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

The Game Room
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Wordle 1,607 4/6* 11/12/2025

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GIZMO → Whiff. Good first word second time, the classic edition
SLATE → Thought for a second it would be a double-whiff. Need a word with U, R and N, which leads us to
PRUNE → Huh. Sat on this for a while until I realized I needed a repeat vowel, then I saw it pretty quickly
DEUCE

Since yesterday’s solution wasn’t LITTLE, I’m not going to hazard a guess about what tomorrow’s will be. It turns out there was one other nonbogus word on the last guess that could have gotten me a bogey. Scoredle makes a spectacular third guess to finish with a tap-in.

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Wordle 1,607 3/6*

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SNIDE
BUDGE
DEUCE

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Wordle 1,607 4/6

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HEART
PEONY
SEIZE
DEUCE rare case of no letters in wrong place throughout

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Wordle 1,607 3/6*

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Chaff
Ducts
Deuce

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Great minds think alike! :upside_down_face:

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Wordle 1,607 4/6

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BUYER
TOQUE
SAUCE
DEUCE

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Wordle 1,608 4/6

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Wordle 1607 3/6
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SLANT
CHORE…JUICE and PIECE have been used, what the
DEUCE…could it be? :wink:

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Wordle 1,608 4/6 THURSDAY

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AUDIO
PRIME
NICHE
TINGE

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Wordle 1,608 3/6

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RATIO

TILDE

TINGE

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Wordle 1,608 3/6 — Thu 13 Nov 2025-11-13
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STEAK
COLIN — possibles are feint thine tinge twine unite; but previous Wordles were twine unite; so remaining possibles are feint thine tinge
TINGE

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SLATE
TRIBE
TINGE
After #1, 20 words occurred to me as fitting.
All but two of them (Untie, Mitre) began with T; 8 of those with TR.
Of these 13 were already used and 4 (Trine, Trike, Tinge, Mitre)
weren’t Wardle words. Possibilities were Tribe, Truce and Tepee.
Normally it’s best to ask a “sleuth word” at #2, eliminating 5 or 4 more
letters, but I gambled and repeated the T & E.
So I asked Tribe expecting an Eagle or Birdie. Ouch, #2 eliminated all three possibilities!
Without further ado, I gambled that NYT had used TWO non-Wardle words in a row!

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Wordle 1608 3/6

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SLANT
UNITY
TINGE

TONIC and TOXIN, that pair of opposites, had already been used.

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Wordle 1,608 5/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 1,608 3/6*

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Adorn
Tunes
Tinge

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PIANO
GUEST
TINGE

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Wordle 1,608 4/6* 11/13/2025

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DEUCE → Terminal E, and the only one. A quite nice start, but I need to get the consonants, so
SLATE → It would be nice to get O & I both here, but I’ll settle for finishing the WoFcons. I didn’t know this was a word, but Wordle took it
TRONE → N must be in the middle, and must be preceded by I (or Y, but I don’t see any such words). TINIE might be possible, but what I see is
TINGE

My WoFcon obsession avoids the trap for par. Scoredle, on the other hand, falls right into it with its fourth guess and takes the loss, so I guess I’ve got that going for me.

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Wordle 1,609 3/6

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Wordle 1,608 3/6

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HEART
SMITE
TINGE

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