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

Wordle 1,742 4/6

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HEART
SPURN
CHOIR know that R is misplaced, fishing for vowels
IVORY

Wordle 1,742 3/6*

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STEAL
DROWN
IVORY

Wordle 1,742 4/6* 3/27/2026

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BEFIT → Slow start. I first thought of SLAIN as a followup, but that would repeat the I placement, so moved to R over N with
LIARS → Is the I the only vowel, all by itself in the middle? I thought about ??IRN words, but couldn’t think of any, so perhaps
CHIRP → No help there. ???RI goes nowhere, so initial I? Lotta vowels still out there; when I try to mix in a terminal Y or an O I end up with a word that uses both
IVORY
A 99.44% pure
solution. Scoredle liked my third guess, 1/19, so that felt good to see, and even my followup was 79/1223. Scoredle also pars, doing it mostly by eliminations - just one yellow on each guess until the solution.

Wordle 1,742 3/6

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YODEL
STORY
IVORY

Wordle 1,742 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
RIGOR
IVORY

Wordle 1,743 3/6

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Wordle 1,742 3/6

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ENTRY
CHIAO
IVORY

Quite a stroke of luck getting the -RY right off the bat. But still a bit trappish, so I went trolling for vowels; those were not the two I expected. Only one word left!

(I was surprised Wordle accepted CHIAO, thinking it was a misspelling of CIAO. It’s actually a Chinese unit of currency.)

Wordle 1,743 5/6

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Wordle 1,743 5/6

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RATIO
COAST
BLOAT
ADOPT
AFOOT

Wordle 1,743 4/6

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CRANE
SPOIL
ABOUT
AFOOT

I didn’t think “afoot” would be a valid wordle word. Huh wordlebot says adobo is on its list, too.

Wordle 1,743 4/6 — 2026-03-28 Sat

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
AFOOTI won the coin toss. It could also have been magot or taboo

Wordle 1,743 4/6*

\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[silver,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\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 T}

Wordle 1743 3/6

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SLANT
ARGOT
the game’s…
AFOOT

ABBOT had been used already.

Wordle 1,743 5/6

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LEAST
CHOIR
ADOPT
ABOUT
AFOOT

Wordle 1,743 5/6

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HEART
PAINT
GLOAT
ABOUT
AFOOT

Wordle 1,743 4/6*

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STEAL
TAINT
AFOOT

Wordle 1,743 3/6

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YODEL
ARSON
AFOOT

Wordle 1,743 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
FLOAT
AFOOT

Wordle 1,743 4/6* 3/28/2026

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IVORY → That’s an interesting start. I can follow up with three WoFcons and a E with
STOLE → I thought about how to shoehorn an A after the O, but then decided on
PHOTO → and here I hit a brick wall. It didn’t get much better after a night’s sleep. Then I browsed another thread here on the Dope, came back to the puzzle and hit hit me
AFOOT

My followup and third guesses were both third on Scoredle’s lists - 3/577, then 3/23. The par putt was a tap-in, though it took me a long time to figure it out. On its own, Scoredle kinda takes a wrong turn - it adds no letters to what is known from its followup and third guesses, then picks up a single green letter with each of its next two guesses, leaving it with a tap-in double bogey.

Wordle 1,743 4/6

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DOUGH
SNORT
FLOAT
AFOOT

Good progress in each word, and a tap-in par. Nice!