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

Wordle 1301 3/6

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SLANT
CRIME
CRAWL

Wordle 1,301 4/6

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HEART
BRAID
CRANK
CRAWL

Wordle 1,301 4/6 — 2025-01-10
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LEAST
BOUND
CRISP
CRAWL

Wordle 1,301 4/6

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CRANE - Heart flutter after three letters
CRASH
CRAMP
CRAWL - This was what came to mind after the opener, but I didn’t go with it.

Wordle 1,301 4/6* 1/10/2025

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WAFER → That’s a disturbingly good start. I can see a followup with two WoFcons, so I’ll take it
TRAWL → And that’s a solid followup! Small trap now, of course, but it looks like just B|C|D to choose from, anywhare from birdie to bogey. Why not alphabetical order?
BRAWL → Nope.
CRAWL

Once again, a holdover letter from yesterday’s solution helps immensely. My second guess was pretty lucky; Scoredle shows 11 nonbogus possibles for it. Scoredle itself finishes in three; it hits the trap with T instead of D as its third possible, and makes the 1-in-3 putt for birdie.

Wordle 1,301 4/6

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YEAST (Well, at least I can look for all the vowels.)
MIAOU (Now that that’s out of the way, I can wrack my brains looking for four consonants.)
WRACK (That worked out pretty well.)
CRAWL (Only word left.)

Wordle 1,301 4/6*

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LEAST
PLAIN
DRAWL
CRAWL

Wordle 1,301 4/6

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OUNCE
BASIC
CHART
CRAWL

CRAZY and CRAMP were still left, so this could have gone pretty badly.

Wordle 1,302 3/6

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RATIO
SHINE
DINGY

Wordle 1,302 3/6

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ATONE
GRIND
DINGY

Wordle 1,302 6/6* 1/11/2025

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CRAWL → Whiff. Feels pretty bad after the last two days of lucky carryovers. But, I can check the last three WoFcons and the next two vowels with one word, so I got that going for me
STONE → That was… less productive than I hoped. I’d like to try all three remaining vowels with one guess… and I saw a word that could do that, which made my day
UNIFY → At least the Y is placed. Move N & I over and try… a double letter? Eh, why not
NIPPY → That’s why not. At least I’ve found the N by process of elimination. Let’s see, two guesses left, and DINKY, DINGY, HINKY (slangy)… any more? Hope not. I feel like it’s DINGY, but DINKY is the safe play, so
DINKY → Ha, my feeling was correct. But I’m glad I played it safe.
DINGY

Scoredle finishes in five from my start, ironically with all greens (in contrast to me chasing letters all over the word). Despite the score, I felt like this was a pretty much puzzle all around.

Wordle 1,302 4/6 — 2025-01-11
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LEAST
BOUND
CRISP
DINGY

Wordle 1,302 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\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 A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \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 I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,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 I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,302 4/6

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PLANT
SNORE
MUNCH
DINGY

Wordle 1,302 4/6

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HEART
SPOIL
BINGE (aware there is no E, just fishing for letters)
DINGY

Wordle 1302 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
DINGY

Was hoping it wasn’t DINKY. :grin:

Wordle 1,302 5/6

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CRANE
POINT
MINUS
ZINGY
DINGY

Wordle 1,302 6/6

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YEAST (Probably xxxxY. Look for vowels.)
JUICY (Probably no O. Grab a WoFcon.)
IMPLY (No help. Another WoFcon?)
KINKY (Got one! Either NINNY or DINGY, I think.)
NINNY (Nope. And I’m still not feeling DINGY. Well, needs must.)
DINGY (Phew!)

Wordle 1,302 3/6*

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LEAST
BOUND
DINGY

Wordle 1,302 4/6

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AROSE
TULIP
WINCH
DINGY

Wordlebot praised all my choices, but luck was not with me today.