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

Wordle 1,770 4/6

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Wordle 1,769 5/6

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No extra greens!

CRANE
SLOTH
BUMPY
FETID
TWEET

The bot doesn’t love my play, but says that mostly i was unlucky.

And it’s tomorrow, so what the heck:

Wordle 1,770 4/6

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No (extra) yellow, today.

CRANE
HOIST
WRUNG
DRUNK

After the first two words, there were only two possiblities. But i wasn’t certain that “brung” wasn’t a wordle word, so i guessed WRUNG over DRUNK. Oh well.

Wordle 1,770 5/6

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RATIO
NURSE
CHURN
BRUNG
DRUNK

Wordle 1,770 3/6

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Adieu
Pound
Drunk

Wordle 1,770 3/6 FRIDAY

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AUDIO
DRUPE
DRUNK

Wordle 1,770 3/6*

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Wordle 1,770 3/6 — 2026-04-24 Fri

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DOILYinterestingly, there’s only one likely solution, and that is…
DRUNK

Wordle 1770 3/6

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SLANT
GRODY
DRUNK

Could’ve also been DRINK (Wordle #206).

Wordle 1,770 3/6

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RAISE
MOUND
DRUNK

Wordle 1,770 5/6* 4/24/2026

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TWEET → A not-unexpected whiff, what with only three unique letters in the carryover. O, A and three of the four remaining WoFcons could be SONAR or
SOLAR → and I thought for a second I was going to double-whiff. OK, there’s one more WoFcon, I still don’t have a vowel yet, so I’ll try the we-letters and N, RUIN- catches my eye and though RUINY isn’t a word, there is one I can see
BRUIN → I just bought an electric car, so what I see here mostly is FRUNK, because that N can go nowhere else, but I don’t think that’s a valid solution word and I end up going with
PRUNY → and only now, for some reason, I see it
DRUNK

Kind of a bad puzzle on my part. My followup was nowhere on Scoredle’s list, third guess was a mediocre 60/140, and avoiding the final letter lost me a chance for par, with only one word (the guess) eliminated! Scoredle does much better - it plays the elimination game with only one yellow on the followup, two non-vowel greens on the third but the solution was the only valid word thereafter, a virtual tap-in.

Wordle 1,770 4/6*

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STEAL
DROWN
DRANK ← Aw, crap! The A was already wrong. I just didnt think they’d use
DRUNK

And DRINK had been used, even though that doesnt mean anything anymore. It does make the game harder these days!

Wordle 1,770 3/6

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YODEL
STAID
DRUNK

Wordle 1,771 3/6

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Wordle 1,770 3/6

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CRANE
GRUNT
DRUNK

How very symmetrical of me.

Wordle 1,770 3/6

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HEART
SPURN
DRUNK

Wordle 1,771 6/6

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RATIO
SHONE
FELON
COVEN
WOKEN
WOMEN

I blame Trump. He has removed that word from all government documents and apparently also from my brain.

Wordle 1,771 3/6

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Adieu
Strew
Women

Wordle 1,771 4/6*

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This is our 8,000th post in this thread…

Wordle 1,771 3/6 — 2026-04-25 Sat

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STARE
DOILYpossible Wordles include woken women woven; of these the previous Wordles were woken woven; remaining possible Wordles include women
WOMENBingo!