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

The Game Room
8081
Wordle 1,776 6/6* 4/30/2026

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RURAL → Slow start, but at least that’s the only R. Followup should use O and E and two of the three WoFcons left
STORE → Lucky O placement. I’ll assume for the present it’s the only vowel, and try the last WoFcon
FROWN → Nope. Double O?
BROOM → Nope. Could there be a Y?
PROXY → Nope. What’s left? I like that -CK ending still, but didn’t want to double up on the C with so many consonants remaining - but that doesn’t matter when I’m down to my last guess, so
CROCK
DROID was also out there and of course would have sunk me. Scoredle gets a systematic bogey, all greens after the followup. Well, there’s alway tomorrow.

8082

Wordle 1,777 3/6

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8083

Wordle 1,776 4/6

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CRANE
CRUSH
CRIMP
CROCK

I feel good about this, looking at above guesses.

8084

Wordle 1,776 5/6

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YODEL
NITRO
OSCAR
CROUP
CROCK

8085

Wordle 1,776 3/6*

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STEAL
MINOR
CROCK

8086

Wordle 1,776 6/6

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SOUTH
DRONE
BROIL
CROAK
CROOK
CROCK

BROIL was a poor choice; it did not eliminate nearly enough possibilities. Still, even with a little bad luck I had no chance of a fail by the end.

8087

Wordle 1,777 5/6 (Friday’s)

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WordleBot sez…

Skill 62/99
Luck 42/99

Adieu
Stony
Ruler
Welch (duh)
Plume

8088

Wordle 1,777 4/6

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RATIO
LUNES
ELUDE
PLUME

8089

Wordle 1,777 4/6 — 2026-05-01 Fri

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
PLUME

8090

Wordle 1,777 3/6*

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\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Q}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}

!

8091

Wordle 1,777 3/6

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ROUSE
PAINT
PLUME

8092

Wordle 1777 3/6

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SLANT
CLIME
PLUME

Could’ve also been Wordle #68, FLUME.

Looks like WordleBot had a bit of a problem with math this morning.

8093

Wordle 1,777 2/6

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SLATE
PLUME

Got pretty lucky. The 2nd guess immediately popped into my head when I saw the 2 green letters, and it happened to be correct. This is my 11th 2nd-guess-win out of 358 played games.

8094

Wordle 1,777 5/6

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HEART
BONER
FIELD
ELUDE
PLUME

8095

Wordle 1,778 3/6

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8096
Wordle 1,777 5/6* 5/1/2026

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CROCK → Whiff, not unexpected, and a wasted second C. What can I do to make this better? The quintessential first guess second
SLATE → Well that’s something. Now what does Scoredle do in a spot like this? I’d like to try I… and N… and maybe a second E… but two outta three ain’t bad
ELIDE → No help on both. N is still out there, but I’m not seeing much from ?LUNE, but it does evoke
FLUME → Which is almost
PLUME

Not a bad recovery after that start. My guesses were very close to Scoredle’s along that same sequence - either identical, off-by-one-letter or anagrams. Although Scoredle’s own sequence diverges significantly with its third guess, we end up with the same 50-50 for par, miss for bogey.

8097

Wordle 1,777 4/6*

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STEAL
FELON
BIBLE
PLUME

8098

Wordle 1,777 4/6

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YODEL
UTILE
PULSE
PLUME

8099

Wordle 1,777 3/6

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ABUSE
FLUTE
PLUME

Placing two vowels on the opener was a huge stroke of luck. I thought about a sleuth word (remembering yesterday’s slog to a six) but didn’t really need one; the long drive up the center of the fairway made for a fairly easy birdie.

8100

Wordle 1,777 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST - yeesh
PLEBE
PLUME