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

Wordle 1,635 2/6

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HEART
ERASE

Wordle 1,636 3/6

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nassssty

Wordle 1,635 3/6* 12/10/2025

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SNIDE → Not bad, but I’ve got at least one more vowel in there, and three WoFcons outstanding. I’d like to try seven letters (counting those I already have) out of a five-letter word, which is rather difficult. Let’s see what I can do with
TARSE → I chose wisely. If I swap A & R, I can try a bunch of consonants to fit in ?RASE…which there were none, but it turns out a vowel goes well there
ERASE
AROSE
was also possible. It’s a nice birdie, but it relied on some luck - my second guess was about 46th out of 138 possibles left after my start, but it made the actual birdie putt a 50-50. Scoredle uses a double letter guess to go for placement on its second guess, then its third guess leaves a tap-in for par.

Wordle 1,635 3/6

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BUYER
AROSE
ERASE

Wordle 1,635 4/6*

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Latch
Adorn
Raise
Erase

Wordle 1,635 4/6

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CRANE - aw crap, a trap
PRATE
BRAKE
ERASE

I feel lucky to have gotten it in four.

Wordle 1,635 3/6*

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STEAL
JEANS
ERASE

Wordle 1,636 5/6 THURSDAY

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AUDIO
LUMPY
QUEEN
GUEST
GUESS

Slow and steady gets there in the end.

Wordle 1,636 3/6

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RATIO
LUNES
GUESS

Wordle 1,636 4/6*

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

Wordle 1,636 3/6 — 2025-12-11 Thu
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STEAL
BOUND
GUESS

Wordle 1,636 4/6*

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cabal
Grope
Guest
Guess

Wordle 1,636 3/6

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STEAL
PROUD
GUESS

Wordle 1,636 3/6

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SLATE
CROPS
GUESS
Crops seemed like a good sleuth word and,
sure enough, I was left with only a Guess.

Wordle 1,636 4/6

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HEART
SPINE
LOESS
GUESS

Wordle 1,636 4/6*

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STEAL
OBESE
DRESS
GUESS

Wordle 1,636 4/6* 12/11/2025

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ERASE → One-and-only-one E, and a placed S. That’s a good start. Three WoFcons left, but I can’t try them all with this layout, but I can get two with
BLEST → E in the middle - perhaps the only vowel? If so, I don’t need to check N, so let’s try a good double-consonant start (and check for a second S to boot) - I feel really close here, so maybe I need to start focusing on words over patterns
CHESS → Huh, got the second S. There’s another vowel, or so I would
GUESS
LOESS was KOed by BLEST
earlier, so that made the par putt a tap-in for me. Scoredle gets a birdie, converting a 1-in-3-or-5 (two of the words I would consider near- but possibly non-bogus) putt from the fringe to take the hole.

Wordle 1,636 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
GUESS

A healthy dose of dumb luck here.

Wordle 1,636 3/6

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BUYER
QUESO
GUESS (Dammit, I want my “Q” word!

…okay, I’ll take the birdie, I suppose.)

Wordle 1,637 4/6
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