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

Wordle 1,536 3/6

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storm
minty
might

So getting back to starting words, since LEAST was the Wordle the other day, while I still had my other two words BOUND, PRIVY which have not been Wordles yet, I decided to find 3 more words.

Starting with this list of frequency of letters,

SEAROILTNUDCYPMHGBKFWVZXJQ

I’ll try going with these 3.

βž™ STEAK β€” ROILNUDCYPMHGBFWVZXJQ remain
βž™ COLIN β€” RUDYPMHGBFWVZXJQ remain
βž™ UPDRY β€” MHGBFWVZXJQ remain

None of these have been Wordles yet. So it’ll be STEAK COLIN and UPDRY for now.

Wordle 1,537 3/6

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RATIO
SETUP
FETCH

Wordle 1,537 3/6

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AUDIO
PECKY
FETCH

Wordle 1,537 3/6* 9/3/2025

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MIGHT β†’ Want to try A, E and a WoFcon along with those letters, and the first word I think of is
HATER β†’ So the H must be at the end, and ??TEH goes nowhere, so it must be ?ETCH, which must be
FETCH
KETCH
was also possible, but a lot less likely based on rarity. Scoredle has a very unlucky game; it never even finds the single vowel until the fifth guess, but does finally sink a double bogey.

Wordle 1,537 4/6 β€” Wed 03 Sep 2025-09-03
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STEAK
COLIN
UPDRY
FETCH

Wordle 1,537 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1537 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
FETCH

Could’ve also been KETCH (a kind of sailboat); I didn’t see ETHIC, but it turned out that had been used.

Wordle 1,537 2/6

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CHEST
FETCH

Wordle 1,537 3/6

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AUDIO
STYLE
FETCH
Whiffed on one and still managed to get it in three.

Wordle 1,537 4/6

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HEART
TEETH
DEPTH
FETCH

Wordle 1,537 4/6*

:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: WEARY
:white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: BEGIN
:yellow_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: HELLO
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: FETCH

Wordle 1,537 4/6

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RELAY
GEOID
SETUP
FETCH

Wordle 1,537 4/6*

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SNIDE
TOWER
PETAL
FETCH

Wordle, β€œStop trying to make FETCH happen! It’s not going to happen!”

Wordle 1,537 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
FETCH

Wordle 1,538 3/6
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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: :sparkler: no Ai :innocent: :kangaroo:

Wordle 1,537 4/6

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storm
white
teach
fetch

Wordle 1,537 5/6

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GREAT
STONE
TEPID
JETTY
FETCH

Not a lot of luck finding letters today. To paraphrase Sherlock Holmes, when you eliminate half the alphabet, what remains is sure to contain the Wordle answer. Or something like that.

Wordle 1,537 5/6*

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Kneed
Empty
Trove
Feast
Fetch