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

Wordle 1,450 2/6

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Summary

LEAST
LEASE

For a minute there, I thought today was the day!

Wordle 1,450 4/6

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UNITE
SCARE
BLASE
LEASE

Looks like four is a bad score today. Damn repeating E got me again.

Wordle 1,450 5/6* 6/8/2025

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REUSE → Wow! Do I have a shot at a 2? Hmm, lots of ?ENSE words, so probably not, but I should try one of them that exercises WoFcons at least
TENSE → Ok, that wasn’t it. Maybe a double-E (which is to say, three of 'em?)
GEESE → Nope. ?EASE, I’ll try
CEASE → Aw, darn, an L. Should have tried it in my WoFcon phase
LEASE

Scoredle likes my second guess, and then sees the three words I finished with and picks the right one. So it finishes with a birdie while I take a bogey on the misplay (should have had no worse than par). Hmph.

Wordle 1,450 4/6

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steam
phase
erase
lease

Wordle 1,451 4/6

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RATIO
SOLAR
HOARY
BOARD

Wordle 1,451 3/6

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CRANE
SHARD
BOARD

Wordle 1,451 3/6

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point
mouse
board

Wordle 1,451 4/6 — 2025-06-09 Mon
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
BOARD

Wordle 1,451 2/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\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 A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ \end{aligned}

Bastards !

Wordle 1451 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
BOARD

OVARY was the only other possibility, but I was betting that the NYT would stay away from gynecological terms.

Wordle 1,451 2/6

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HEART
BOARD

Wordle 1,451 3/6

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AUDIO
BROAD
BOARD
Was trying to choose between those two, and picked wrong again.

Wordle 1,451 4/6*

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Wrest
Razor
Acorn
Board

Wordle 1,451 4/6*

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I think if I hadn’t learned English from SF and specially Fantasy books I would’ve thought of “BOARD” before “HOARD” :smiley:

Wordle 1,451 3/6*

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Summary

LEAST
FRAUD
BOARD

Wordle 1,451 3/6

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ORATE
ROACH
BOARD

Nice start. I had BOARD, HOARD, or ROACH. Any of them would have guaranteed a birdie, assuming I hadn’t missed any possibilities (I hadn’t). So this was pretty quick and easy.

Wordle 1,451 4/6* 6/9/2025

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LEASE → I was hoping for one E. With two WoFcons gone, I’ll focus on more vowels next.
PIANO → O is nice. Probably goes before the A. Two WoFcons left, I should try at least one, and there’s a good word to try one with
ROACH → Move that after the vowels. ?OAR? evokes
BOARD

It was the only word remaining. Scoredle sinks a 50/50 putt for par.

What’s a WoFcon?

Short for “Wheel of Fortune consonant” - R, S, T, L, and N, generally the most common consonants found in English text. Since I start each day with yesterday’s solution, I usually want to pick words that use as many of them as early as possible, as they might not have been present in my start word.

Thanks!, I’ll take them in account in future guesses :slight_smile: