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

Wordle 1,680 4/6

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HEART
SPOIL
FLUID
CLIFF

Wordle 1,681 4/6
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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: :innocent: no Ai :kangaroo:
Made me work :shovel:

Wordle 1,680 4/6

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CRANE
HOISE
CLIMB
CLIFF

Wordle 1,680 5/6

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BUYER
AMINO
TWILL
SLICK
CLIFF

Wordle 1,680 6/6*

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Taker
Dough
Lippy
Swill
Climb
Cliff

Wordle 1,680 3/6*

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STEAL
DOILY
CLIFF

Wordle 1,680 4/6* 1/24/2026

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BARON → Whiff. I can KO the last three WoFcons and the next two vowels with
STILE → Now what? Some thinking convinced me there’s probably no other vowel here, and then I tried various consonants paired with that L until I saw
FLICK → Which leaves just
CLIFF

Pretty straightforward, although I did have to think a while before my third guess. Scoredle suffers for having to go for a terminal-S with its second guess; it takes another guess to eliminate the last regular vowel and then duplicates my last two guesses, ending in a bogey.

Wordle 1,680 4/6

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BREAD
TONIC
CLICK
CLIFF

A whiff to a par ain’t bad there, Normy!

Wordle 1,681 5/6

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RATIO
TRUCE
BURNT
SCRUM
STRUT

I got stuck after three so decided to at least place the U and hunt for letters.

Wordle 1,681 5/6 SUNDAY

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AUDIO
PRUNE
SHRUG
SCRUB
STRUT

An interesting pattern developed here…

Wordle 1,681 4/6 — 2026-01-25 Sun
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STEALpossibles include stick stiff sting stink stint stock stoic stomp stony stood stoop stork storm story stout strip strop strum strut stuck study stuff stump stung stunk stunt stymy; but previous Wordles have included stick stiff sting stink stint stock stoic stomp stony stood stork storm story stout study stump stung stunt; so the remaining possibles include stoop strip strop strum strut stuck stuff stunk stymy; of these the most likely include strip strum strut stuck stuff stunk
STRIP
STRUM
STRUT

Wordle 1,681 4/6*

\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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}\bbox[lime,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}

Wordle 1,681 3/6

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TAPER
SHORT
STRUT

Wordle 1,681 3/6 SUNDAY

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SLATE
CHOIR
STRUT

Wordle 1,681 3/6

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RADIO
STREP
STRUT

Wordle 1,681 3/6*

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Joist
Spurt
Strut

Wordle 1,681 2/6*

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STEAL
STRUT

Wordle 1,681 4/6* 1/25/2026

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CLIFF → Another whiff. The abundant first guesses second often use L, which is the only WoFcon gone so far, so I’ll try
TEARS → Three letters, not bad. Gotta find where they go, though, and some vowels to go with them. Ooh, I can try O & Y with
STORY → a word that duplicated the R placement, oh well. At least I placed the other two. So there’s gotta be a U, and it’s pretty much gotta be 4th, STRU? could be STRUM or
STRUT

My third-guess misplay ended up being a lucky error - and then I compounded the luck by holing a 50-50 for par. Happy with how it turned out; could have gone south in a hurry. Scoredle has a lucky day as well; after making an anagram of my second guess, it goes straight to the answer on its third on a 1-in-6 shot. Maybe Scoredle and I should buy lottery tickets today.

Wordle 1,681 4/6

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BUYER
VIRUS
STRUM (lost the coin toss)
STRUT