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

Wordle 1,425 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
MOONY
GONZO
BONGO

Wordle 1,426 4/6
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quick solution :kangaroo: :yawning_face:

Wordle 1,425 4/6

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RADIO
LENTO
FUNGO
BONGO

I wanted BENTO at two, then I saw that I had a chance to use three WoFcons and did LENTO instead. BENTO would have given me a birdie.
(Which I might have gotten anyway if not for my damn blind spot for repeated vowels.)

Wordle 1,425 4/6*

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Summary

LEAST
COUCH
ROWDY
BONGO

GOING was gone.

Wordle 1425 5/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
BINGO
BONGO

Since the beginning of April, I’ve had seven 5s and two 6s. That’s more of each than I’d had in the preceding 10 months (6 and 1, respectively). Grumble, grumble.

Wordle 1,425 5/6

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steam
ripen
union
conch
bongo

Wordle 1,426 X/6

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RATIO
LASER
CAPER
MAKER
WAFER
GAZER

I pretty much knew I was doomed when I hit the trap. Even with sleuth words I don’t think I would have gotten it.

Wordle 1,426 3/6*

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CRANE
EARTH
EAGER

I normally try the Wordlebot-approved RESET when I get an answer to CRANE that could be The Trap, but the extra A had me thinking on my own without enough sleep. Only 80 out of 99 skill for EARTH (it preferred jumping head-first into The Trap with LATER), but there was only one reasonable guess for clue 3.

PsychoBunny Are you on the difficult setting…my answer different.

Wordle 1,426 X/6

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snare
reach
break
large
pager
wager

I blew it.

Wordle 1,426 4/6 5/15/2025

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BONGO β†’ G is nice. I really need some vowels, though - I can try A & E with two WoFcons via
GEATS β†’ Good choice on the vowels. L & R are left of the WoFcons, upon reflection I might have tried LAGER, but instead I worried about another E and went with
EAGLE β†’ which was an exceptionally good pickup and got me out of a tough trap, so the birdie pickup was easy
EAGER

This could have gone bad in a hurry. Scoredle finishes in five, and could taken a miss, given that there were at least three and maybe five possibles when it sank the bogey. Ironically, after my second guess, it would have picked the answer for a birdie, out of 13 nonbogus possibles.

I don’t strictly play hard mode but I didn’t feel like listing a hundred possibilities, adding up the frequency of each letter and coming up with sleuth words to hopefully get the answer. So I randomly tried consonants. If you are asking about the answer, I played standard Wordle and had the same answer as the rest here

EAGER

Wordle 1,426 6/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \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 R} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\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 G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \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 G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

Phew.

psychobunny and Gr8Kat didn’t get the answer, hence the X/6.
Hard mode would be shown with an asterisk eg, X/6*

Thanks my friend who plays also did not get it. Felt happy with a par. :kangaroo:

Wordle 1,426 X/6 β€” 2025-05-15 Thu
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND β€” It might be arear eager faker freak gazer grave graze hazer rager raker rarer raver rawer razer rewax wager waker waver waxer; and letters to eliminate are F G H K V W X Z
VUGHY β€” It might be eager rager wager
WAGER
RAGER β€” DAMMIT!!! poor process on my part! After VUGHY I should have worked to eliminate E R W

DAMMIT!!! I join @psychobunny and @Gr8Kat. Maybe also @MacDoc too? Our streaks end and we’re back to 0.

Beware the Ides of May.

Wordle 1,426 6/6*

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Splat
Annoy
Braid
March
Water
Eager

Blurf

Wordle 1,426 3/6

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SPACE
EARTH
EAGER

Wordle 1,426 5/6

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HEART
BREAD
RACER
LASER
EAGER

Wordle 1426 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
EAGER

Extremely lucky this morning, there were a lot of other possibilities, only a few of which I saw. Didn’t even think about there being a trap until I came here and saw the carnage.

Wordle 1,427 5/6
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Quick off the mark :kangaroo: :yawning_face: