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

Wordle 1,531 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,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 Q} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\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 L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1531 2/6

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SLANT
SPLIT

Could’ve also been SPILT or SMOLT; SPELT and SMELT had already been used.

Wordle 1,531 3/6

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AUDIO
CIVIL
SPLIT

Wordle 1,531 2/6

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HEART
SPLIT

First deuce in a while, I won’t pretend it was anything but lucky.

Wordle 1,531 3/6

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RELAY
TULIP
SPLIT

I HATE when wordlebot pats me on the head!

Wordle 1,532 4/6
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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: :innocent:no Ai :kangaroo:

Wordle 1,531 2/6*

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LEAST
SPLIT

Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy!

Back on the saddle:

Wordle 1,531 5/6*

:white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: FRIED
:yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square: LOGIC
:yellow_square::yellow_square::white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square: PLAIN
:yellow_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square::yellow_square: TULIP
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: SPLIT

Wordle 1,531 4/6* 8/28/2025

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TOWER → Well, that’s something. My good first word second becomes
STAIN → Which is definitely progress. I experimented with a way to get both U and L into it and Wordle took my Frankensteinesque construction of
SLUIT → Which led directly to the answer
SPLIT

Scoredle, naturally, goes straight to the answer on my third guess, as I probably should have done if I hadn’t gotten so obsessed with vowel coverage. After its second guess, it goes straight to the tap-in birdie. I guess I was a little off my feed when I did this.

Wordle 1,531 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
VISIT
SPLIT

Wordle 1,531 4/6

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FLUID
PERIL
LAPIN
SPLIT

This gave me way more trouble than it should have. I didn’t like LAPIN, but after stepping away, I still couldn’t see anything else when I came back hours later. Just couldn’t let that second vowel go.

Wordle 1,531 3/6

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storm
saint
split

Wordle 1,532 5/6

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RATIO
TRACE
WRATH
GRANT
GRAFT

Wordle 1,532 4/6

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AUDIO
FRAME
CRAFT
GRAFT

Easy enough with that second choice.

Wordle 1,532 4/6 — Fri 29 Aug 2025-08-29
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LEAST
BOUND
PRIVYit might be craft graft tract; previous Wordles have included craft tract
GRAFT

Wordle 1,532 5/6

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storm
trunk
craft
draft
graft

Wordle 1,532 4/6*

\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[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[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 S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1532 2/6

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SLANT
GRAFT

I could find 14 legit possibilities, and the other 13 had already been used.

Wordle 1,532 3/6

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DYING
GREAT
GRAFT

The word generator gave me an interesting start word today. I thought it was going to be a whiff, but that G turned out to be a nice get, which led to a, well, GREAT second word for the tap-in birdie.

Wordle 1,532 5/6

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AUDIO
PLATE
START
GRANT
GRAFT