canadian Election Day :smiling_cat_with_heart_eyes:

I play in hard mode, so it’d have to have a D in it.

Wordle 1,409 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
GUMMY
YUMMY
DUMMY

I’ve never had both opening words reveal nada.

Wordle 1,409 5/6* 4/28/2025

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WEEDY → The second E is a waste but the D is a nice pickup, and a placed terminal Y is nice to see. Really need good luck with vowels here
DIARY → And I have none, though the placed D is nice. A lot of optionss here have double letters before the Y; I tried to find one that didn’t
DUCHY → with no success. DUSKY and DUSTY were both out there still; I saw neither. I should have tried one before trying
DULLY → which I guessed due to my WoFcon obsession, which led me immediately to
DUMMY

A 1-in-4 chance of a loss after the third guess due to a serious misplay? I guess I’ll take the bogey. Scoredle was much more methodical, also with a 5 but would have finished with a solve even in the worst case.

Wordle 1,410 4/6

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SCALE
LOTUS
MILKS
BLISS

Wordle 1,410 3/6

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RATIO
SHINE
BLISS

Surprisingly not a lot of options after guess two.