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

Wordle 1,595 5/6 — Fri 31 Oct 2025-10-31
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STEAK
COLIN
UPDRYpossibles are abhor arbor armor aroma arrow bravo favor major razor; but previous Wordles were arbor aroma arrow bravo favor major; so remaining possibles are abhor armor razor
ARMOR
ABHOR

Wordle 1,595 3/6

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GHOST
CRANE
ABHOR

Since several other NYT puzzles today had a Halloween theme, I thought maybe the Wordle word might be Halloweeny too, but no. Getting HO and RA as yellows meant the O and A were not likely to be together as neither could be the middle letter.

Wordle 1,595 5/6

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SLATE
GRIND
PARKA
RUMOR
ABHOR
Appropriate comeuppance for my gloating yesterday! :sweat_smile:
Not sure if I misplayed or was just unlucky.
In hindsight Parka looks like a waste, but it worked well with the short
list I had then (missing Rumor, Humor, Abhor).

Wordle 1,595 3/6

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HEART
CHAIR- knew A was in wrong place, had to place either H or R
ABHOR

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BUYER
ABHOR

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CRANE
HOIST
ABHOR

Wordle 1,595 3/6* 10/31/2025

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LATHE → Lucky H. Now that’s something I can work with. Not TH, though.. perhaps CH or SH? If I want to try a vowel, O would be the next one up… which leads us to
CHAOS → O, placed! Nice. The A pretty much has to be first, and the H third, which leads us to
ABHOR

Scoredle, for the record, makes the exact same guesses I did. Starting off with a non-common consonant is a real boost.

Wordle 1,595 4/6*

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SNIDE
BRAWL
COBRA
ABHOR

Wordle 1,596 4/6

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Wordle 1,595 4/6

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SPEAK
TRAIN
CARRY
ABHOR

I seemed to be making frustratingly little progress through three, but after looking more closely I saw that I’d set myself up for a tap-in par. A satisfying finish.

Wordle 1,596 3/6

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RATIO
LUTES
MOTEL

Got lucky despite a stupid error on 2.

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SHORN
TOTAL
MOTEL

Living on the edge…
Wordle 1,596 6/6

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AUDIO
PEOSY
TOKEN
COVET
HOTEL
MOTEL

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SLATE
MOTEL
(Everyone was too kind to mention my brain-fart on #1595; Thanks.)
After the triple-yellow I found 14 fitting words of which 3 (Hotel, Towel, Filet)
had already been used and a whopping 8 (Tiled, Tiler, Relit, Telex, Liter etc.)
were not even Wardle words.
Betel and Inlet afaik were the only possibilities other than Motel.
Inlet was out since it might lead to a Four score.
I bypassed Betel which seems like a slightly obscure word Editor might reject.

Wordle 1,596 3/6 — Sat 01 Nov 2025-11-01
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STEAK
COLIN
MOTEL

Wordle 1,596 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,596 5/6

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BUYER
OAKEN
MIMEO
MOTET
MOTEL

Tried to get all fancy-schmancy and got a bogey for my trouble.

Wordle 1,596 3/6

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LEAST
HOTEL
MOTEL
I thought of motel first then changed it at the last second. :angry:

Wordle 1,596 5/6* 11/1/2025

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ABHOR → An appropriate word for a near-vacuum. I tried a couple possibilities with E, but then saw
LIONS → and went with it. Then I endeavored to move the O over one more space again, and saw a possible with the E (and a Y) and went for that, so
MOLEY → Which really felt like I struck gold, and since I had been reading WWII history immediately before this I went with
MODEL → which made me feel really dumb once I realized I had one WoFcon to go
MOTEL

My third guess was a real stroke of luck - got me down from over twenty legit possibles to just two - but given my fourth guess, I’d have to conclude it used all my luck up. Scoredle makes a very systematic par.