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

Wordle 1,781 3/6*

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STEAL
LOATH
LATCH

I agree with others - a separate thread for created Wordles.

Wordle 1,781 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST - uh-oh, I smell a trap
MATCH
LATCH

Lucky to get it in four.

Wordle 1781 3/6

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SLANT
LATER
LATCH

Wordle 1,781 5/6* 5/5/2026

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RISER → Whiff. I’ve gotten a lot of carryover whiffs lately. Is NYT conspiring against me? Eh, probably not. Easily picked followup is
TONAL → And where do I try for the placement? Not as easy when you have three letters, it’s harder to double (or triple) up enough to make a difference… so I’ll add one of the remaining vowels and try and find
FAULT → Missed on the new letters, placed one old. And it’s getting late early. I don’t think I have a terminal Y, but feel like I should try it with that A placement, so
MALTY → LAT??, by elimination, so pretty much has to be
LATCH

WoFcon obsession avoids trap, fortunately - it could have gone another way if it had been a different solution word out of that trap. Scoredle liked my second and third guesses - 76/1912 and 1/24 respectively, and I missed its pick for fourth by one letter. Scoredle falls into the trap on its fourth guess, then makes a miracle 1-in-5 save for a bogey of its own, at a point where the odds favored a loss.

Wordle 1,782 4/6

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

Wordle 1,782 3/6

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WordleBot sez…

Skill 76/99
Luck 72/99

Adieu
Story
Liken

Wordle 1,782 6/6

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RATIO
SHINE
INCEL
LINEN
LIVEN
LIKEN

Wordle 1,782 5/6*

\bbox[silver,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}

Wordle 1,782 5/6 — 2026-05-06 Wed

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
LIVEN
LIKEN

(Found in my edit window from yesterday; I forgot to hit send.)

Wordle 1,781 5/6

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MEDAL
RALLY
LASSO
LAUGH
LATCH

Gah. Not enough coffee in me.
I’ll defend my use of the double L and terminal Y, but I don’t know what I was thinking with the double S out of nowhere.

And today:

Wordle 1,782 4/6

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PROVE
LEANT
LINEN
LIKEN

Almost pulled off the birdie. And fortunately I’d burned the V already.
Not bad after a slow start, and definitely better than yesterday’s effort.

Wordle 1,782 3/6

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YODEL
LITER
LIKEN

Wordle 1,782 5/6

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STARE
CLOUD
WIMPY
LIVEN
LIKEN

Wordle 1,782 4/6

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SLATE
FELON
LIVEN
LIKEN

Wordle 1,782 5/6

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HEART
PLIED
LINEN
LIVEN
LIKEN

Wordle 1,783 4/6

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Wordle 1,782 4/6* 5/6/2026

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LATCH → Was hoping for LATER, and for a second thought I had it. Well, perhaps I can avoid being a
LOSER → So the placed E is a nice pickup, and I should try an I and N with my next guess, which invokes
LINED → Move the N to the end, it’s not LINEN, so I’ll try
LIKEN

Scoredle loved my followup - 1/270, but the third guess, as good as it turned out to be, was only third among valids and 5/21 overall. Still, it set up a 50-50 for par. Scoredle’s variant for its third guess leaves it with the same 50-50 as mine, and it also sinks it for par.

Wordle 1,782 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
MINED
GIVEN
LIKEN

Wordle 1,782 3/6*

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STEAL
FELON
LIKEN

Wordle 1,783 5/6

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WordleBot sez…

Skill 95/99
Luck 48/99

Adieu
Dunce
Pudge (uh-oh)
Fudge
Budge

Wordle 1,783 3/6

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RATIO
LUNES
BUDGE

Lucky.