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

Wordle 1,764 3/6

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YODEL
WOODY
TOADY

Wordle 1,764 3/6

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Lots of 3s today.

CRANE
TOILS
TOADY

I decided to try this today. So far, so good :laughing:

Unless you’re a dumbass like me. Blew it on the third word.

Wordle 1,764 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
LOATH - head smack
TOADY

Wordle 1,764 3/6* 4/18/2026

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BELLE → Whiff. Two wasted letters, alas. Time for a good first word second, except without an E
ROAST → That was a good one. BOAT? is out, and I can’t see much else with ?OAT?, but if I go TOA?? it is reminiscent of
TOADY
GOATY and COATI
were also out there, so my imagination failed me while thinking of possibles for that third guess. Good luck in this case! Scoredle’s followup is an anagram of mine, but it leads to trying an anagram of the answer with its third guess, then a tap-in par putt for the solution.

Wordle 1,765 4/6

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Wordle 1,765 6/6

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RATIO
STALE
STAMP
STACK
HANDY
STAND

I panicked after four and went with a sleuth word because I was afraid of missing a possibility.

Wordle 1,765 3/6

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CRANE
TOILS
STAND

TOILS is still looking good.

Wordle 1,765 5/6

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AUDIO
DRAPE
SHADY
SKALD
STAND

I won the coin toss

Wordle 1,765 2/6 — 2026-04-19 Sun

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STAREstalk or stand?
STAND

Wordle 1,765 4/6*

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\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 T}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
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Wordle 1,765 3/6

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Adieu
Stork
Stand

Wordle 1765 2/6

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SLANT
STAND :musical_notes: in the place where you live :musical_notes:

A bit of déjà vu with this one: I had the same combo of greens and yellows with my starting word in Wordle 1707, just a couple months ago. At that point, reuse of solutions was just starting: there was the kickoff with CIGAR, originally Wordle 0, at Wordle 1689, then no recycled solutions for two weeks, then SQUAD, #296, reappearing as Wordle 1704. So reuse is on for real now, right? So at 1707, having a choice between STAND (Wordle 57) and STANK (not yet used), I went with STAND, figuring there would now be lots of reused solutions, and had to settle for the 3.

This time, it was now STAND (Wordle 57) and STANK (Wordle 1707), the latter having originally been used after reuse of old solutions started, so it wouldn’t have been on any list of solutions to be re-used unless they continually augmented it. Also by this point, the preference for re-using low numbers (even SQUAD, #296, is an outlier so far), so STAND was an easy choice.

How about stain, stalk, staid, stack, stall, stash, stamp, or staff?

Was your second word SLATE rather than STALE? There’s no L in the solution.

Wordle 1,765 3/6

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RAISE
COUNT
STAND

Wordle 1,765 3/6

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HEART
STAIN should have tried yesterday’s second guess:
STAND

Many of those had already been used. But of course, duplicates are allowed now…

Still, I got lucky.

Previously used:

STACK STAFF STAGE STAID STAIN STAIR STAKE STALE STALL STAMP STANK STARE STARK START STASH STATE

Wordle 1,765 3/6*

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Tonic
Spent
Stand

Wordle 1,765 3/6*

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STEAL
STAIN
STAND