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

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Wordle 1,305 3/6* 1/14/2025

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CLOAK → OK, I think I can work with that. Try an E and two WoFcons to go what I have. TANCE? Not a word. SCATE? Ditto. CRATE duplicates the C placement. But “TANCE” has an anagram…
ENACT → If the C is there, and we have not E, the last letter must be Y or H. If I swap N & A, the first thing I see is
FANCY
RANCH was also a possibility, and would have made more sense as a WoFcon hunt, so I’m glad I went with the first thing I saw. Scoredle finishes in with a par, and eliminates everything but the solution for the final guess - very methodical!

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Wordle 1,305 5/6

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OPINE
SNARL
HANDY
TANGY
FANCY

Gah.

743

Wordle 1,306 4/6

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RATIO
LANES
CHANG
KNACK

After a stupid move on two the answer was all I could come up with but didn’t want to waste a guess with two Ks. I tried a random word to hunt for letters which it somehow took then decided I had no other choice then the answer. Just a weird one overall.

744

Wordle 1306 2/6

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SLANT
KNACK M-m-m-my Sharona!

I’ve been waiting for this one! The only other unused possibilities for this green-and-yellow combo on my starting word were PRAWN and perhaps UNARM. So when it came up today, I thought, it’s finally gonna be KNACK! And it was.

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Wordle 1,306 4/6

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ATONE
BLAND
PRAWN
KNACK

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Wordle 1,306 2/6*

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Dance
Knack

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Wordle 1,306 4/6 — 2025-01-15
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LEAST
BOUND
CRISP
KNACK

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Wordle 1,306 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\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 A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 1,306 4/6

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HEART
PLAID
KOALA know there’s no L, just vowel fishing
KNACK

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Wordle 1,306 5/6

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YEAST (xxAxx. Time for MIAOU.)
MIAOU (Not much use. A couple of WoFcons?)
DRAWN (That’s progress. One more WoFcon, then.)
CLANG (Nope. But that C tells me all I need to know to keep my streak alive.)
KNACK (I really seem to have a knack for this, don’t I?)

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Wordle 1,306 3/6

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SLATE
CRANK
KNACK

I used Scordle’s regular opener today, and we played the exact same three words.

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Wordle 1,306 4/6*

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LEAST
BOARD
QUACK
KNACK

753
Wordle 1,306 3/6* 1/15/2025

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FANCY → Nothing like starting with a placed C! ?ANCE and ANCH are out, or I might have tried for an E here, but the A pretty much has to go in the middle so I ended up going with a K and a WoFcon
SNACK → Two Ks? Darn.
KNACK
ENACT was also out there after the first guess. Scoredle made the exact (heh) same plays as I did, so not much to comment on there.

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I see it today! Thanks for whatever is different.

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Wordle 1,306 3/6

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CRANE
SNACK - missed it by this much
KNACK

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But do you see the fnords? :smile:

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Wordle 1,306 4/6*

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PLATE
SHACK
CRACK
KNACK
As various cartoon characters say, ACK!!

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Wordle 1,307 3/6

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RATIO
STILE
FLINT

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Wordle 1,307 4/6

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CLEAN
SLING
BLIND
FLINT

760

Wordle 1307 2/6

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SLANT
FLINT

Could’ve been BLUNT, FLINT, or GLINT. Going with one of the latter two makes a 3 the worst case, and I liked FLINT better.

Lucky to start with 3 greens, and lucky again to guess right on 2.