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

Wordle 1,738 4/6

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YODEL
ANISE
SHEIK
SERIF

Wordle 1,738 3/6

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CRANE
HILTS
SERIF

Wordle 1,738 4/6*

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STEAL
SNORE
SCREW
SERIF

Wordle 1,738 4/6

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HEART
LEVER
REBID
SERIF

Wordle 1,738 3/6* 3/23/2026

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BASIL → Not a bad start. I want to try E in the followup, and two more WoFcons, I resort to trying to find a bogus word when a vaoid one doesn’t come to mind
SERIN → Oh, so close
SERIF

For a 94/127 guess of a bogus word, that followup sure was productive. The final putt was technically 1-in-3 but essentially a tap-in. Scordle has 12 to chose from after its followup, four of which are valid; its guess leaves six possibles with only one valid, which it chooses.

Wordle 1738 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
SEWER
SERIF

The list of past solutions had been sans SERIF for too long. :wink:

Wordle 1,738 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SKIER
SERIF

Wordle 1,738 3/6

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TORCH
SIREN
SERIF

Another tap-in birdie!

Wordle 1,739 4/6

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Wordle 1,739 4/6

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Wordle 1,739 6/6

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RATIO
SCOUR
BROkE
BROWN
BROOM
BROOD

Haven’t come this close to losing in awhile.

Wordle 1,739 3/6 TUESDAY

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AUDIO
DRONE
BROOD

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Wordle 1,739 4/6*

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\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D}

Wordle 1,739 4/6 — 2026-03-24 Tue

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
BROOD

It’s scary after you’ve entered your 5th guess and you only have 1 more guess remaining.

I hate that feeling!

Wordle 1739 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
BROOD

It’s been 50 days since CIGAR inaugurated the era of re-using past solutions. In those 50 days, 46 of the solutions have been new, and only 4 have been previous solutions. I’m kinda perplexed as to why they bothered.

Wordle 1,739 5/6

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RADIO
PROUD
CROWD
FROND
BROOD

I had three words left after my second guess. I couldn’t decide whether to play a sleuth word (crown) that would guarantee a four, or just guess. I chose poorly.

Wordle 1,739 3/6

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HEART
BONER
BROOD

Wordle 1,739 6/6* 3/24/2026

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SERIF → Slow start. With the R I would normally try ROAST here, but there’s no S, so I mixed in N and L alternately and shuffled letters around until I found a bogus word I could use
ROTAN → Bogus, but good eliminations, and an O pickup. To try L, I’ll go with
GLORY → Still haven’t placed that R. I can’t see any words left that end in R, so I’ll try the R in second
CROUP → That was it… but now it’s either a double-O, or consonants galore, and I can check double-O and two new consonants with
BROOM → So last guess, and I have - two possibles. 50-50 elimination chance. I feel like we’ve had BROOK before, so I’ll cross my fingers and try
BROOD

Phew is right. I made lousy guesses, per Scoredle - followup wasn’t in the top 120 out of 574, third guess was 48/60, fourth was 8th out of 9 valids (24 total), so I guess I was fairly lucky I ended up sinking that 50-50 at the death. It’s a challenge for Scoredle, too; bogey on the puzzle, six remaining valid possibles after the third guess, but a tap-in for that bogey.

Wordle 1,740 4/6

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