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

Wordle 1,563 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,563 4/6

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RANGE
SPOUT
CHILI
CIVIL

Wordle 1,563 3/6

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HEART
SPOIL
CIVIL

Wordle 1,563 3/6*

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SNIDE
AURIC
CIVIL

Wordle 1563 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
CIVIL

And here I was, patting myself on the back for my 3. :smiley:
Looks like the solution was the only possibility after 2. (Unless you think ‘cully’ or ‘cylix’ is on the solutions list!)

Wordle 1,564 3/6

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

Wordle 1,563 5/6* 9/29/2025

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GOOEY → Whiff. First word second on the way
SLAIN → Not bad. I can cover the U with
TULIP → R is still left on the WoFcons, but I don’t think I’ll need it. A second I is likely, and since I’m mad that my last guess didn’t do much it was easy to see
LIVID → Well, now I know where that L goes.
CIVIL

A 50-50 putt for par goes awry. Faced with a similar dilemma, Scoredle sinks the putt for its own par.

Wordle 1,563 3/6

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RELAY
LOUIS
CIVIL

Wordle 1,563 4/6

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FAULT
LINER
SILKY
CIVIL

I thought this word would cause a lot of trouble, but people here are rocking it!

I actually considered CIVIL at three, but wanted to try the terminal Y, and didn’t want to double up the I. Turns out there were more words with two I’s than with a Y. :man_shrugging:

Here, allow me to break the streak.

Wordle 1,563 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
CUPID
CIVIC
CIVIL

Wordle 1,563 5/6*

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Jaded
Swoop
Quilt
Milky
Civil

Wordle 1,564 4/6

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AUDIO
CHEEK
FEELY
GEESE

Wordle 1564 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
GUISE
GEESE

Wordle 1,564 4/6

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RATIO
LUNES
SPECK
GEESE

Wordle 1564

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An interesting challenge, given that one knows the secret word, might be to guess a player’s clue words from the colored result as shown above. In my case

No, my third clue was NOT the singular form of the secret word. I’d eliminated ‘O’ with clue 2.

Wordle 1,564 4/6 — Tue 30 Sep 2025-09-30
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STEAK
COLIN
UPDRY
GEESEwas the only possible word

Wordle 1,564 6/6*

\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[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 L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 1,564 4/6*

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Cutie
Plane
Erode
Geese

Wordle 1,564 5/6

:yellow_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::yellow_square::black_large_square: SIREN
:black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::green_square::green_square: PAUSE
:black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::green_square::green_square: CLOSE
:black_large_square::black_large_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: THESE
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: GEESE

Wordle 1,564 4/6

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HEART
BEGIN
GELDS
GEESE