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

Wordle 1,540 4/6*

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harpy
Clout
Lunge
Bulge

Wordle 1,540 4/6

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PLATE
SIDLE
LUNGE
BULGE

Wordle 1,540 4/6

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HEART
GLOVE
BUGLE betcha I get it in the next guess
BULGE

Wordle 1,540 3/6*

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SNIDE
BLARE
BULGE

Wordle 1,540 4/6* 9/6/2025

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DRIFT → Whiff. A, E and three WoFcons on the way
LEARS → Starting really slow here. I’m feeling I need more vowels here, so I’ll try two of them and while LONEY might have been good, I know the L isn’t there, so I’ll try
MOLEY → Good placement on the L, but nothing else helps. E… at the end? ??LVE, but not VALVE? Can’t be VALUE either, but there could be a U… DELVE is out, but ULGE looks like
BULGE

That was quite a battle. Scoredle also pars, with a final-guess tap-in. Technically my last guess was also a tap-in, but it took me a long time to see it.

Wordle 1,540 4/6

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RELAY
OILED
PULSE
BULGE

Wordle 1,541 3/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: no Ai :innocent: :kangaroo:

Wordle 1,540 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
FLUME
BULGE

Feel good about this one, after a poor start.

Wordle 1,540 4/6

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TOPIC
RENAL
ELUDE
BULGE

Fun mental workout today. I think I did about as well as I could have after that opening whiff. The only other option was the anagram BUGLE, so I won the 50/50 between a par and a bogey. I’ll take it!

Wordle 1540 4/6*

:white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: PILAR
:white_large_square::yellow_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: MELTY
:white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::yellow_square::white_large_square: HOLED
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: BULGE

Wordle 1,541 4/6

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RATIO
STORE
TOWER
TENOR

Wordle 1,541 2/6

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NORTH
TENOR

Wordle 1,541 4/6 — Sun 07 Sep 2025-09-07
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STEAK
COLIN
UPDRY
TENOR

Wordle 1,541 5/6

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AUDIO
POESY
CRONE
HERON
TENOR
straightforward but not exactly easy for me.

Wordle 1,541 4/6

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stare
their
tuber
tenor

Wordle 1,541 4/6*

\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[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[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 I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \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 E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1541 3/6

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SLANT
ENTRY
TENOR

Could’ve been TONER or TUNER.

Wordle 1,541 2/6

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ROUTE
TENOR

Wordle 1,542 3/6

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