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

Wordle 1,421 6/6* 5/10/2025

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TRIPE → Two common letters, not a bad start. Try O and a couple more WoFcons
STENO → Let’s see, try an A, put the ST at the end, add the last WoFcon, and it’s
LEAST → Uh oh, but I think I’m safe. Trust the B first
BEAST → Nope, gotta be F
FEAST → Whoops, forgot about the Y.
YEAST

I think I’m going to be way over the average today. Scoredle hits the trap but makes a par.

Wordle 1,422 5/6
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Congrats @kaylasdad99 !

For a new starting word, @Rebo and I are using LEAST. Maybe that one? We both got 2s today.

I already decided on RELAY (I like burning three vowels* on guess #1).

*I don’t care what anyone says; the letter Y meets all of the requirements for being included as a vowel everywhere I’ve ever seen it. So does the letter W, for that matter.

Oh that’s a good one. If mine is used then I might jump on your bandwagon.

Wordle 1,421 5/6

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AUDIT
GREAT
BEAST
LEAST
YEAST

Dang, I probably should haves stepped away from hard mode.
At least it wasn’t FEAST.

Wordle 1,422 4/6

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RATIO
SHONE
MODEL
DOWEL

Wordle 1,422 4/6 — 2025-05-11 Sun
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUNDIt might be dowel yodel
DOWELI won the coin toss

Wordle 1,422 6/6

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remit
snake
hello
elbow
vowel
dowel

Wordle 1,422 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,422 6/6

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Wordle 1,422 5/6

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AROSE
COMET
HONED
YODEL
DOWEL

Wordle 1,422 4/6

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HEART
CLOSE
MODEL
DOWEL
Woot! Streak hits 200!

Wordle 1,422 5/6*

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Tibia
Horse
Woven
Cowed
Dowel

Wordle 1,422 6/6

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RELAY (First time with my new word.)
LOUIE (Checked all the vowels.)
HOVEL (Well, at least they’re placed. Looks trap-like, but there aren’t that many ?O?EL words.)
MOTEL (I was inclined to guess BOWEL, but I opted to use a WoFcon. BOWEL and DOWEL are left.)
BOWEL (AAARGHH! Guessed wrong.)
DOWEL (From an ace to a double bogey. Sounds about right. Can’t have me getting a big head.)

Wordle 1,422 4/6*

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Summary

LEAST
CRUEL
VOWEL
DOWEL

Wordle 1,422 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
FOGEY
MODEL
DOWEL

Glad to see I wasn’t the only one having a problem with this one. I think it’s finally time to change my opening word, as this one is seemingly played out.

Wordle 1,422 5/6* 5/11/2025

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YEAST → A little less than I had hoped for. Add an O and the other three WoFcons to get
LONER → Good choice. Try L on the end, and… it looks a little trappish. What’s first?
HOVEL → Not that. Next?
MODEL → Glad for the D. Only one letter left
DOWEL

Scoredle finishes in four, even though it seems like I had a better second word than it did. Ah, well, it’s hard to beat the algorithm.

Wordle 1,422 3/6

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TRAIL
NOVEL
DOWEL

A trap, sort of, but not that many options on closer examination.
DOWEL seemed to be the best choice to eliminate the most words, and it turned out to be the solution!

Wordle 1,423 5/6
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ugh..self inflicted at 4am :yawning_face: :kangaroo: