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

Wordle 1,630 3/6

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SLATE
CRONY
AMONG
OK; I’m a fickle guy. Miss Slate has the two best vowels;
let me have a date with her now and then.
Was Among the only word possible? (Crony eliminated my Agony.)

Wordle 1630 3/6

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SLANT
MAGNA
AMONG

MAGNA was a good second word here, placing the A and checking for the M and G which were two frequent consonants among :wink: the possibilities after 1.

Scoredle says Yes.

Wordle 1,630 3/6

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LEAST
AUDIO
AMONG

Wordle 1,631 2/6

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Wordle 1,630 3/6

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HEART
GUANO well that wasn’t too bright, we know A isn’t #3
AMONG

Wordle 1,630 3/6

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BUYER
AVOID
AMONG

Wordle 1,630 6/6* 12/5/2025

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TULIP → Whiff. Upon reflection, I should have gone SNARE here, but I saw this quick and acted
SONAR → And so that’s not too bad - all WoFcons checked, E still stands out as omitted, but I might not have to check it. Anyway, I saw another word quick that shuffled the letters around, so I tried it
BACON → No help there, and I’ve checked the two most likely vowel placements. Perhaps I do have an E, as in the end of
ANODE → Nope, although I have all three letters placed now (the N by elimination). A?ON?, first thing that comes to mind (with a bogey now assured) is
AGONY → Dang it! Am I going to lose? Move G to end, A?ONG, ALONG Is gone, gotta be
AMONG

Other than that third guess, I made some progress at every stage, so why do I feel so bummed? Maybe it’s because Scoredle made a very clean par for this puzzle, and has a virtual tap-in for that par after getting only yellows up to that point?

Wordle 1,630 3/6*

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STEAL
PRAWN
AMONG

Lucked out on the final word, there were still over 30 available words. (Not sure how many were slready used, though.)

Wordle 1,630 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
AGONY
AMONG

Wordle 1,630 3/6

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OUGHT
GROAN
AMONG

An interesting pick from the word generator netted me a G, which was nice. Then I made a good follow-up choice, if I do say so myself.

ALONG and AGONY were still possible, so there was some luck in this birdie. I was due for a little.

Wordle 1,630 5/6*

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Chode
Flown
Snoop
Knock
Among

Swidt.

Wordle 1,631 4/6

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RATIO
FAITH
SAINT
WAIST

Wordle 1,631 4/6 SATURDAY

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AUDIO
IMAGE
FAIRY
WAIST

Wordle 1,631 2/6

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SLATE
WAIST
Several words fit, but most had the forbidden S-in-5th.
Canst is archaic, Angst already-used. Waist was otherwise
all I could think of. (I will try the app RTFirefly linked to
after errands.)
Dear, dear Miss Slate: Thank you for the “Eagle”! I won’t go
playing with those teasers down in the one-vowel district anymore.

Could’ve been a 5, but fortunately got a 4.

Wordle 1,631 4/6 — Sat 06 Dec 2025-12-06
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STEAK
COLIN
UPDRYpossibles include vista waist; of these the most likely include waist
WAISTbingo

Added — nicely done @MacDoc, @Gordon_G!

Wordle 1,631 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1631 2/6

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SLANT
WAIST

I was able to come up with four possibilities: ASCOT, ASSET, KARST, and WAIST. The first two had already been solutions, and while as a caver, KARST is a familiar term to me, it’s probably less so to most people. So WAIST it was, for the 2.

Wordle 1,631 3/6

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LEAST
ANGST
WAIST
Two possible words after 1, picked the wrong one again.

Wordle 1,631 5/6

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HEART
ADOPT
GAUNT
TACIT
WAIST

Glad to see others using a look up for used solutions. I consider it a flaw in the game that used solutions are not blocked out automatically. FWIW

Case in point
Wordle 1,632 2/6

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