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

Wordle 1,544 4/6*

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Wordle 1,544 5/6* 9/10/2025

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TRICK → I was hoping today would be TRACK. Alas… time for a good first word second
LEAST → No help there. Better check O & Y of the vowels, and try to place the T… NOTTY doesn’t work, so I’ll try
DOTTY → I can cover the last vowel with POUTY, but I think a double-O is more likely, so
BOOTY → Darn. Was it???
POUTY

It was. And Scoredle gets it in three. Rough on me, no?

Wordle 1,544 3/6*

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Yucca
Lousy
Pouty

Wordle 1544 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
POUTY

No way I was going to get this one in less than 4.

Wordle 1,544 4/6

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HEART
STONY
BOOTY (Love a stony booty)
POUTY

Wordle 1,544 3/6

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SCORE
POINT
POUTY

Wordle 1,544 4/6 — Wed 10 Sep 2025-09-10
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STEAK
COLINit might be booth booty dotty doubt forth forty hotty motor motto mouth potty pouty robot rotor toddy tooth tough worth youth; previous Wordles include booty doubt forth forty motor motto robot toddy tooth tough youth; possible remaining are booth dotty hotty mouth potty pouty rotor worth; letters to eliminate are B(1) T(7) H(4) D(1) Y(3) M(1) P(1) U(2) W(1) ; so try T H Y U = YOUTH
YOUTH
POUTY

Wordle 1,544 5/6

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RELAY
NOISY
WOODY
POTTY
POUTY

Wordle 1,544 5/6*

:green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square: PIETY (3 matches! I thought I had it for sure)
:green_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square: POTTY (NOPE)
:green_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square: PORTY (surely… but NO)
:green_square::green_square::white_large_square::green_square::green_square: PONTY (Just trying letters at this point)
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: POUTY (It was right THERE :man_facepalming:)

Wordle 1,544 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
LOFTY
POUTY

Very lucky guess.

Wordle 1,544 4/6

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MODEL
HOIST
FORTY
POUTY

Flipped a coin on BOOTY and POUTY.
I really didn’t think they’d use POTTY, but I could have swallowed the bogey if they did.
The only other legit word I didn’t see was BOXTY. It’s a bit obscure, but I know it. And it would have gotten me a six.

Wordle 1,544 4/6*

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SNIDE
TROLL
MOUTH
POUTY

These words all describe a certain FOTUS we all know…

Wordle 1,545 4/6

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

Wordle 1,544 5/6

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storm
often
toxic
loath
pouty

Wordle 1,545 4/6

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AUDIO
BRAIN
FLAIR
CHAIR

Wordle 1,545 3/6

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RATIO
FLAIR
CHAIR

Wordle 1,545 3/6*

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Wordle 1,545 4/6*

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Cabal
Crack
Chard
Chair

Wordle 1545 2/6

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SLANT
CHAIR

Boy howdy, was that ever lucky! Just for the hell of it, I decided to open my dictionary, compare with my spreadsheet of past solutions, and see what CHA-- words were left, since I like to check for the C,H, and R on my second word if I don’t know enough about the solution to go straight at it. Now Scoredle says there are 256 possibilities after my starting word, and I figure maybe 1/3 of those are real words, and by this point, something more than half of those 80-90 ‘real’ words have been used. And most of those remaining won’t start with CHA. In fact, only three seemed to be left: CHAFF, CHAIR, and CHARY. The last two check for C,H, and R, and CHAIR being the more common word, I went with it, and watched it turn green. :slight_smile:

Wordle 1,545 2/6

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