Wordle 1,651 3/6
STEAL
CHORD
SPEED
Wordle 1,652 4/6
no Ai 
Wordle 1,651 4/6*
Winch
Boxer
Sleet
Speed
Wordle 1,651 3/6* Boxing Day 2025
PRISM → Well, this is something to work with. Needs more vowels, SPEAR would be nice but I don’t need the R, can I get something near it?
SPEAL → Yep, Wordle comes through on the bogus word. Let’s see, if there’s another vowel it’s probably another E, or if consonants could be SPECK, SPEND (or SPENT!). I feel like we’ve already done SPECK, and maybe one of the other two, so I’ll take a flyer on
SPEED
May be the luckiest birdie I’ve had at this game. My second guess isn’t even in the top 120 possibles, per Scoredle, and a six was possible if that third guess was badly wrong. Scoredle also pars, with a guess of beauty for its last - out of 14 valid possibles (one of which was SUNUP! Heh) it went straight for the right one.
Wordle 1,651 4/6*
STEAL
SCENE
SHEEP
SPEED
Wordle 1,651 4/6
BUYER
MIMEO
APNEA
SPEED
Wordle 1,651 4/6
HEART
SPINE
SPELL
SPEED
Wordle 1,652 3/6 — 2025-12-27 Sat
{Day 13 of 30 from the Philippines}
Wordle 1,651 3/6
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ABOUT
LINER
SPEED
A second E was pretty much a given. I happened to pick the right word from the half-dozen or so legit possibilities.
Wordle 1,652 4/6
BLARE
BASIC
BACON
BATCH
Wordle 1,652 5/6
RATIO
LATHE
MATCH
COWPS
BATCH
Had to find a sleuth word to narrow it down and check for either a C or H start.
Wordle 1,652 6/6
CHAIN
PATCH
WATCH
LATCH
HATCH
BATCH
Hard mode, I don’t check previous.
Could still have been a couple of others as well!
Wordle 1,652 4/6 SATURDAY
AUDIO
FRAME
PATCH
BATCH
Wordle 1,652 3/6 SATURDAY
SLATE
TAINT
BATCH
I’ve kept track of my #2 guesses for the distinct answers to #1 Slate.
In #1605 I asked Taint and in the thread discussed how it seemed a good
clue despite introducing only one new consonant. If I don’t trust myself from
a month ago, who am I going to trust?
In that old analysis I’d noted that Match was already-used but overlooked
five words that rhyme with Match. 
Fortunately all but one of those were also already-used. 
Wordle 1,652 4/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 1652 3/6
SLANT
CHORE
BATCH
HATCH, MATCH, PATCH, WATCH had already been used, untrapping the trap. If they hadn’t, sleuth words like BUMPY, WIMPY, and HUMPH, the last of which was the solution to Wordle #3, were available.
I was a bit disappointed that ZATCH (from James Thurber’s The Thirteen Clocks) couldn’t even be used as a guess.
Didn’t post yesterday, so here’s Wordle #1651 (4/6):
SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
SPEED
Wordle 1,652 5/6
RAISE
POUND
WATCH
Could be batch catch hatch latch match
CLIMB
BATCH
Wordle 1,653 3/6
no Ai