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

Wordle 1,526 3/6

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AUDIO
PIOUS
UNION

Wordle 1526 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
UNION

After 3, I came up with some possible solutions that it turned out Scoredle didn’t even have: UNFOG and UNBOW (the latter as in ‘bloody but unbowed.’) But I figured UNION was the better bet than either of those.

Wordle 1,526 3/6*

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Least
Whoop
Union

I was on a weird state of mind last night, for sure, tired and in the grip of a monster flu.

Houri and Bijou occurred to me immediately, but Union did not until I had given up guessing and tried every combination, from UWIOE to UVIOM, then I started trying UNI… and facepalmed

Wordle 1527 4/6
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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: no Ai :innocent: :kangaroo:
some work involved.

Wordle 1,526 5/6

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HEART
SPOIL
GOING
ONION
UNION

Wordle 1,526 3/6* 8/23/2025

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RATTY → Whiff. Time for one of my lamer first words second
LENOS → Productive at least. Feels like an -ION ending. I can check another vowel and try to place the N with
UNION

There were three or four nonbogus answers after two, depending upon how you feel about Youtube “look what I just bought” videos. Scoredle misses the key WoFcon with its second guess and stumbles to a five.

Wordle 1,526 3/6*

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LEAST
DROWN
UNION

Wordle 1,526 3/6

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RELAY
ODIUM
UNION

Wordle 1,526 5/6

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HOTEL
GROAN
SCION
ONION
UNION

Lost the coin toss. The good news is, I finally got my streak back to 100. I forgot to play a while back, and had a fail a while before that (or vice versa, maybe), so it’s been at least a couple of whiles since I saw triple digits. :blush:

Wordle 1,526 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
ONION
UNION

Wordle 1,526 5/6

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storm
found
ounce
unbox
union

Wordle 1,527 3/6

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SHORT
SNORE
SPORE

Wordle 1,527 3/6

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RATIO
PROSE
SPORE

Lucky second guess.

Wordle 1,527 3/6

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AUDIO
PROBE
SPORE

Wordle 1,527 4/6 — Sun 24 Aug 2025-08-24
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LEAST
BOUND
PRIVY
SPORE

Wordle 1,527 5/6

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storm
shore
score
prawn
spore

Wordle 1,527 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Lucky.
Could’ve been SNORE, STORE, SHORE or SWORE.. I don’t
use any outside assistance so I don’t know if any of those have been
used before.

Wordle 1527 3/6

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:white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: 3
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

SLANT
CHORE
SPORE

Could’ve also been SWORE but presumably not S’MORE.