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

Oops, yes. I just fixed that.

Wordle 1,677 3/6*

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Inlet
Audio
Cubic

Wordle 1,678 5/6 THURSDAY

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AUDIO
PRIME
THING
SLINK
CLINK

Wordle 1,678 4/6

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Wordle 1,678 4/6

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RATIO
SHINE
CLING
CLINK

Wordle 1,678 3/6 THURSDAY

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SLATE
BLIND
CLINK

Wordle 1,678 5/6 — 2026-01-22 Thu

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STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY
CHINK
CLINK

Wordle 1,678 5/6*

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HOIST
GRIME
QUILL
FLICK
CLINK

Wordle 1,678 4/6*

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Parse
Built
Cling
Clink

Wordle 1,678 5/6

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STARE
POUND
WHINY
BLINK
CLINK

Wordle 1,678 5/6

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HEART
SPOIL
FLUID
BLINK
CLINK

Wordle 1,679 3/6
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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: :bird: no Ai :innocent: :kangaroo:
Nice quick birdy :wink:

Wordle 1,678 3/6*

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STEAL
LURCH
CLINK

Wordle 1,678 4/6* 1/22/2026

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CUBIC → One and only one C. Now that’s the kind of repeat letter that I like! And it’s placed! My cup runneth over. Not sure I’m gong to get to all the WoFcons today. I is most likely in the middle, I can try an A and a WoFcon with
CHINA → R or L? I don’t think it’s CLINT. Let’s try a G…
CLING → Or maybe a K
CLINK
HOGAN
could be tomorrow’s, right? Getting those first couple of letters, one placed, seems like this should have been better than a par, right? Scoredle has the same pair of ending words, and settles for par itself. My second guess was 5th on Scoredle’s list of possibles, so I did almost as well as the algorithm did. There weren’t many possibles with a terminal S after the initial guess, oddly, so they didn’t occupy a huge chunk of the solution space like usual.

Wordle 1,678 3/6

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BUYER
AMINO
CLINK

Wordle 1,678 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST - which leaves two words
CLING - I have chosen. . .poorly.
CLINK

Wordle 1,678 5/6

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GRAND
STONE
WHINY
BLINK
CLINK

I built me a little orange tower today.

Been busy the past few days, time to catch up.
Monday (Wordle #1675) was my 1000th consecutive win, and the streak continues from there.

Wordle 1675 5/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
VEGAN
WAXEN

(Not sure there’s a need to blur it, three days later, but force of habit.)

Wordle 1676 3/6

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SLANT
SKULL
SULLY

Wordle 1677 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
CUBIC

This was one where a dead-trees dictionary was helpful. The solution had to start with CI, CU, or CY, and a lot of the potential third letters had been knocked out already, which meant that I only had to look through a few pages. I came across only one other possibility besides the solution, and CIVIC had already been used.

Wordle 1678 3/6

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SLANT
BLIND
CLINK

CLING and FLING had already been used, and I was betting it wasn’t PLINK.

Wordle 1,678 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
CLING
CLINK

I might have gotten it in fewer guesses if I’d had more than 3 minutes before the end of the day.

Wordle 1,679 3/6 FRIDAY

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AUDIO
SOAPY
BARON