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

Wordle 1,612 4/6

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HEART
SLAIN
CLACK
CLAMP

Wordle 1,613 3/6

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Wordle 1,612 4/6

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SLATE
CLANK
CLAIM
CLAMP
After the Double-green I compiled a list of 21 words of which 13 were already used
and one (Alack) is marked archaic in some dictionaries and isn’t a Wardle word.
I was left with Flaky, Flack, Claim, Clamp and three onomatopoeia words –
Clack, Clang, Clank. The latter word guaranteed a Three except for the Claim/Clamp
case. Then I guessed wrong.

Didn’t post yesterday’s…

Wordle 1,611 6/6* 11/16/2025

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CLUNG → Slow start, and I can’t use the Scoredle first word second, so I’ll try
LEAST → Which was somewhat productive. With O & R still out there, I can change position on my known letters with
MOREL → Not much luck. I is left of the vowels, I tried to think of a word with it but the best I could come up with was
BIBLE → Placed I is nice at this stage. ?IEL? looks like
FIELD → or perhaps
WIELD
YIELD
, I think had already been used. Or maybe I just got lucky - which would have been about the first instance thereof on this puzzle.

And today’s… sorry to break up the streak of threes.

Wordle 1,612 6/6* 11/17/2025

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WIELD → Well, that’s something. For some reason, I’m hankering to try vowels at the moment, so I’ll go with
ROYAL → One vowel left, and I can try it along with two WoFcons with
TALUS → No help there. Do I have a repeated A? I’d better check the last WoFcon and more consonants first
BLANK → Still only two letters down! I do feel like I need to check for repeats, which means
LLAMA → No repeats, but a hit with the M, which might be my first stroke of luck on today’s puzzle. Let’s see, ?LAM?, browse through remaining letters for compatible consonants gives us (I hope this is right)
CLAMP

Two straight Phew!s in a row. Scoredle at least approved of my fifth guess, though if I had made its fourth guess I probably would have make the bogey. With less attention to the vowels, Scoredle finishes with a par.

Wordle 1,612 4/6*

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SNIDE
ABOUT
CRACK
CLAMP

Wordle 1,612 4/6

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BUYER
AVOID (That does it for vowels)
SLANT (WoFcons dealt with)
CLAMP

Wordle 1,612 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
CLAMP

Wordle 1,612 3/6

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DEPTH
CRISP
CLAMP

The middle vowel could have been an O or a U, so I could have flailed a lot more here. Picking A made me look smart.

But lest anyone think I actually am smart, yesterday’s WEILD handed me a rough six. I didn’t even see the _IELD trap until halfway through, and of course went for F, Y, and W in that order. :man_facepalming:t3: (Wasn’t trying to hide it from y’all; I just had a very busy day and didn’t get here to post it.)

Wordle 1,613 3/6 TUESDAY

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AUDIO
POINT
OPINE

Nice word.

Wordle 1,613 3/6

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RATIO
LOINS
OPINE

Wordle 1,613 3/6 — Tue 18 Nov 2025-11-18
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STEAK
COLIN
OPINE

Wordle 1613 3/6

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SLANT
GRODY
OPINE

Wordle 1,613 3/6

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SLATE
ROUND
OPINE
I got the Green-E a week ago, followed it with Round
and scored a Birdie. Why change a good thing?
After Round, words were Ozone, Phone (both already used),
Ovine (uncommon), and – (only other possibility?) – Opine.

Wordle 1,613 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[yellow,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \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 E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \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 E} \\ \end{aligned}

Stupid boy. I thought of OPINE before OVINE…

Wordle 1,613 2/6*

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Prole
Opine

Wordle 1,613 3/6

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LEAST
POUND
OPINE

Wordle 1,613 4/6

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BUYER
GEOID
OVINE (I’ve been doing too many NYT crosswords lately)
OPINE

Wordle 1,614 4/6

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Wordle 1,613 5/6* 11/18/2025

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CLAMP → Near-whiff. I’ll try O & E and two WoFcons
POSER → O & E worked, not so the WoFcons. So then I goofed with a repeat M
TEMPO → which at least let me eliminate the T, and I covered the N with
PHONE → despite it trying the initial P again, but it was worth it because all that was left was
OPINE

There were three nonbogus words left after my second guess; naturally, my third and fourth guesses were none of them. Sigh. Scoredle gets a par, using a second guess that is obscure and a third guess that is completely bogus, but that combine to give it a tap-in. Ah, well.

Wordle 1,613 4/6

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HEART
GLOVE
NOOSE
OPINE