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

Wordle 1,746 4/6

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RADIO
STYLE
CHUMP
SWAMP

Wordle 1,746 4/6

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HEART
PLAIN
SCAMP
SWAMP

H

Wordle 1,747 4/6

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Wordle 1,746 4/6* 3/31/2026

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COMET → Nice (if lonely) pickup. Need to try A & I and a couple WoFcons
MAINS → Got a vowel, at least. Only one? If so, it’s in the middle… and I can check another WoFcon (doubled, actually) with
SMALL → Here I stopped making progress for a while, until I started looking for nonWoFcons to fill in… fortunately I didn’t see SWARM before I saw
SWAMP

My followup guess was a pretty respectable 34/495, but my third was 6/7 valids, 9/19 overall so I definitely could have done better. The par putt was a lucky 1-in-3 of valids. Scoredle has a 1-in-3/6 shot at a birdie, but misses, settling for a par of its own.

Wordle 1,746 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SPADE
SWAMP

Wordle 1,746 3/6*

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STEAL
SHARK
SWAMP

Wordle 1,746 4/6

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ADMIT
MARCH
FLAME
SWAMP

I knew that MARCH wasn’t the smartest follow-up, but here on the final day of MARCH, I had to try it! :grin:

I believe it neither hurt nor helped me much on my MARCH toward a par.

Wordle 1,747 5/6*

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“Sea of Greens”

Leant
Scour
Pigmy
Dizzy
Fizzy

Wordle 1,747 4/6

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RATIO
SHINE
FILMY
FIZZY

Lucky third guess.

Wordle 1,747 5/6

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AUDIO
PRIME
CIVIL doh!
WITCH
FIZZY

Wordle 1,747 4/6*

\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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}\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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y}
\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 Z}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Z}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y}

And my streak barely stays alive.

Wordle 1,747 6/6 — 2026-04-01 Wed
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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
BIVVYpossibles now include figgy fizzy jiffy jiggy jimmy miffy mizzy wiggy; and, previous Wordles have included jiffy; remaining, leaves figgy fizzy jiggy jimmy miffy mizzy wiggy; letters to eliminate are F G Z J M W; can try sleuth word(s) jugum
JUGUMsleuth word; fortunately only one possible word remains
FIZZYWHEW!

Since repeat words were allowed beginning on 02 Feb 2026… was CIGAR (Wordle 1,689) the only repeat or have there been any others?

There have been a few:

CIGAR (Wordle 1689, originally Wordle 0)
SQUAD (Wordle 1704, originally Wordle 296)
AWAKE (Wordle 1708, originally Wordle 4)
LINEN (Wordle 1718, originally Wordle 51)
GRADE (Wordle 1730, originally Wordle 15)
IVORY (Wordle 1742, originally Wordle 59)
COMET (Wordle 1745, originally Wordle 122)

That’s all so far.

Wordle 1747 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
FIZZY

Happy to get a 4, given how I started. I went through more than half the alphabet before getting a hit!

Been getting a fair number of ‘sea of greens’ lately for no apparent reason. This one was more of a sea of grays, and then a coastline of greens.

Wordle 1,747 6/6

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YODEL
SATYR
JUICY
NINNY
WIMPY
FIZZY

Wordle 1,747 5/6

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PIOUS
GREAT
DINKY
FILMY
FIZZY

Wordle 1,747 4/6

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HEART
SPOIL
WINKY
FIZZY

Wordle 1,747 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
LUMPY
FIGGY
FIZZY

I usually use a wordle solving tool, but i entered my third word wrong and failed to notice. I probably would have picked a different fourth word if i had done it right, but i got lucky.

Wordle 1,747 4/6*

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STEAL
CRONY
BUMPY
FIZZY

Wordle 1,747 5/6* 4/1/2026

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SWAMP → Whiff. Three WoFcons plus E & O for my followup means
TENOR → uh, double-whiff. L is still out there, but I really feel like I need to try all the remaining vowels, so
JUICY → So this is looking like ?IxxY, and I can fill the x-spots with Ls, so
FILLY → Two guesses left, what’s the most likely double letter in here?
FIZZY
FIGGY
was another option, and in the Christmas season I might have tried it. Looks like there were about eight valid possibles after three, so I could have easily gone down to defeat today - the lucky fourth guess assured survival. Scoredle goes the distance, ending up with the same 50-50 as I had and converting it for a six.