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

Wordle 1,662 5/6

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WRITE
SALON
DOUGH
POOCH
OOMPH

Seriously?

Wordle 1,662 5/6

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BUYER
AVOID
LOTTO
NOHOW
OOMPH

Wordle 1,663 4/6 WEDNESDAY

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AUDIO
FRAME
PEACH
PECAN

Wordle 1,663 5/6

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RATIO
SHALE
ANNEX
BEGAN
PECAN

Wordle 1,663 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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,663 3/6 WEDNESDAY

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SLATE
WRONG
PECAN
Uh oh. The --y-y start is what led me to a Triple Bogey back on #1614.
It seems Wrong to waste a slot on O (thinking only of Oaken); I’d much rather ask
WARNG or such to locate the A, but Warng isn’t a word. This is a disadvantage of
Slate – A in 3rd position seems very useful in forming sleuth words.
Pecan is a Wardle word so the percentage play: The only other word I could
think of was Naked, a non-Wardle word.

Wordle 1663 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
PECAN

Welcome to the Wordle thread, and thanks for deleting quickly!

Doing the spoiler is easy, just not obvious at first glance. You highlight the text you want to hide, then you click on the black circle in the upper right with the + sign in it, and then scroll aaaallll the way down to ‘Blur Spoiler’ and click on that. The text you highlighted should be blurred.

Wordle 1,663 3/6

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STEAL
CEDAR
PECAN

Wordle 1,664 2/6
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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: :eagle: :sparkler: no Ai :kangaroo:
A nice treat on a rainy night.

Thank you so much! I had written a short diatribe yesterday about how much I hated the word - probably a good thing that one got deleted. :slight_smile:

WORSE
DEITY
PENAL
PECAN

Wordle 1,663 5/6

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BUYER
GEOID
WEAVE
PENAL
PECAN

Wordle 1,663 3/6* 1/7/2026

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OOMPH → Huh. E, A and two WoFcons. SPEAR? NEAPS? LAPSE? I finally settled on
PEARL → Thought about PENTA for a sec then decided on
PECAN

Second guess was 27/1026, so about 97% percentile in terms of skill, and turned out lucky as well. My first thought for the third guess is a complete non-word, so it looks like I had a tap-in for birdie, which is nice. Scoredle places only one letter with its second guess, then tries to place another by duping it for its third guess, leaving it with a tap-in par.

Wordle 1,663 3/6

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HEART
LEGAL
PECAN

Sometimes it’s better to be lucky, than good!

Wordle 1,664 2/6 — 2026-01-08 Thu
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{Day 25 of 30 from the Philippines}

WOO-HOO!!

Wordle 1,663 3/6

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CRANE - wow, this only leaveS a couple of words
OCEAN - well, crap
PECAN

Looks like you’ve figured out the spoiler! One quirk: you can spoiler part of a paragraph, or you can spoiler a paragraph or a whole sequence of paragraphs with a single spoiler tag. But if you spoiler one paragraph and part of another, you need to do two separate spoilers for that.

Yeah, once I figured out yesterday’s solution, I figured some people would be unhappy with it. Well, HUMPH*, I say to that! :wink:

*The solution to Wordle #3.

Wordle 1,663 2/6*

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STEAL
PECAN

Wordlebot says I had 15 answers after my first guess, so this is a pretty lucky guess! (Although quite a few were on the used word list.)

Wordle 1,664 3/6

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TRAIL
DEALT
BLAST