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

Wordle 1,441 3/6

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HEART
SPOIL
IDIOM

Wordle 1,441 3/6

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RELAY (Whiff. Look for vowels.)
ODIUM (About as good non-eagle as I could have tried.)
IDIOM (A birdie will do.)

Wordle 1,441 4/6* 5/30/2025

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QUASH → Whiff. Try O & E and three WoFcons… hmmm, better make it I & E (I didn’t see TONER), so
LITER → Well, that’s… something. Better try something with O and that last N… considered ONION for a bit but figured I should try something with more varied consonants
BOING → Still no consonants… but figured it’s time to double up on that I, and the ONION I had been considering led me to see
IDIOM

Third guess was the lucky one - the par putt was a tap-in. Scoredle gets rather unlucky with its choices and goes the distance, making the wrong guess on a 50-50 for bogey.

Wordle 1,441 3/6

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CRANE - swing and a miss
HOIST
IDIOM

Wordle 1,441 3/6

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LEANT
VISOR
IDIOM

Surprisingly, IDIOM was the only possible choice at three - not even any of the usual bogus Scordle words.
I saw it right away and figured it was a good choice to place the I. An easy and unexpected birdie!

Wordle 1,441 4/6*

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Summary

LEAST
DRONE
WIDOW
IDIOM

Wordle 1,441 4/6

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stale
minor
cough
idiom

Wordle 1,442 4/6

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CHASE
HANDY
HAIKU
HABIT

Wordle 1,442 3/6

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RATIO
TACIT
HABIT

Wordle 1,442 4/6

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shore
match
faith
habit

Wordle 1,442 4/6 — 2025-05-31 Sat
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
HABIT

Wordle 1,442 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1442 3/6

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SLANT
ARGOT
HABIT

Could’ve also been DUCAT or EXPAT. A bunch of other possibilities have already been used.

Wordle 1,442 4/6

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AUDIO
STYLE
TACIT
HABIT

Wordle 1,442 2/6*

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Summary

LEAST
HABIT

Lucky guess!

Wordle 1,442 4/6

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RELAY
UMAMI
OASIS
HABIT

Wordle 1,442 3/6

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HEART
HAUNT
HABIT

Wordle 1,442 4/6

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ACORN
SLATE
PLEAT
HABIT

Wordle 1,442 3/6

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MAUVE
SAINT
HABIT

It was either HABIT or TACIT.
I won the coin toss!

Wordle 1,442 4/6* 5/31/2025

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IDIOM → Slow start. WoFcons and an E, coming up
STILE → Two more WoFcons out there. If I try an A, I can get
TRAIN → Should the T go 3rd or last? ??TIA goes nowhere, ditto ?ATI?, but there is one word if I go ?A?IT…
HABIT
BATIK
was also a possibility, which I didn’t think about, so a bogey was not out of the question. Scoredle also pars, with the answer being the only nonbogus possible for the fourth guess.