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

Catching up again:

Wordle 1680 4/6

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SLANT
PLUME
BLOOD
CLIFF

Wordle 1681 3/6

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SLANT
WHORE
STRUT

Wordle 1682 5/6

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SLANT
CHORE
WEDGY
FAKER
FREAK

After my third guess, Scoredle recommended PARER for my next guess. Um, NO.

This was my third 5 in the past 10 days. Grrr. Argh.

Wordle 1,683 4/6 TUESDAY

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AUDIO
DUMPY
DUSTY
DUSKY

wrong thread

Wordle 1,683 5/6

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RATIO
LUNES
MUSHY
FUSSY
DUSKY

Wordle 1,683 3/6 β€” 2026-01-27 Tue

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STEAL
BOUND β€” possibles include dufus dusky
DUSKY

Wordle 1,683 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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y}

Wordle 1,683 5/6

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BUYER
PUPPY
MUDDY
DUSTY
DUSKY

Wordle 1,683 3/6*

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Deice
Dumpy
Dusky

Wordle 1,683 4/6

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SLATE
PINCH
MUSKY
DUSKY

Was this a STEAL at LEAST?

Wordle 1,683 3/6

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RADIO
STYLE
DUSKY

Wordle 1,684 5/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: :innocent: no Ai :kangaroo:

Wordle 1,683 5/6

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HEART
SPOIL
FUSSY
MUSKY
DUSKY

Wordle 1,683 3/6* 1/27/2026

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FREAK β†’ Nice pickup of a rarer consonant, at least. Two vowels and two WoFcons, or one vowel and three WoFcons? I think about both, but end up trying the latter
LINKS β†’ And the K is placed! But I’ve no vowels, and I’d really like to try two with this next guess. If I take a terminal Y, I can try
DUSKY

Never been so glad for mishearing β€œTake Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver than today - that got me this birdie! Otherwise, I’d be posting something about avoiding Teslas or large dogs at all costs. Scoredle hits the trap and ends up bogeying the hole. Brings a teardrop in my eye.

Wordle 1,683 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SLUMP
FUSSY
DUSKY

Lucky to recover from that poor start.

Wordle 1,683 3/6*

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STEAL
BISON
DUSKY

Wordle 1,683 5/6

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TWICE
SNARL
BOGUS
PUSHY
DUSKY

Not my week so far.
MUSKY or FUSSY would have led to my second straight six, and the less-likely MUSSY would have meant a fail. So I guess I should be happy with the bogey!

Yeah I realized that too and came here to address that. It was a typo from my notes, and you are correct in what you asked.

I have a running notepad record of this game. E.g.,

Wordle 1,682 4/6 β€” 2026-01-26 Mon
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LEAST
BOUND
PRIVY
FREAK

An interesting pattern developed here…
Wordle 1,681 4/6 β€” 2026-01-25 Sun
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STEAL β€” possibles 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 1,680 5/6 β€” 2026-01-24 Sat
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STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY
CLICK
CLIF F

Wordle 1,679 3/6 β€” 2026-01-23 Fri
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STEAL
BOUND
BARON β€” bacon had already been us ed

Wordle 1,678 5/6 β€” 2026-01-22 Thu
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STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY
CHINK
CL INK

Wordle 1,677 4/6 β€” 2026-01-21 Wed
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STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY
C UBIC

Wordle 1,676 3/6 β€” 2026-01-20 Tue
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STEAL
BOUND
SULLY

My streakWordle is now 250. My maxStreakWordle is 267.
➜ "Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 3) - #6493 by Bullitt β–  ←

Wordle 1,675 5/6 β€” 2026-01-19 Mon
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STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY β€” possibles include annex mange waken waxen; but previous Wordles have included annex; so the remaining possibles include mange waken waxen
WAKEN
WAXEN

Wordle 1,674 4/6 β€” 2026-01-18 Sun
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STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY
SUMAC

Wordle 1,673 4/6 β€” 2026-01-17 Sat
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STEAL
BOUND
PRIV Y
FIERY

➜ "Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 3) - #6430 by Bullitt β– 
Wow, this one really had me worried. After 3 guesses there were still 14(!) possible answers. Fortunately my 4th guess, a sleuth word, gave me a 4th letter which narrowed things down quite nicely.
My streak lives on at 246, as I near my longest streak of 267.
I barely eeked this one out.
Wordle 1,672 5/6 β€” 2026-01-16 Fri
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STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY β€” possibles include agree aware cager carer eager facer faker farce gamer gazer harem maker racer rager raker rarer reach rearm rewax wafer wager waxer; but previous Wordles have included agree aware eager farce gamer maker reach wafer; so the remaining possibles include cager carer facer faker gazer harem racer rager raker rarer rearm rewax wager waxer; of these the most likely include faker gazer harem racer rager raker rarer rearm rewax wager waxer; letters to eliminate are F K G Z H C K M W X; can try sleuth word(s) cough ?
COUGH β€” remaining possibles now include facer rac er
RACER

I’m now back home in California.
Wordle 1,671 4/6 β€” 2026-01-15 Thu
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STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY β€” possibles include amass awash chasm; but previous Wordles have included amass aw ash
CHASM

Wordle 1,670 4/6 β€” 2026-01-14 Wed
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{Day 31 of 31, was in the Philippines; am in Seoul S Korea, transferring}
My guesses were:
STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY
AVOID

Wordle 1,669 5/6 β€” 2026-01-13 Tue
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{Day 30 of 31 from the Philippines}
My guesses were:
STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY
JUMBO
GUMBO

Wordle 1,668 4/6 β€” 2026-01-12 Mon
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{Day 29 of 31 from the Philippines}
My guesses were:
STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY
TRIAL

Wordle 1,667 4/6 β€” 2026-01-11 Sun
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{Day 28 of 30 from the Philippines}
My guesses were:
STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY β€” possibles include augur jumar quark;
of these the most likely include quark

QUARK

Wordle 1,666 4/6 β€” 2026-01-10 Sat
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{Day 27 of 30 from the Philippines}
My guesses were:
STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY β€” possibles include again chain mania manic ninja; but previous Wordles have included again chain mania ninja; so the remaining possibles include manic
MANIC

Another lucky guess
Wordle 1,665 4/6 β€” 2026-01-09 Fri
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{Day 26 of 30 from the Philippines}
My guesses were:
STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY
EIGHT

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

Wordle 1,664 2/6 β€” 2026-01-08 Thu
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{Day 25 of 30 from the Philippines}
My guesses were:
STEAL
BLAST

Wordle 1,663 4/6 β€” 2026-01-07 Wed
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{Day 24 of 30 from the Philippines}
My guesses were:
STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY
PECAN

Wordle 1,662 5/6 β€” 2026-01-06 Tue
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{Day 23 of 30 from the Philippines}
My guesses were:
STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY
MORPH
OOMPH

Wordle 1,661 4/6 β€” 2026-01-05 Mon
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:black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square:
:black_large_square::black_large_square::yellow_square::black_large_square::green_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
{Day 22 of 30 from the Philippines}
My guesses were:
STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY
FILLY

Wordle 1,660 4/6 β€” 2026-01-04 Sun
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:black_large_square::green_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square:
:green_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
{Day 21 of 30 from the Philippines}
My guesses were:
STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY
POSSE

Rockin’ a par here. :slight_smile:
Wordle 1,659 4/6 β€” 2026-01-03 Sat
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:green_square::black_large_square::yellow_square::green_square::yellow_square:
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{Day 20 of 30 from the Philippines}
My guesses were:
STEAL
BOUND
SPRAT
SITAR

Wordle 1,658 4/6 β€” 2026-01-02 Fri
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:green_square::green_square::black_large_square::black_large_square::black_large_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
{Day 19 of 30 from the Philippines}
My guesses were:
STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY
PROOF

I won the coin toss.
Wordle 1,657 3/6 β€” 2026-01-01 Thu
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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
{Day 18 of 30 from the Philippines}
My guesses were:
STEAL
BOUND β€” possibles include amble cable fable gable label; but previous Wordles have included amble cable label; so the remaining possibles include fable gable
FABLE

Wordle 1,656 4/6 β€” 2025-12-31 Wed
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:black_large_square::yellow_square::yellow_square::black_large_square::black_large_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:
{Day 17 of 30 from the Philippines}
My guesses were:
STEAL
BOUND
PRIVY
SIREN

And on and on, going back to

Wordle 1,246 4/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:STERN
CLOUD
G IMPY
VISOR

Wordle 1683 4/6

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:green_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::green_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
DUSKY

Wordle 1,684 3/6 WEDNESDAY

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:white_large_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square::yellow_square:
:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square:

AUDIO
PRUNE
CRUEL