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

Wordle 1,744 4/6

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Wordle 1,744 3/6

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RATIO
LUNES
CHUMP

Wordle 1,744 3/6

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STAMP
CHIMP
CHUMP

Wordle 1,744 3/6*

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Wordle 1,744 3/6

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RADIO
STYLE
CHUMP
Two whiffs, then nailed it!

Wordle 1,744 4/6

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HEART
WHOOP
CHIMP
CHUMP

Wordle 1,744 4/6*

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STEAL
DROWN
JUICY
CHUMP

Wordle 1,744 3/6*

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Relay
Doubt
Chump

Wordle 1,744 3/6

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YODEL
SATIN
CHUMP

I almost went with GRUMP, because it had a WoFcon.

Same!

Felt pretty good.

Wordle 1744 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
CHICK
CHUMP

Interesting situation after 2: had CHICK, CHIMP, CHUCK, and CHUMP as possibilities. Whichever one I went with on 3, I was guaranteed a 4 if I missed: matching the I or U would give me one answer, matching the last two letters would give me another, and matching neither would give me the third. So CHICK had no additional hits on 3, so it wasn’t CHIMP or CHUCK, so it had to be CHUMP.

Wordle 1,744 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
CHUMP

Wordle 1,744 4/6

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CRANE
SHOUT
FRUMP
CHUMP

I thought i had chuck, chump, and chuff as possibilities, so i decided to go for a certain four, rather than gambling on 3-5. Maybe chuff isn’t a wordle word?

Wordle 1,744 5/6

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ADULT
ROUSE
CHUNK
CHUFF
CHUMP

Grrr.
CHUFF and CHUMP were the only possible words after three. I wish I could say it was a coin flip, but it wasn’t. Had I seen CHUMP, I would have parred.

According to the wordlebot (which is a NYT feature, so probably authoritative), “CHUFF” isn’t a valid answer.

Wordle 1,745 4/6

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Wordle 1,744 4/6* 3/29/2026

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AFOOT → Whiff. Two vowels, three WoFcons and a brief moment of mourning for the wasted second O…
RILES → Double whiff! N is still out there among the WoFcons. I’d like to try both U and Y, the latter terminal of course (since I’ve already excluded SYRUP) so add in a couple more consonants and try
PUNKY → Brewster comes through! Probably a single U in the middle surrounded by consonants, CH- looks like a good one to try and I can pair the P with M to get
CHUMP
HUNKY
would have been a better third guess, per Scoredle (2/103 vs. 23/103 for my guess) but either way it would have left a tap-in. It made for a interesting save of par after that bad start. Scoredle takes a bogey on it; it uses a double letter word for its third guess, so doesn’t eliminate enough letters for the par putt, leaving six valid possibles.

It’s definitely a valid guess, and IMO not quite obscure enough to discount as a possible answer.

I have mixed feelings about the NYT making known which words are on their list of solutions and which aren’t.

Wordle 1,745 3/6

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RATIO
THOSE
COMET