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

Wordle 1,535 3/6* 9/1/2025

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PETAL → We’ve had a lot of twos lately. Can I join the party?
DEALT → Not quite. Should have stuck with my WoFcon obsession.
LEAST

Lot of ones today, too, I see - congratulations to all of you. For the second straight day, my guesses align with Scoredle’s.

I’m super lazy and get easily bored repeating the same word everyday, I’d probably lose interest and quit playing. So I play waffle first and choose one of their words.

Ooh, I’ve forgotten about Waffle! I used to play every day.

I feel so sorry for you too! :wink:

Wordle 1,536 5/6

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RATIO
STILE
PITHY
TWAIN
MIGHT

After three I was pretty sure it was -IGHT. Had to rule out TIGHT, FIGHT, NIGHT, MIGHT, WIGHT. Went for the sleuth word to ensure no loss.

Wordle 1,536 5/6

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AUDIO
PRIME
MISTY
MIGHT

I’m trying my new 3 words…

Wordle 1,536 5/6 — Tue 02 Sep 2025-09-02
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STEAK
COLIN
UPDRYit might be bight fifth fight might thigh tight twixt; previous Wordles have included fifth thigh; possible remaining are bight fight might tight twixt; letters to eliminate are B F M ; so try bumfs
BUMFS
MIGHT

Wordle 1,536 4/6*

\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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,536 2/6*

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Legal
Might

Wordle 1536 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
TEMPI
MIGHT

Boy howdy, there’s a lot of 5-letter words ending in -IGHT, aren’t there?
At least my first two words eliminated LIGHT, NIGHT, RIGHT, SIGHT, and even EIGHT, but there were still BIGHT, FIGHT, MIGHT, TIGHT, and WIGHT to choose from, none of which had been used. (Couldn’t see any non-IGHT words, and Scoredle confirmed afterwards that that was all there were.) Couldn’t come up with a sleuth word to exclude any three of them, so I decided I wanted two of F/M/TIGHT, and hope that the other two were less likely. Fortunately, TEMPI gave me a hit on the M so I avoided a 5 or worse.

Wordle 1,536 5/6

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AUDIO
FLYER
PINCH
SIGHT
MIGHT

Wordle 1,536 5/6

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SHARP
HONEY
LIGHT
FILMY
MIGHT

There were just enough -IGHT words left to raise the possibility of an X/6, so I decided to accept the bogey and live to Wordle another day.

@RTFirefly >> Boy howdy, there’s a lot of 5-letter words ending in -IGHT, aren’t there?

Yes certainly: BIGHT EIGHT FIGHT LIGHT MIGHT NIGHT RIGHT SIGHT RIGHT; that’s 9 of them; in addition to some obscure ones!

Wordle 1,536 4/6*

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:white_large_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: PIGGY (should’ve realized the lack of vowels pointed to an “GHT” ending)
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: MIGHT (Lucky guess, could’ve been SIGHT, BIGHT, NIGHT, FIGHT…)

Wordle 1,536 3/6

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HEART
LIGHT
MIGHT

Wordle 1,536 3/6*

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SNIDE
LIMBO
MIGHT

Got lucky with the M showing up.

Wordle 1,536 4/6* 9/2/2025

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LEAST → For a really good start word, that was a little underwhelming. I’ll focus on the vowels over WoFcons and try
JOINT → Some help there. I’m guessing Y is out, but I can try R and U with
FRUIT → Looks like an -IGHT word. EIGHT, FIGHT, RIGHT, LIGHT, SIGHT, NIGHT are already out; could be BIGHT, MIGHT, TIGHT, and, uh oh, WIGHT. The first and last are fairly obscure, so I’ll try
MIGHT
AMBIT
would have been a good sleuth word on four, had I seen it. Scoredle falls into the trap with its third guess; it finds the answer in five, but has three nonbogus possibles left at that point, so the same chance I had to finish with a loss.

Wordle 1,536 4/6

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LEAST
HOIST
FIGHT
MIGHT

Wordle 1,536 4/6

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RELAY
QUOIT
TIGHT
MIGHT

Wordle 1,537 3/6
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