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

Wordle 1,622 3/6

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Wordle 1,621 4/6

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HEART
HYPED
HIVES
HOVEL

Wordle 1,621 3/6*

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STEAL
CRUEL
HOVEL

Wordle 1,621 5/6* 11/26/2025

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PLEAD β†’ OK, not bad. If I move them over one, what can I get? LENTS? Maybe I need another vowel. It was late, so I tried
LEFTY β†’ which was of very little help. So then I added an I and tried
RILES β†’ Which at least placed both letters. With N still unused, I wanted to go for
NOVEL β†’ and for some reason I felt like I made a guess on this next one recently, but hey it’s gotta be the answer
HOVEL

A very lucky guess on four pulls me out of a potential tough position. Scoredle finishes with a bogey, taking a side trip to place one of the starting letters, then after the third guess they still have eight valid possibles, leading to a 50-50 for bogey (which it nails).

Wordle 1,621 4/6

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BUYER
OAKEN
VOWEL
HOVEL

Wordle 1,621 3/6

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LUNCH
HALVE
HOVEL

I needed vowels, so I found a word with two of them (rather than a double L, which was my first thought). Hitting that V was just a stroke of luck. Tap-in for the birdie!

Wordle 1,621 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
HOPED
HOKEY
HOVEL

Wordle 1,622 4/6 THURSDAY

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AUDIO
RELIC
RESIN
REMIT

Wordle 1,622 2/6

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RATIO
REMIT

Wordle 1,622 4/6 β€” Thu 27 Nov 2025-11-27
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STEAK
COLIN
UPDRY
REMIT

Wordle 1,622 3/6

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SMART
MERIT
REMIT

Wordle 1,622 4/6*

\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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1622 3/6 Happy Thanksgiving!

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SLANT
CHORE
REMIT

After 2, all the possibilities that didn’t begin with RE- had already been used. REBUT had been used too, and that left REMIT as the only word where the RE- wasn’t a prefix. Not that that would exclude a word from being a solution, but those that have already been used, like RETRY and REUSE, are in common use, and the only one like that that would have worked here was REFIT, but I liked REMIT better, and if it was REFIT, I’d still get a 4.

This was my 1400th Wordle. My first was #202, SLUMP (got a 6, I used ADIEU as my starting word), and the last game I missed was #390, LIVER.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

This was my 1167th Wordle. My first was #189, the Wordle was WEARY, and I got it in 3. I don’t recall what my starting word was but here is my post about that ➜ "Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 1) - #3 by Bullitt β– 

Wordle 1,622 4/6

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LEAST
POUND
REFIT
REMIT

Wordle 1,622 3/6

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TREND
COALS
REMIT
After Coals, I thought of 15 words, of which 4 were non-Wardles, 9 were already-used.
Left with only Remit and Refit I guessed right.

Wordle 1,622 3/6*

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STEAL
CRUET
REMIT

Happy Thanksgiving, y’all!

Wordle 1,623 3/6

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Wordle 1,622 3/6

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BUYER
AROSE
REMIT