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

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Wordle 1,692 4/6* 2/5/2026

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CHIDE → Whiff. Good first guess second time.
ROAST → U and Y left among the vowels, L & N for WoFcons. But I’d really like to place the O, and if you throw in an N I can do it with
SWOON → Good guess! Looks like it’s
SWOOP

The second guess analysis is swamped by the number of terminal-S words, but I did have an anagram of Scoredle’s preferred word, which left ten valid possibles. My third guess made it a tap-in for par. Scoredle’s third guess figures out the last letter indirectly (GyGG-) but then misses a 50-50 putt to end in a bogey.

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Wow, lots of fives and sixes today.

Wordle 1,692 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SPOOF - Okay, it’s a coin toss. . .
SLOOP - Went for the noun instead of. . .
SWOOP

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Wordle 1,692 4/6

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TOUCH
SNORE
SPOIL
SWOOP

Nothing remarkable about this par, but I enjoyed playing this one quite a bit. Good progress on each word; made me work a little bit, but not in a frustrating way. Exactly what I want from my Wordle!

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NYT average today was 4.4, which is high.

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Wordle 1692 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
SPOOK
SWOOP

After 2, the possibilities were SMOKY, SPOOF*, SPOOK, and SWOOP. Any of the OO words at 3 would have guaranteed a 4.

*Previous solution, not that that matters anymore.

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BUYER
AMINO
STOOL
SHOOK
SCOFF
SWOOP

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Wordle 1,693 5/6 FRIDAY

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AUDIO
FRAME
CHEAP
TAKEN
GAVEL

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Wordle 1,693 5/6 — 2026-02-06 Fri

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH — possibles include babel bagel bleak gavel glean label legal lemma; letters to eliminate are B G K V N M; can try sleuth word(s) venom?
VENOM — actually was not the best of sleuth words to try, because, N
GAVEL

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Wordle 1,693 4/6

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RATIO
LANES
BAGEL
GAVEL

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Wordle 1,693 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[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[lime,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 M}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}

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Wordle 1,693 6/6

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RADIO
SAUTE
CAMEL
PANEL
LABEL
GAVEL

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Wordle 1,693 4/6

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CRANE
HALTS
BAGEL
GAVEL

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Wordle 1,693 3/6

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SLATE
GRIND
GAVEL

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Did not get it today. *sigh

My five word solution doesn’t work all the time. Still tweaking.

Wordle 1,693 X/6

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Wordle 1,693 4/6

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HEART
GLEAM
GALES
GAVEL

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Wordle 1,694 5/6

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Wordle 1,693 3/6*

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STEAL
ANGEL
GAVEL

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@MJH I feel your pain.

Wordle 1,693 X/6* 2/6/2026

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SWOOP → Whiff. I’d like to try three vowels here, so…
RAINE → is an acceptable word, though bogus I’m sure. So I noodled around with L & T and tried
LATED → (why not DELTA? Augh) which looks awfully trappish, but I’m pretty much committed, so
CAMEL → Nope.
HAZEL → Uh uh. One guess left, and I’m hungry, so
BAGEL
If only I had committee meeting yesterday. I should learn to think more carefully about traps when I see them developing, which would have given me this one in five at the most, because two of the trap words shared a letter, and would have meant safety even in case it was one of the other words. Scoredle finishes in four, and at worst would have gone the distance in a less favorable scenario.

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Wordle 1,693 6/6

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CRANE
HOIST
BLEAK
ALLEY
LAPEL
GAVEL

Lucky not to tank it completely.

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Wordle 1,693 5/6

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PLEAD
SCALE
VALET
NAVEL
GAVEL

Tough bogey, but some of you had it worse today, so I’m not complaining.