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

Wordle 1,515 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
ZONAL
WOMAN
NOMAD

Seems like everybody had an easy time of this but me.

Wordle 1,515 3/6*

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LEAST
HARDY
NOMAD

Wordle 1,516 5/6 :person_shrugging:

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: :kangaroo: Ai solved :tired_face:

Wordle 1,515 2/6

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MEDIA
NOMAD

The random generator gave me two low-tier consonants and they both hit!

I didn’t want to botch a good start so I took my time, but I needn’t have worried much—NOMAD and DATUM were the only non-bogus words available.

Wordle 1,515 4/6

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storm
money
woman
nomad

Wordle 1515 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
ANNOY
NOMAD

Lost the coin toss at 3.

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RELAY
NOMAD

Wordle 1,515 4/6*

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Payee
Drank
Nodal
Nomad

Wordle 1,516 4/6

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AUDIO
PRIME
RIVER
KEFIR

Nasty one, I think.

Wordle 1,516 3/6

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RATIO
SERIF
KEFIR

Didn’t think this would be an answer but couldn’t find anything else.

My Ai solution said it was the only choice…..but I think it’s a bit too obscure. :thinking:

Summary

I only got 1516 by getting the last 4 letters and then guessing until one of them was a word.

Wordle 1,516 6/6 — Wed 13 Aug 2025-07-13
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LEAST
BOUND
PRIVY
EERIE
REMIX
KEFIR

Wordle 1,516 4/6*

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

Scoredle 4/6*

14,855
:white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::yellow_square: ARISE (146)
:yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square: FIRED (3)
:yellow_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square: REFIT (1)
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: KEFIR

An absolutely bogus word, where “bogus” is defined as “I never heard it in my life!”
But when you have eliminated all of the obvious options, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be ethe answer.

Ugh.

Wordle 1516 5/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DIVEY
RERIG
KEFIR

Way too obscure for this game, AFAIAC.

I’m not sure if I was today days old when I learned that it was a word, but I’d have had no idea of what it was. A local official somewhere in Eurasia, maybe? “The Ambassador to Kazakhstan attended a party hosted by the Kefir of Samarkand.” Yeah, that sounds about right.

Wordle 1,517 4/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: Ai assist :person_shrugging: :kangaroo:

Wordle 1,516 4/6

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HEART
REPLY
FEVER
KEFIR
Solved by brute force of assuming -EFIR and trying all initial letters

Wordle 1,516 5/6*

:white_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: PIETY
:white_large_square::green_square::yellow_square::green_square::white_large_square: PERIL
:yellow_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square: REDID
:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square: AESIR
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: KEFIR

absolutely nasty word, I had to google “Words ending in -ir” to find it, I consider that cheating but I don’t have the time today to test all the combinations as I’ve done in the past.

Wordle 1,516 6/6*

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LEAST
WENCH
DERBY
FEMUR
REFER
KEFIR

W the actual F?