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

Wordle 1,756 4/6

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PLEASE STOP RESPONDING TO MY WORDLE POSTS! IT’S REALLY ANNOYING! Thank you.

hmmmm- no intention to …must be how my find is working … will avoid :woozy_face:

It’s the big arrow at the bottom of the page, not the smaller one below someone’s post.

Wordle 1,755 2/6*

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STEAL
LADEN

Wordle 1,755 3/6

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POWER
LATEN
LADEN

Wordle 1,756 4/6

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Ugh, i had a brain fart


CRANE
LOGIA
CAROL
I’d eliminated this.

CAROM

I can’t believe that’s a wordle word. I only guessed it because i didn’t think of CAROB, which seems much more wordle-y.

Wordle 1,756 4/6 FRIDAY

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AUDIO
SOAPY
CAROB
CAROM

Was a toss-up between CAROM and CAROL on that last one and I guessed correctly it’d be the more obscure one. Although I grew up playing the similarly-samed table game so not obscure to me.

Wordle 1,756 3/6

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RATIO
LABOR
CAROM

Wordle 1,756 5/6 — 2026-04-10 Fri

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
CARGO
CAROM

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\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}
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\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}

Wordle 1,756 4/6

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CANOE
CAROL
CAROB
CAROM

I couldn’t decide if I wanted to go for two (with the chance of not getting it until four) or play bloom which would guarantee a three. I chose poorly.

Wordle 1,756 4/6

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PUNCH
SCARE
CAROL
CAROM

Scordle’s choice for second word was CARES, an anagram of mine. Yet somehow SCARE didn’t crack the top 100. Weird.

Wordle 1,756 3/6

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HEART
RAZOR
CAROM

Wordle 1,757 3/6

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Wordle 1,756 6/6*

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STEAL
DRAWN
FAIRY
RAZOR
CAROB
CAROM

Damn! I thought i was going to blow my streak of 299.

Wordle 1756 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
CAROM

Could’ve also been CAROB or the already-used CARGO (Wordle #305). Since they’ve re-used solutions as high up as SQUAD (#296), who knows whether CARGO would be in what I’m calling the ‘zone of reusability.’

Wordle 1,756 5/6

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YODEL
ARSON
GATOR
CAROB
CAROM

Wordle 1,756 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
CORAL - head smack
CAROM

Wordle 1,756 3/6* 4/10/2026

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LADEN → Well, that’s something. If I add a O and the three remaining WoFcons, I can try a bogus yet very tempting regular plural
TAROS → And that’s quite something, with all the WoFcons gone I need to try other consonants, I’ll try bouncing a couple off Wordle and see what I get
CAROM
CAROB
was another possible so it was a 50-50 for birdie. My followup was 14/907, so I guess it qualifies as fairly skillful. Scoredle’s top-rank followup ends up with one repeated letter but no new finds; after that, it stumbles its way to a bogey.

@Spoons I’ve seen the same thing in Scoredle’s possibles list. I think it happens because there are some many possibles (almost all bogus) with that terminal-S that it automatically tries one of them - it seems to be thinking it’s looking at the mother of all traps, and tries to give itself as much time as possible to suss it out.