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

Wordle 1,655 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
DECOR

Wordle 1,655 4/6* 12/30/2025

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FRUIT β†’ Well, that’s something, and it lines up a good first word second.
LEARN β†’ Nice pickup. I thought about trying to find a word here with both O & Y, but decided there probably wasn’t one with an E in second. So prefering the O, and exercising the S, meant
RESOD β†’ D! Well that was a stroke of luck. Only three combinations left, and working through them I see one word
DECOR

Going into my third guess, Scoredle shows 150 possibles, and I chose the 114th. It led to a tap-in par, which makes it a mighty lucky guess (though the number of possibles is expanded by a lot of regular plurals). Scordle’s second guess (an aggressive placement play) leads it to a tap-in birdie - five possibles, four bogus.

Wordle 1,655 5/6

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HEART
REPIN
MERGE
DEMUR
DECOR

Wordle 1,655 4/6

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FRAME
LINER
RECUR
DECOR

More of an abbreviation than a word, IMO. Hated wasting a double letter, but it got me to the par, so whatever.

Wordle 1,656 3/6

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RATIO
SHIRE
SIREN

Wordle 1,656 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SIREN

I had all 5 letters pegged, but still had three very plausible answers! I got lucky.

Wordle 1,656 3/6 WEDNESDAY

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AUDIO
PRIME
SIREN

Wordle 1,656 3/6*

\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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \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 N} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,656 3/6

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SLATE
RHINO
SIREN
I had the same GxxxY start a week ago and played Rhino then.
This time I tried Rhein but reverted when that β€œword” was not accepted.
Fve hits! What else could it be? A Sinner who gave an N as penance?

Wordle 1656 3/6

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SLANT
SNORE
SIREN

Wordle 1,657 3/6
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Happy New Year from down under

Wordle 1,656 3/6*

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STEAL
SNORE
SIREN

Happy New Year! :blue_heart:

Wordle 1,656 4/6

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HEART
BONER
RIPEN
SIREN

Wordle 1,656 4/6

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STEAL
POUND
SINCE
SIREN

I won the coin toss to get it in 3.

Wordle 1,657 3/6 β€” 2026-01-01 Thu
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{Day 18 of 30 from the Philippines}

Wordle 1,656 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST - wow, all five letters, so the answer MUST be. . .
RISEN - what an idiot
SIREN

Wordle 1,656 3/6

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BUYER
AIRED
SIREN

Happy New Year, mate!

Hey, we started the same! But i was luckier.

Wordle 1,656 3/6* New Year's Eve 2025

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DECOR β†’ Huh. Words with both RE- prefixes and -ER suffixes are excluded. So what’s left? I decided to bite the bullet with a regular plural / third person singular verb…
RATES β†’ And once I started looking at the I, it was pretty obviously
SIREN
SPREE and SHREW
were also possible, so my cocky third guess conclusion was unwarranted. Scoredle narrows it down to 27 possibles with its second guess, but then fails to see that the answer is the only nonbogus word on its list - the only one without a terminal S - so it guesses one of the bogus ones, and ends up with a par.