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

Wordle 1,424 4/6

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CAMEO
LEARN
SHARE
AWARE

Wordle 1,424 5/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \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 R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Q} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,424 4/6 — 2025-05-13 Tue
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
AWARE

Wordle 1424 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
AWARE

Wordle 1,424 4/6

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HEART
SPARE
FLARE
AWARE

Wordle 1,424 3/6

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AUDIO
ASTER
AWARE

Wordle 1,424 4/6

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CRANE
STARE
FLARE
AWARE

Wordle 1,424 5/6

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YEAST (Sorry, I forgot to use my new word today.)
QUAKE (Partly checking vowels: mostly trying to place the E.)
PLANE (Getting serious about WoFcons. Also getting nervous.)
GRAVE (FINALLY! A non-vowel! And R?A?E doesn’t do anything, so ??ARE it is!)
AWARE (Toldja.)

Wordle 1,424 5/6* 5/13/2025

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BICEP → About what I expected. Add an A, and three WoFcons to get one really good first guess second
SLATE → This is looking subtly trappish. Try something with an R or an N next? (If C weren’t already gone, would try CRANE…)
FRAME → R was a good choice, but now I’m stumped. I slept on it, then started throwing letters up there, and got a hit on
WHARE → which made it obvious it was
AWARE

It’s Scoredle’s day - a birdie from my start, and would have saved par after my third guess. I really needed to do a better job of repeating vowels there to see what the eventual answer was.

Wordle 1,424 3/6

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RAISE
GLARE
AWARE

There are surprisingly few __ARE words once S and L are off the table. One, in fact.

Wordle 1,424 3/6*

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Summary

LEAST
GRAVE
AWARE

Wordle 1,425 4/6
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a mere 9 hours late :yawning_face: :kangaroo:

Wordle 1,424 5/6

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shoed
merit
afire
azure
aware

Wordle 1,425 3/6

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RATIO
CONDO
BONGO

Wordle 1,425 3/6*

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Debut
Bingo
Bongo

Wordle 1,425 4/6*

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

Wordle 1,425 3/6

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AUDIO
HELLO
BONGO

Wordle 1,425 4/6 — 2025-05-14 Wed
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
BONGO

Wordle 1,425 4/6

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RELAY (Vowel hunt.)
UNION (Possibly only one vowel? Let’s try more WoFcons.)
THONG (That G looks intriguing. If I double up on the O, at least I can place it.)
BONGO (Isn’t that just the way? The solution is always the last word you try.)

Wordle 1,425 5/6* 5/14/2025

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AWARE → Whiff. O, I and three WoFcons, coming up
TOILS → One stinkin’ O. Better try a U. If I throw in an N… uh, oh, the ?OUND trap might be here, and I’ve only KOed three of the eight words of that trap, meaning my next guess had better use at least two of BFHMP. So I can test two of those and the U with
POUCH → And… that wasn’t the trap. Oh, well. Turns out MOOCH would have been a better word. Ooh, MOMMY is still out there as well, I’d better check at least one M, but also a second O, and some other consonant as well, so
MOODY → It’s time to try that N. I’m getting rather nervous, but my possibles have to be shrinking by now
BONGO
GONZO and BOFFO
(both a bit slangy) were still on the table. Seems like everything I did ended up being the worst move for that stage. Scoredle finishes with a par; I suspect my obsession with one particular trap sealed my bogey doom.