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

Wordle 1,550 5/6

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Wordle 1,550 3/6

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AUDIO
PERKY
LEFTY

lucky guess

Wordle 1,550 4/6

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RATIO
CHUTE
MELTY
LEFTY

Wordle 1,550 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,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 L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,550 4/6 — Tue 16 Sep 2025-09-16
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STEAK
COLIN
UPDRY
LEFTY

Wordle 1550 3/6

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SLANT
LITER
LEFTY

I just started doing Wordle and have four 4s and three 3s. On the latest one, 1549, I got no Greens until clue 4:

BYBBY
YBBYY
BYYYY
GGGGG

Question: To date I’ve not seen any doubled letter in the secret word. Is that generally the case?

They happen often enough, but it would be easy for a small sample like yours to not find any. The most recent doubled letter, not including today obviously, was in Wordle 1533, ELATE. From Wordle 1517 to 1525, we had several: KNELL, LEVEL, MATTE, ISSUE, LLAMA, and RATTY all appeared in that 9-day stretch.

Wordle 1,550 4/6

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SPACE
ELBOW
LIVER
LEFTY

Wordle 1,550 3/6

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RELAY
NEWLY
LEFTY

Wordle 1,551 3/6

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Wordle 1,550 3/6

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HEART
JETTY
LEFTY

Wordle 1,550 3/6*

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SNIDE
FEMUR
LEFTY

Wordle 1,550 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
BETEL
MELTY
LEFTY

Lucky to get there after a poor start.

Wordle 1,550 3/6* 9/16/2025

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ALONG → One L. With two vowels gone, I’m still a bit worried about them, so I & E and two more WoFcons to get
STILE → So here I’m trying to fit an R in, and I’m still worried about vowels so I’ve got a terminal Y locked in, and I type in LERTY and i say “that looks like”
LEFTY

Bit of a stroke of luck to get that birdie. Scoredle also hits the birdie, picking the right one out of four nonbogus possibles after two. Indeed, Scoredle’s own start gives it a two!

Wordle 1,550 4/6

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NOISE
EARLY
LEGGY
LEFTY

Three non-bogus words after two - LEGGY, LEFTY, and MELTY. Any one, if wrong, eliminated one of the other two. So it was just a matter of chance for a birdie, which I didn’t get.

Wordle 1,550 5/6*

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Lurch
Lolly
Lamby
Leggy
Lefty

Try saying that five times fast!

Wordle 1,550 4/6

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storm
tepid
wetly
lefty

Wordle 1,551 4/6

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AUDIO
PERKY
GENET
TEETH

Wordle 1,551 3/6

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RATIO
CHUTE
TEETH

Lucky guess.