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

Wordle 1,591 4/6 β€” Mon 27 Oct 2025-10-27
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STEAK
COLIN β€” possibles are befit debit fetid merit refit remit tepid their, but previous Wordles were debit merit tepid their, so the remaining are befit fetid refit remit; eliminate letters B F M R; try sleuth word(s) frame?
REMIT β€” instead of trying that sleuth word I decided to go for the birdie, but I missed
FETID β€” as I said, that’s not an overly common word…

Wordle 1,591 3/6*

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SNIDE
GEOID
FETID

Wordle 1,591 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
FILED
FETID

Wordle 1,591 4/6

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HEART
PETTY
DETOX
FETID

Wordle 1,592 2/6

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Unless they’ve changed a lot since I used to read it and see the ads, they try to attract an upscale, educated, literate audience.

Wordle 1,592 6/6

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Wordle 1,592 5/6

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RATIO
SHONE
POUCH
HOWDY
HOLLY

If it wasn’t HOLLY or HOBBY and there was another option I would have been in trouble.

Wordle 1,592 5/6

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AUDIO
POESY
ROCKY
JOLLY
HOLLY

No notes.

A lucky guess for the birdie.

Wordle 1,592 3/6 β€” Tue 28 Oct 2025-10-28
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STEAK
COLIN β€” possibles are dolly folly goldy golly holly jolly moldy molly polly polyp, but previous Wordles were dolly folly jolly moldy polyp, so the remaining are goldy golly holly molly polly; eliminate letters G D Y H M P; maybe try sleuth word(s) dumpy humid?
HOLLY β€” a lucky guess for the birdie

Wordle 1,592 3/6

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SLATE
DOILY
HOLLY
3rd time this week I started with a singleton yellow-L
I use the same Clue #2 each time. After that, 5 fitting words
occurred to me; 3 of which were already used. The choice
was between Golly and Holly. But the former word is marked
Informal, minced oath or euphemistic in dictionaries. Therefore,
in accordance with my hypothesis that Editor sometimes bypasses
Wardle words, my Guess #3 was clear-cut.

Wordle 1,592 3/6*

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Truce
Moldy
Holly

Wordle 1592 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
HOLLY

The only other (iffy IMHO) possibility was a British β€˜HULLO’ greeting. Not sure how often I’ve even seen that outside of Lord of the Rings.

Wordle 1,592 3/6

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WHILE
HOTLY
HOLLY

A fortunate start word essentialy narrowed the list to two (though I didn’t realize it at the time). I thought I’d vaguely remembered HOLLY being used before; obviously I was wrong, but I prefer not repeating a placed letter anyway, so I’m not mad at the outcome here.

Wordle 1,592 2/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 1,592 X/6

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ROUSE
POINT
FOAMY
BLOCK
LOWLY
JOLLY

Bust. :angry:

Wordle 1,592 4/6

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HEART
HONKY
HOWDY
HOLLY

Wordle 1,592 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST - Given the used letters, there is no word starting in β€œHOU–” that I could see, which likely meant double consonant and ending in β€˜y’. So hobby, hoppy, or . . .
HOLLY

Wordle 1,592 4/6*

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SNIDE
CHUMP
WORTH
HOLLY

Wordle 1,592 3/6* 10/28/2025

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FETID β†’ Whiff. Time for a good first word second.
SOLAR β†’ Not bad. Probably another vowel there - repeat O, U or Y. If I go terminal Y, it’s probably double-L, and with F and D already used the leading letter could be
HOLLY

A stroke of luck with my carryover first guess eliminates enough trap words to give me a birdie. Scoredle has a little less luck with its second guess, eschewing a third WoFcon and having to find it later, then escaping the trap after one miss, so it takes a bogey. Which is still better than from its own start word SLATE, where it dives into the trap with its second guess but goes the distance before hitting on its final guess. I notice the trap has already claimed one victim today; I wonder what the NYT average is?