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

Wordle 1,686 4/6

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RADIO
PESTO
MUCHO
JUMBO

Well, let’s do it: YRNEH in hard mode.

Scoredle 4/6*

14,855
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YRNEH
ABOUT
BOUND
JUMBO

Wordle 1,686 6/6

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HEART
SPOIL
BOUND
UNBOX (realizing no N, trying to place other letters)
GUMBO
JUMBO

Wordle 1,686 4/6*

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STEAL
DROWN
COUCH
JUMBO

Wordle 1,686 2/6

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BUYER
JUMBO

Wordle 1,686 6/6* 1/30/2026

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FLAKY → Whiff to start. E, O and three WoFcons up to bat
TENOR → Oof, not much. Two vowels still out there, but I’m getting nervous about the consonants, so
CHOPS → No help there. Not a WoFcon in sight. Seems a bizarre day, so I’ll try a bizarre word with some bizarre spelling (and an I, which is the real purpose of this one)
ZOMBI → I’ve chased the O through the middle positions, and it turns out it’s at the end. Throw in a U and…did we do this one recently?
GUMBO → Augh, I think we did. Almost went with DUMBO here on my last guess, which would have been… bad.
JUMBO

Just eked it out. I was starting to panic there until my fourth guess, then I almost panicked on the final putt. Scoredle has the same idea as me for the second guess, except it uses a different set of WoFcons, and then tries a vowel on the third guess, which leaves it with an easy par putt with but a single valid possible.

Wordle 1,686 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SPOOL - well, that narrows it down for the ‘o’
JUMBO

Sheesh.

Wordle 1,687 4/6

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

Wordle 1,686 4/6

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CRANE
SLOTH
BODGY
JUMBO

Wordlebot gave me a skill score of 99 today! I don’t think that’s ever happened before.

Wordle 1,687 3/6

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RATIO
FLOAT
ALLOT

Wordle 1,687 3/6 SATURDAY

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AUDIO
ANOLE
ALLOT (Made me chuckle because it reminded me of the "the Alot: comic)

Wordle 1,687 3/6 — 2026-01-31 Sat

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STEAL
BOUNDpossibles include allot aloft; aloft has already been used, and they’re not yet allowing repeats — that starts Monday!
ALLOTbingo!

Wordle 1,687 5/6*

\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H}\bbox[yellow,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}

Wordle 1,687 3/6 SATURDAY

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SLATE
BLOAT
ALLOT
First time for -Gyy- on Slate. Good news! The repetition with Slate was
getting so boring that I was thinking of switching to a 2nd-best start word! :slight_smile:
Altar, Ultra, Float, Gloat and Aloft were already-used so only two words were possible.
I guessed wrong.

Wordle 1,687 3/6

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ATONE
ABOUT
ALLOT

Wordle 1,687 4/6

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RADIO
POACH
FLOAT
ALLOT

Wordle 1,687 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
BLOAT
ALLOT

Wordle 1,687 3/6

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BUYER
AMINO
ALLOT

Wordle 1,687 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
FLOAT
ALLOT