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

Wordle 1,660 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
DOUSE
LOOSE
POSSE

Wordle 1,660 5/6

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BUYER
GEOID
HAOLE (Dumb!)
EMOTE (DAMMIT!)
POSSE

Wordle 1,660 3/6*

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STEAL
PURSE
POSSE

Tells a story!

Wordle 1,660 3/6

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HEART
SPINE
POSSE

I wish we had a “like” button.

Wordle 1,661 4/6 — 2026-01-05 Mon
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{Day 22 of 30 from the Philippines}

Whoops, forgot to post this morning.

Wordle 1,660 3/6

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STEAL
PROUD
POSSE

Yesss

Wordle 1,661 5/6

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RATIO
SHINE
FILCH
FILMY
FILLY

Wordle 1,661 5/6 MONDAY

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AUDIO
PRIME
TINNY
SILLY
FILLY

Wordle 1,661 3/6 MONDAY

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SLATE
DOILY
FILLY
I’ve had the yellow-L start 4 times before, though not recently.
I go with Doily, which has now netted me 4 Birdies and a Par.
Is such consistency boring? In these perilous times I heed Erich Fromm’s advice
“Man cannot live without some degree of stability and consistency.” :face_savoring_food:
When I realized that I’d stumbled into the Billy/Willy/Hilly/Filly silliness
I regretted Doily, which eliminates only a single consonant. But D was the best
consonant to eliminate! (Dilly and Dimly).
Hilly was already use; Willy perhaps obscene; Billy obscure; so the choice was easy.

Wordle 1,661 5/6

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STEAL
POUND
MILKY
HILLY
FILLY

I cannot post my result today as i have no internet access and it’s far too tricky on this smartphone thingy! I’ll try to remember to post tomorrow when a new router has arrived.

Wordle 1,662 5/6
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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: :face_with_symbols_on_mouth: Ai Assisted :kangaroo:

Wordle 1,661 5/6

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BUYER
SOAPY
TINNY
FILCH
FILLY

Wordle 1,661 6/6* 1/5/2026

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POSSE → Whiff. And a wasted S. I have a dilemma on my next move - do I try as a railfan or as a hiker?
TRAIN → Railfan. Probably should have tried hiker. Now I’d like to try both U and Y, but I can’t see a word that does both, so I’ll try Y, then move the I over and what happens when I double up on that last WoFcon?
HILLY → A trap, that’s what! I wonder how many of these possibles are valid solutions? Ah well, let’s try them one by one
BILLY → OK, not the goat vs. the sub-bridge troll. DQ ice cream bar time?
DILLY → Nope. Guess I’ll try the horse one
FILLY
DIMLY
would have been a better third guess, to shrink the trap. Scoredle says there were three more trap words left, and I have no idea how many of them were valid. On its own solve, Scoredle finds the trap in three, solves in five, and has five more possibles left after it solves - so that’s a nine-trap, worse than the -OUND and -ATCH traps, if all the words are valid solutions.

Wordle 1,661 4/6

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HEART
SPOIL
FLING
FILLY

Wordle 1,661 5/6

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Wordle 1,662 5/6 — 2026-01-06 Tue
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{Day 23 of 30 from the Philippines}

Wordle 1,661 3/6*

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STEAL
DOLLY
FILLY