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

Wordle 1,481 3/6*

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LEAST
BOWEL
NOVEL

Wordle 1481 3/6

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SLANT
FELON
NOVEL

NOBLE had already been used, won a coin toss between NOVEL and LONER.

Yesterday’s:
Wordle 1480 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
RARER
DREAD

BREAD, BREAK, DREAM, and WREAK had already been used, leaving a coin toss between DREAD and FREAK.

Did I break the bread in my dream? Or was I in dread of what the freak could wreak? :wink:

Wordle 1,481 4/6

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STOCK
MINOR
NOBLE
NOVEL

Wordle 1,481 5/6

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AUDIO
STYLE
MELON
LONER
NOVEL

Wordle 1,481 4/6

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RELAY
LOUIE
VOWEL
NOVEL

Wordle 1,482 4/6
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No Ai :innocent: :kangaroo:
Got a good sleep.

Wordle 1,481 5/6*

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Attic
Froze
Obeys
Endow
Novel

Wordle 1,482 3/6

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AUDIO
PRUNE (just investigating letters, I know the U is already right)
JUMPY

Wordle 1,482 6/6

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RATIO
LUNES
MUCKY
YUMMY
BUMPY
JUMPY

Very stupid! After four I should have gone through the options and tried a sleuth word. As it was, I has to choose between DUMPY and JUMPY and I got lucky.

Wordle 1,482 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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt J} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,482 5/6

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AUDIO
STYLE
BUNNY
PUFFY
JUMPY

Wordle 1,482 3/6

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RELAY
JUICY
JUMPY

Wordle 1,482 3/6*

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LEAST
BROIL ← dammit! I reused a bad letter
JUMPY ← Whiffed the first two guesses, and JUMPED to the right conclusion! Hardee-har-har. :rofl:

Wordle 1,482 5/6*

:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: TREAD
:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: BOILS
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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: JUMPY (I was about to give up!)

Wordle 1,482 4/6 — 2025-07-10 Thu
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
JUMPYpretty much the only possibility

Wordle 1,482 X/6

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Well, there goes that streak. Never had both starting words yield nothing before.

Wordle 1,482 5/6* 7/10/2025

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NOVEL → Whiff. A, I and the last three WoFcons make
STAIR → Double whiff! Better try U & Y both this time out, and what can I make of the consonants that are left?
BUMPY → Oh, so close. Let’s see… D or J?
DUMPY → Darn it. J (I hope)
JUMPY
H or P
were also possibilities, per Scoredle. Both seem rather bogus to me. Double-whiff followed by 4/5 seemed pretty awesome (until I saw @Rebo doing that one better - congratulations!) Scoredle gets it in 4 with some better guessing in the trap.

Wordle 1,482 6/6

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SUGAR
TUNIC
QUELL
DUMPY
BUMPY
JUMPY

Badly played.
I should have abandoned hard mode.
I should have tried the terminal Y sooner.
I shouldn’t have wasted two spots on a double letter.

Scoredle gets a five from my (randomly generated) opening word, so maybe I shouldn’t be so hard on myself.

Wordle 1482 5/6*

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
BUMPY
JUMPY

Lost the coin toss on 4. It happens. Not bad for blanking on my first two words, which contain the 7 most frequent consonants and the 3 most frequent vowels in Wordle solutions. Looks like this is the ninth time the Wordle solution would have blanked both my first two words, and I was actually playing that two-word starting combo for eight of those instances. The others: BUDDY, BUGGY, GIDDY, GUMMY, GUPPY, JIFFY, MUMMY, and VIVID.

I don’t intentionally play hard mode, but I’ve decided to start starring the times I play in a manner consistent with hard mode.

Wordle 1,482 6/6

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HEART
SPOIL
PYGMY
DUMPY
BUMPY
JUMPY