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

[SunUp]

Wordle 1,760 5/6* 4/14/2026

ELFIN → I can work with that, but I can’t use SLATE since the L is not second, so I’ll have to anagram it to
STEAL → Maybe I should have tried STALE. Oh, well, would like to try last WoFcon R and next vowel O, and that could be
LOPER → Y is still out there, and I can both try it and locate the L with
JELLY → Terminal E, should have tried it sooner. Nonterminal Y… I see one word, but with only two guesses left do I dare a repeat consonant? It seems I must
CYCLE

Another puzzle that went nowhere for a long time and then just fell into place. The followup I did was pretty lousy - not in the top 120, and so bad that Scoredle’s recommendation for the third guess was the same as its followup recommendation. At least my fourth guess was 3/26 and left me with a valid tap-in. If I had followed my anagram with the followup, it might have gone even worse for me - the remaining valid words are practically miles apart lexically. Scoredle also bogeys the puzzle, making no progress save for eliminations with its par attempt but leaving only a tap-in of its own.

[Chefguy]

Wordle 1,760 3/6

CRANE
HOIST - which only leaves. . .
CYCLE

[puzzlegal]

I often try things that have the letters i want that look like words. They are usually accepted.

[psychobunny]

Wordle 1,761 4/6

RATIO
LUNES
UNFED
BEGUN

Stupid error on three.

[puzzlegal]

Wordle 1,761 3/6

CRANE
SHOUT
BEGUN

[MrDibble]

Wordle 1,761 3/6 WEDNESDAY

AUDIO
PRUNE
BEGUN

[pjd]

Wordle 1,761 3/6*

\bbox[yellow,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}

[JohnT]

Wordle 1,761 5/6

Dumb error on row 4, but it helped me get to 5, so…

Adieu
Story
Plume
Fugue
Begun

[Shoeless]

Wordle 1,761 4/6

DANCE
SPOIL
GREEN
BEGUN

[Bullitt]

Wordle 1,761 4/6 — 2026-04-15 Wed

STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
BEGUN

[Bullitt]

From yesterday:

@JohnT

Adieu
Omens
Reply
Chyle
Cycle

@JohnT

I had no idea my fourth word was even a word, lol.

Never even heard of that word. Looking it up,

Chyle: Chyle is a milky-white bodily fluid consisting of lymph and emulsified fats (chylomicrons) formed in the small intestine during digestion. It transports dietary fats and fat-soluble vitamins from the intestines to the blood system via the lymphatic system. It is distinct from chyme, which is the semi-fluid food mass leaving the stomach.

Sounds nasty. I’m not a doctor, so no wonder I’d never heard of chyle. Or chyme.

♫ ♪ ♬ ♩ Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
♫ ♪ ♬ ♩ Parsley, sage, rosemary and chyme…

[Rebo]

Wordle 1,761 3/6*

STEAL
URINE ← I thought I was kind of clever here. Two vowels and two WoFcons, gave me:
BEGUN

[BobLibDem]

Wordle 1,761 5/6

HEART
PEONY
DENSE
FELON
BEGUN

[kaylasdad99]

Wordle 1,761 4/6

YODEL
ANISE
HERTZ (Stupid!)
BEGUN

[JohnT]

@Rebo

WoFcons

What’s a WoFcon?

[MacDoc]

Wordle 1,762 3/6

no Ai

[SunUp]

Wordle 1,761 5/6* 4/15/2026

CYCLE → Expected very little from this carryover, and thus was not disappointed. Three WoFcons and an A gives us
NEARS → a bogus word, and SNEER might have done better to place the E (though not in the event), but now I have just T left of the WoFcons and A eliminated, so I’ll try T & O and another random consonant for
BENTO → Placed said random consonant, nice. So I am feeling existential, so I move the N over and try
BEING → which points us straight to
BEGUN

There were three words, all valid, left after my third guess, and I had a 1-in-3 shot at the par, but it was not to be. That third guess, though a mediocre 16/53 per Scoredle, ended up darn near ideal in the event - and more productive than my followup, which was not in the top 120 amid a flood of bogus words with a terminal S. Scoredle uses its elimination powers of its followup and third guess to make par on a 50-50 putt with a different vowel in question.

@JohnT - an abbreviation of “Wheel of Fortune consonant”, the RSTLN sequence that the show gives you on the final puzzle (plus an E) that are high on the frequency-sorted list of letters in English.

[Chefguy]

Wordle 1,761 5/6

CRANE
HOIST
PENNY - the bot said there was one word left, but. . .
NEWEL - . . .wasn’t it, but apparently I have a ‘great vocabulary’
BEGUN - well, that took forever to see

[RTFirefly]

Wordle 1761 4/6

SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
BEGUN

Good thing ENNUI, the only other possibility after 3, had already been used, because I totally didn’t see that until I Scoredle’d afterwards. (Wordle #716, got a 4, damned if I know how.)

[psychobunny]

Wordle 1,762 3/6

RATIO
TULIP
CUBIT

Went against every sensible rule.