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

The Game Room
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Wordle 1,586 3/6

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AVOID
TUNER
STUNT

From whiff to birdie. Nice!
Six legit words were left (STUNT, SHUNT, STUNK, STUNG, BLUNT, UNCUT). I was due for a little luck.

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Wordle 1,586 5/6

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GRADE
TOUCH
STUMP
FUNKY
STUNT

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HEART
SKINT
STUNT

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:yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: TREAD
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SNIDE
SALON
STUNK
STUNT

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

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BUYER
MIAOU
SLUNK
STUNT

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Wordle 1,586 3/6* 10/22/2025

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DETOX → Slow start. But, time for a good first guess second, with A & I featuring along with a couple WoFcons
TRAIN → Found an N, but no vowels hit. U or Y? and where does the T fit? If I try U, I can try to place the T and another WoFcon with
STUNT

An unexpected birdie. Scoredle shows seven nonbogus possibles for that last guess, so perhaps this was a chip-in? Scoredle makes a masterful second guess, but was still only one-in-four to convert the biride - which it does.

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SLATE
WRING
STUNT

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CRANE
HOIST
STUNT - couldn’t be anything else

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Wordle 1,587 4/6

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AUDIO
DRIVE
DRINK
DRILL

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RATIO
CRIME
GRILL
FRILL
DRILL

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SLATE
DOILY
DRILL
I got the exact same yellow-L three days ago and saw no
reason to deviate from the Clue #2 I "carefully selected’ then!
R is the 3rd commonest of all Wordle letters, according to the 'Net,
behind only E and A. Is it wrong to leave it unasked?
But I think an R, if there is one, will fall into place easily
when it’s needed.

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\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \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 L} \\ \end{aligned}

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SLIDE
BUILD
DRILY
DRILL

Thought I had a birdie until the double letter got me.

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POINT
FAIRY
CRIME
DRILL

4998
Wordle 1,587 3/6* 10/23/2025

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STUNT → Whiff. Two WoFcons left, add three vowels and stir, and you get
ARIEL → Hmmm. [GFDK]RILL, perhaps? Is KRILL sufficiently common? I feel like we’ve done GRILL before, so I’ll try
DRILL

From whiff to birdie is a nice feeling. Scoredle avoids the trap by guessing a past-tense vowel for its second word, which leaves it with a tap-in par.

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STEAK
COLIN
UPDRY
DRILL

5000

Now with 5,000 posts, we are halfway through this thread…

Some history; a reverse chronology:

2024-11-19, Wordle 1,249 was GOING
Thread #3 was started by @Bullitt.
➜ https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-3/1010451/2?u=bullitt ■

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2023-03-25, Wordle 644 was VOTER
Thread #2 was started by @RTFirefly.
➜ https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/2?u=bullitt ■

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2022-02-10, Wordle 237 was ULCER
Post #1,284 in thread #1 by @EllisDee was the first time Wordle was hosted by nytimes.com.
➜ https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604/1284?u=bullitt ■

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2021-12-24, Wordle 189 was WEARY
Thread #1, post #1 by @Briny_Deep was when we started to play Wordle, created by Josh Wardle from Wales, hosted on powerlanguage.co.uk.
➜ https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604?u=bullitt ■

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The old link was this. It is now a broken link:
➜ https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle ■

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Per wiki, Josh Wardle now lives in Brooklyn:
➜ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Wardle ■