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

Wordle 1,500 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SAGGY
SAVVY

Looks like I was lucky to get a four.

Wordle 1,500 5/6

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HUMAN
LATER
DAISY
SAPPY
SAVVY

Quite the tricky word, and my random starter did me no favors today. Fortunately, my third word eliminated SASSY, so I wasn’t in danger of a fail (SAGGY and the less-likely SAVOY were remaining). Getting out of this one with a bogey feels like a win, actually.

Wordle 1,500 4/6

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HEART
FANCY
SAUCY
SAVVY

Wordle 1,500 6/6*

:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square: BONEY (Napoleon got me a final Y!)
:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square: HARPY
:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square: FACTY (I didn’t know this word existed)
:white_large_square::green_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::green_square: GASSY (Sorta giving up because I was in a trap)
:green_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square: SALLY (as in “sally port”)
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: SAVVY (As God as my witness, I thought it was “Savy”)

Wordle 1,500 4/6

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RELAY
PASTY
SAGGY
SAVVY

Your Wordle guesses read like a story.

Wordle 1,501 3/6

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AUDIO
BOAST
OMEGA

Another one where my investigative word turned out to be the word. Pure luck.

Wordle 1,501 5/6

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RATIO
SHOAL
ANNOY
COMMA
OMEGA

Got frustrated about guess three and started putting in anything that worked. Did not think to check more vowels.

Wordle 1,501 4/6 — Tue 29 Jul 2025-07-29
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
OMEGA

The story of my life !

Wordle 1,501 4/6*

\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[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 S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,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 H} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1501 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
OMEGA

Apparently the solution was the only remaining possibility after 2, but all I had at that point was vowels, and it’s hard for me to see a word without consonants to give it form. It wasn’t particularly easy to see after 3, for that matter.

Wordle 1,501 5/6

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AUDIO
STYLE
ABOVE - stupid, stupid guess. Not paying attention!
OAKEN
OMEGA

Wordle 1,502 4/6
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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: Ai assisted
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Wordle 1,501 4/6

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HEART
CLEAN
OPERA knowing no R, just fishing for letters
OMEGA

Wordle 1,501 4/6* 7/29/2025

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SAVVY → That’s about the best I could expect, so… I’ll check E & O and two WoFcons
ALONE → All vowels. Had to think about this for a while. In retrospect, surprised I did not see OPERA before I tried
OREAD → And the mountain nymph led me directly to the one word that was left
OMEGA

Solving without consonants is hard on my brain. Scoredle gets par through a different route, but also with a unique tap-in at the end.

Wordle 1,501 3/6

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MOVIE
LEMON
OMEGA

Nice to get that M off the bat, and shuffling those three blues was actually fairly helpful.

I saw CHEMO right away, but resisted. (NYT would use it for a crossword, I’m sure, but too many negative connotations for the daily Wordle, methinks.)

OMEGA turned out to be the only other legit word left, but it took me forever to see it. Almost gave up and put in CHEMO a couple of times, but I stuck it out, and finally

Wordle 1,501 3/6*

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My posts kept getting deleted posting from the phone. Grr. Here too! something is up with the spacing.

LEAST ARENA OMEGA

Turns out ARENA was a fantastic pick! It left just two words, OMEGA and EDEMA. I won the coin toss, too!

Wordle 1,501 5/6*

:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square: CURIO
:white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: PEONY
:yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square: EXTOL
:green_square::white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: OBESE
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: OMEGA

Wordle 1,501 3/6

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RELAY
QUAKE
OMEGA

Wordle 1,501 5/6

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Long drive today. Should have had this in three.