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

Wordle 1,522 3/6

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RELAY
RISKY
ROWDY

Wordle 1,522 3/6*

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LEAST
BOUND
ROWDY

Wordle 1,522 5/6* 8/19/2025

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ISSUE β†’ Whiff. Not entirely unexpected, given the word. O, A and Y are left, while TOADY could cover them all, I think I’d like to get some more WoFcons under my belt
TONAL β†’ Maybe it would have been better.
ROMPY β†’ Yep, better. And now it looks like a trap. ROO?Y looks like nothing, so time to work my way through consonants
ROCKY β†’ Not those.
ROWDY

Scoredle lists four words on the pattern I rejected after three, but I claim they are all bogus words. Scoredle itself finishes with a birdie and a smug look on its face. I am at least in good company after three, as Scoredle’s recommendations matched my guesses from then on.

Wordle 1,522 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
WOULD
ROWDY

Wordle 1,522 6/6

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stormy
abhor
order
downy
wordy
rowdy

Wordle 1,523 6/6

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RATIO
SHALE
CLANG
FLAKY
PLAZA
LLAMA

Wordle 1,523 4/6

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AUDIO
FRAME
CHAMP
LLAMA

Picked a useful second word there.

Wordle 1,523 5/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,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[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 T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \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 Q} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1523 3/6

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SLANT
CLAIM
LLAMA

I’d been wondering for awhile when this one would come up.

Musical accompaniment

Wordle 1,523 5/6

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BAKER
STAIN
CHAMP
LOAMY
LLAMA

I was certainly not looking for a double L start, but the much better Scordle-suggested CLAMP instead of CHAMP would have saved me the par. Oh well, hindsight and all that.

Wordle 1,523 5/6

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AUDIO
STYLE
CANAL
PLAZA
LLAMA

Wordle 1,523 4/6 β€” Wed 20 Aug 2025-08-20
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LEAST
BOUND
PRIVY
LLAMA

Wordle 1,523 4/6

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RELAY
DOULA
LABIA
LLAMA

Wordle 1,523 6/6*

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:white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: GUANO
:white_large_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: PLAID
:white_large_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: FLACK
:white_large_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: BLAWS (?!)
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Wordle 1,523 2/6*

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LEAST
LLAMA

Could’ve been LOAMY.

Wordle 1,523 5/6

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HEART
PLAIN
GLASS
BLACK
LLAMA

Wordle 1,523 4/6

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Wordle 1,523 5/6* 8/20/2025

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ROWDY β†’ Whiff. Good first word second is
LEAST β†’ Well that is something. Gotta be a vowel between L and A, so I tried a bunch of things with two ending consonants and for some reason it took
LUACH β†’ RUACH I would have believed, but with an L? Sigh. Anyway, I decided to try with an I, and double upon the A, and cover the last WoFcon with
LIANA β†’ and now I know what it must be, and that it didn’t have to be a vowel between L and A
LLAMA

Must have been produced by someone from Brixton. Scoredle said I had four possibles left after two, and somehow I used three of them. Scoredle sinks a par putt, so their one up on me after today.

Wordle 1,524 4/6
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Wasn’t getting on my own

Wordle 1,523 4/6

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storm
amend
clamp
llama