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

The Game Room
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Wordle 1,779 5/6*

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\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt J}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y}
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8122

Wordle 1779 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
PUFFY

Went from drawing blanks at 1 and 2 to narrowing it to a single possibility after 3. Not bad!

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Same. With 9 out of 10 of the same first letters.

Wordle 1,779 4/6

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CRANE
TOILS
DUMPY
PUFFY

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Wordle 1,779 4/6

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ROUTE
DAISY
FUNKY
PUFFY

8125

Wordle 1,779 6/6

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HEART
SPOIL
PUNKY
PUPPY
PUDGY
PUFFY

8126

Wordle 1,780 3/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: :bird: :innocent: no Ai :kangaroo:

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Wordle 1,779 5/6* 5/3/2026

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BRING → Whiff. Followup is the classic first word second.
SLATE → Double whiff! And all WoFcons gone. I’d better try a word with -OU- (though the infamous -OUND trap is out) and look for a terminal Y next if it seems appropriate
POUCH → Finally some luck. But with U not in the middle… I’d better try that terminal Y, it seems like good day for a triple letter
PUPPY → Ah, nope. Two guesses left. Perhaps a double letter…
PUFFY

I was safer than I felt; after my third guess, there were but four words left, two of them bogus. Scoredle rated that guess as 29/143, a bit pedestrian but it turned out to seal the deal. Scoredle’s second and third guesses were a better sequence than mine, but it ended up in the same place - bogey, with the same two-guess sequence at the end.

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Wordle 1,779 5/6

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YODEL
ANTSY
JUICY
MURKY
PUFFY

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Wordle 1,779 5/6*

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STEAL
DROWN
JUICY
PUPPY
PUFFY

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Today’s average is 4.4, which i think is on the high side.

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Wordle 1,779 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST - Yeesh. Okay, so likely a double consonant and ending in ‘y’
BUNNY - ugh
DUMMY - ditto
PUFFY

I feel lucky to have gotten it in five.

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Wordle 1,779 5/6

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SLATE, PROUD, PUNCH, PUPPY, PUFFY

Damn. Had two to choose from at the end, and chose the wrong one. Such is life.

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Wordle 1,779 5/6

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DECAY
LINTY
SHOWY
JUMPY
PUFFY

I felt like I was flailing in the dark here, but every eliminated letter got me closer to the solve.
A tough one for a lot of us!

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Wordle 1,780 6/6

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WordleBot sez…

Skill 72/99
Luck 52/99

Adieu
Stony
Likes
Miser
Wiser
Riser

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Wordle 1,780 3/6

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RATIO
RISEN
RISER

I really thought I was going to get a two.

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What’s the consensus on sharing our own created Worldle’s?

Here’s mine, and if it’s verboten, I’ll never do it again…

You’re invited to play a puzzle created by Johnt.

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Wordle 1,780 4/6 — 2026-05-04 Mon

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH — possible Wordles include miser riser wiser; of these the previous Wordles were
miser wiser; remaining possible Wordles include riser
RISER

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Wordle 1,780 X/6*

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\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} – uh oh, here we go…
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}

Bastards.

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With a lucky first guess and some insider knowledge, I got a 2 !!

Wordle puzzle created by Johnt 2/6*

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SPREAD
DOPERS

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Wordle 1,780 5/6

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CRANE
HILTS
MISER
WISER
RISER

Sure

Skill 95, Luck 42. So it thinks i just had an unlucky day.
Today’s average is 4.3, fyi.