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

Wordle 1,529 5/6*

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Evict
Awake
Amend
Ashen
Annex

Wordle 1,529 6/6

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storm
peach
freak
waged
alien
annex

Wordle 1,530 4/6

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RATIO
STORE
TENOR
TOWER

Wordle 1,530 3/6

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AUDIO
PROBE
TOWER

Wordle 1,530 5/6*

\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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,530 4/6 — Wed 27 Aug 2025-08-27
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LEAST
BOUND
PRIVYit might be forte toker torte toter tower; previous Wordles have included forte; possible remaining are toker torte toter tower
TOWER

Wordle 1,530 3/6

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AUDIO
WHOLE
TOWER

Wordle 1,530 5/6

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RELAY
OURIE
CODER
SOBER
TOWER

Wordle 1530 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
TOWER

OTTER, OUTER, and VOTER had already been used; TOKER seemed unlikely. (But now I’ve got Steve Miller’s “I’m a joker, I’m a smoker, I’m a midnight toker” going through my head. That’s not a complaint!)

Wordle 1,530 4/6

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HEART
STREP
MITER
TOWER

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Wordle 1,530 X/6*

:white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square: GRUEL
:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square: PACER
:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square: FIXER
:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square: HOSER
:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square: BONER (inner 13 year old laugh)
:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square: ROVER

Wordle 1,530 4/6* 8/27/2025

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ANNEX → Better than a whiff. How can I fit in three WoFcons and an O?
LORES → That’s how. Do we have one of those deadly -ER endings? I’d better check - and I haven’t tried a T yet either
VOTER → Good thing I checked the T. I guess it’s
TOWER

That one consonant cut it down from 63 possibles to four. A stroke of luck when staring down a tough trap (sorry about that @Frodo ). Scoredle finishes with a bogey, after getting into the trap on its third guess it still had four possibles left after five, so it could have easily gone down itself.

Wordle 1,530 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
TOWER

Wordle 1,530 3/6*

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LEAST
ENTRY
TOWER

Wordle 1,530 3/6

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WATCH
TWINE
TOWER

Nice quick birdie. Might have been a Dylan/Hendrix eagle if I’d thought about it harder. No regrets.

Wordle 1,531 4/6
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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: no Ai :innocent: :kangaroo:

Wordle 1,530 3/6

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storm
rotor
tower

Wordle 1,531 5/6

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RATIO
UNFIT
LIMIT
BELIT
SPLIT

Went hunting for phantom vowels.

Wordle 1,531 4/6

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AUDIO
PRIME (I know the I is in wrong spot but fishing for other letters here)
LIPID
SPLIT

Two quick comments:

It’s amazing how easy it is to get the Wordle when you have at least one letter in the right place, and

I’m surprised that this word hasn’t been used yet. Is pretty simplistic.

Wordle 1,531 4/6 — Thu 28 Aug 2025-08-28
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LEAST
BOUND
PRIVY
SPLIT