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

Wordle 1,471 4/6

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stake
point
width
witty

Wordle 1,471 4/6

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:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square:PINCH
:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square:LIMIT
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:WITTY

Wordle 1,471 5/6*

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Slant
Titty
Ditty
Bitty
Witty

Wordle 1,471 5/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Q} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \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 T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

Another 5 here too…

Wordle 1,471 5/6 β€” 2025-06-29 Sun
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND β€” It might be kitty titty tizzy witty
KITTY
WITTY

Wordle 1471 5/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
TWERK
WITTY

After 3, I saw FIFTY (already used), BITTY, KITTY, and WITTY, but not TIZZY. Wanting to avoid a 6, I went with TWERK as my sleuth word which also tested for the possibility of having overlooked a word beginning with T. It did the job.

Wordle 1,471 4/6

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AUDIO
STYLE
MINTY
WITTY

Wordle 1,471 4/6

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HEART
STIFF
TIMID
WITTY

Wordle 1,471 3/6*

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Lyric
Misty
Witty

Wordle 1,471 4/6*

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Summary

LEAST
DIRTY
MINTY
WITTY

Wordle 1,471 6/6

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RELAY
JUICY
MINTY
SIXTY
KITTY
WITTY

At least my streak is still alive.

Wordle 1,471 5/6* 6/29/2025

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STUMP β†’ Kinda slow start. Let’s try A & E with WoFcons
LATER β†’ Nothing, other than placing the T. O, I & Y are left of the vowels - I’ll try O & Y with a likely ending
DOTTY β†’ Must be an I in there. K, W, maybe B… I think I’m safe.
KITTY β†’
WITTY
Knew there wouldn’t be a third T.
Scoredle has a few other words that could fit the bill, but they all seem bogus. Scoredle falls into the trap early, then goes the distance, getting the solution just under the wire. Tough puzzle today.

Wordle 1,471 4/6

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ACORN
HEIST
DITTY
KITTY

After the second word, only β€˜i’ and β€˜u’ were left. The likelihood of those two vowels being in the final word was near zero, which pretty much left a word ending in β€˜y’.

Wordle 1,471 3/6

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ARISE
TONIC
WITTY

I wanted to place the T and check for Y. There were about a dozen legit words available, so I’ll cop to the lucky birdie!

Wordle 1,472 4/6

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RATIO
SHINE
CLING
BLINK

Wordle 1,472 5/6

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:white_large_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:SLINK
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:BLINK
Could really have gone either way with the last two. I figured the actual answer was probably already a wordle and the one I guessed first was more obscure.

Wordle 1,472 3/6

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TRIAD
FLING
BLINK

Wordle 1,472 4/6

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cream
north
dingy
blink

Wordle 1,472 2/6*

\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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ \end{aligned}

Well that was a surprise. I though of BLINK first, but spent a while
considering whether to try and eliminate some more vowels first..
Glad i went with my first thought !!

Wordle 1472 2/6

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SLANT
BLINK

There were several good unused possibilities after 1; I went with the one that gave me the best chance of no worse than a 3, and got lucky. Makes up for yesterday’s 5.

Too bad this wasn’t the solution to Wordle 182, but I’m not complaining!