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

[pjd]

Wordle 1,741 3/6*

\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[yellow,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}

[SuntanLotion]

Wordle 1,741 3/6

[SuntanLotion]

STAIN
LEGIT
BEFIT

[Shoeless]

Wordle 1,741 5/6

STEAL
ROUND
TWICE
EIGHT
BEFIT

[BobLibDem]

Wordle 1,741 2/6

HEART
BEFIT

[Rebo]

Wordle 1,741 3/6*

STEAL
ENTRY
BEFIT

[SunUp]

Wordle 1,741 5/6* 3/26/2026

WISER → My first impulse was to swap the I & E and try something with those, but I decided to try to place the E.
ELITE → Which, in the event was fruitless. Then I got hung up on finishing the WoFcons with an N, so I tried
UNTIE → a word I had already eliminated. And since there aren’t many words with E before I, I knew it was time to try my first impulse way back after my carryover word, hence
TEPID → So the T has to go at the end, and after looking at it for a few minutes I went to bed. Got up the next morning, looked at it for one minute and saw
BEFIT

My followup guess was 5/322, and even my lousy and invalid third guess cut the possibles from 18 to six. The solution was a virtual tap-in. Scoredle’s followup cuts its possibles down to five, and leaves a 50-50 putt for birdie, which it sinks.

[puzzlegal]

Wordle 1,741 4/6

CRANE
HILTS
FETID
BEFIT

[Chefguy]

Wordle 1,741 4/6

CRANE
HOIST
DEBIT
BEFIT

[kaylasdad99]

Wordle 1,741 5/6

YODEL
ANISE
EQUIP
REFIT
BEFIT

[Wheelz]

Wordle 1,741 3/6

CRUEL
SAINT
BEFIT

I usually stick to Hard Mode, but I completely forgot to use the E on my second word. It worked out well.

DEBIT and EIGHT were also possible. My three-sided coin came up lucky.

[MacDoc]

Wordle 1,742 3/6

no Ai

[RTFirefly]

Wordle 1740 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
DRESS
WISER

Got lucky: while MISER had been used, “I’m an early” RISER was still out there, as was RESEW which I didn’t even see.

Wordle 1741 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
TEMPT
BEFIT

DEBIT, DEBUT, and BEGET had already been used. Otherwise, I’m sure I’d have picked one of them ahead of BEFIT, which is one of those words one sometimes sees in print, but I’m not sure I’ve ever heard it spoken.

[psychobunny]

Wordle 1,742 3/6

RATIO
VISOR
IVORY

Lucky second guess

[MrDibble]

Wordle 1,742 4/6 Friday

AUDIO
POINT
CHOIR
IVORY

[pjd]

Wordle 1,742 5/6*

\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\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 R}\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 D}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\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 R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y}

[Bullitt]

Wordle 1,742 3/6 — 2026-03-27 Fri

STARE
DOILY
IVORY

[RTFirefly]

Wordle 1742 3/6

SLANT
CHORE
IVORY

There are a huge store of 5-letter xxORx words - they aren’t in short supply. But the eight excluded letters knocked almost all of them out. It took me awhile to think of IVORY. Turned out it was on the used words list (#59), but I still couldn’t think of any other choice, and besides, we were about due for another recycled solution. So I went with it.

Turned out there was one other possibility, also on the used words list, and if it had been the solution, I’d have had to settle for a fjour. Probably would have taken me quite a while to think of it, though.

[puzzlegal]

Wordle 1,742 4/6

CRANE
HOIST
VIGOR
IVORY

No extra greens!

[Shoeless]

Wordle 1,742 3/6

RADIO
VIGOR
IVORY