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

Wordle 1,721 3/6

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Oh wow! I had more than a dozen possibilities. I just choose that because it has a lot of good letters and a vowel and a consonant in good places.

CRANE
HOIST
GUNKY

Edited to add: wordlebot says i only had 4 words that could have been wordle answers. Huh, i would have thought more. This is a funny word-space for it, i think. And also, it would have chosen the elimination word, “PROOF” to guarantee a win in 5.

Wordle 1,721 X/6

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SLATE
ROUND
UNZIP
CHUNK - stupid stupid guess, UN can’t go there
JUNKY
FUNKY
Bust!!! Probably could have got it if I’d been paying attention.

Wordle 1,721 5/6

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HEART
SPOIL
DUMMY
FUNNY
play that GUNKY music

Wordle 1,722 4/6

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I join the bloodbath.

Wordle 1,721 X/6* 3/6/2026

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SHEEP → Whiff. It’s not really a good first word, but I decided to try a different combination and here’s what Wordle accepted
ALOIN → Not far from a double-whiff. So there’s U and Y left of the vowels, and three WoFcons, but I only engaged two with
RUNNY → and I could have tried RUNTY and gotten them all, so seeing that I wanted to try a T and went for
BUNTY → and as a white boy, I want to play some music really
FUNKY → and I’m really close, but I can see two possiblities here, and G looks a little slangy so
JUNKY

A 50-50 right at the end there, according to Scoredle. Scoredle itself wins in five, and doesn’t even touch two of the WoFcons to get a largely elimination-based win.

Wordle 1,721 5/6*

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STEAL
DROWN
PUNCH
JUNKY
GUNKY

WordleBot didn’t solve it! It said, “I doff my cap to you!”

Wordle 1,721 6/6

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YODEL
JUICY
RUNNY
AUNTY
FUNKY
GUNKY

That’s odd. with me, it solved it in four.

Hoping this works.

Can you see this, @kaylasdad99 ?

Wordle 1,721 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST - well, at least it eliminated a lot of words
FUNNY - a placement word, and eliminated the F, so. . .
GUNKY

Looks like lots of trouble for most folks today.

Wordle 1721 6/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
FUNKY
JUNKY
GUNKY

Seeing today’s carnage, I’m glad I at least kept it in bounds. After 3, I saw FUNKY, GUNKY, and JUNKY, but I discounted the latter two enough that I went with FUNKY even knowing it had previously been used. Then I lost the mental coin toss between the other two. Such is life.

Wordle 1,722 4/6

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RATIO
SHONE
LODGE
VOGUE

Wordle 1,722 4/6 SATURDAY

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AUDIO
POUCH
MOGUL
VOGUE

Wordle 1,722 4/6*

\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}

Was sure i was going to get a 2. :angry:

Wordle 1,722 4/6 — 2026-03-07 Sat

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STARE
DOILY
COUPE
VOGUE

A pair of bogeys;

Wordle 1,721 5/6

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TREAD
LOINS
FUNKY
GLYPH
GUNKY

H, G, J, or P (I thought B might be in the mix too, but not according to Scordle). I didn’t want to risk it, and did what turned out to be the right thing. Sorry to those of you who went down yesterday.

Wordle 1,722 5/6

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BRAKE
STONE
LODGE
VOUGE
VOGUE

This is what happens when I Wordle before coffee.
I had the par in the bag, then brain-farted. While I take full responsibility for my idiocy, I’m surprised the misspelling was accepted. Mirriam-Webster doesn’t recognize it.

Wordle 1,722 3/6

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CRANE
SLOTH
VOGUE

this is the second day in a row when i hit a birdie when just trying to split the field. I thought there were 13 plausible words that would fit after the first two guesses, of which 6 were almost certainly on wordle’s list. (The wordle bot says 7 words, the 6 i liked most plus one of the others i was looking at, bogie.) I liked Vogue because it would place the o, and test whether v, g, and u were in the word. This looked like the most useful word to place of the 13, in terms of differentiating the others. And… BINGO!

Wordle 1,722 3/6

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SAINT
ROUGE
VOGUE

After yesterday’s debacle, and an ominous whiff on my first guess, starting a new streak with a 3!

Wordle 1,723 3/6

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Wordle 1,722 3/6* 3/7/2026

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GUNKY → Not what I would have expected, but very useful. Jumping out at me are VOGUE/VAGUE/ROGUE and
ROUGE → So, if that was all the valid words, it must be
VOGUE
Words ending in H
was the category I missed seeing for the second guess, so I got rather lucky in general terms but it was a skillful play otherwise - my second guess was second on Scoredle’s list of 88 possibles. It could have gone south for the second day in a row, though, if I hadn’t cottoned to my earlier oversight and hit a very rough trap. Scoredle also hits a birdie; with three valids left after its second guess, it dives into a trap to try to save a win, and hits the one valid word in that trap. If the solution was one of the other words, a five was possible. Nice bounceback after yesterday!