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

The Game Room
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Wordle 1,794 4/6

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RAISE
CLOUD
TOTAL
LOATH

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Wordle 1,794 3/6

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YODEL
LOTUS
LOATH

8383

Wordle 1,794 2/6* — NYT Average 3.2

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My 12th ‘Got it in Two’ guess.

SLATE
LOATH

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Wordle 1,794 4/6

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HEART
THANK
SWATH
LOATH

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Wordle 1,794 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
LOATH

Been awhile.

8386

Wordle 1,795 6/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: :woozy_face: Ai assist :person_shrugging: :kangaroo:

8387

Wordle 1,794 2/6*

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STEAL
LOATH

8388
Wordle 1,794 3/6* 5/18/2026

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BYLAW → Here, I almost go with SLATE, but I instead decided that would be cliche and decide to go with one of its three remaining anagrams, in this case
LEAST → Can’t be LLAMA, so a vowel in second, U and I go nowhere there so it’s an O, move the T over and add a letter - looks like an H
LOATH

This one went remarkably fast. The followup was 24/600; the two anagrams in the top 120 were 2/600 and 5/600 respectively, but I think I lucked into the best one for this puzzle. Scoredle gets a par largely by elimination; it places one of the carryover letters via the followup and third guesses, but gets no other letters until the tap-in par guess.

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Wordle 1,794 5/6

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WordleBot sez…

Skill 74/99
Luck 43/99

Didn’t do as well as most of y’all.

Adieu
Story
Bloat
Total
Loathe

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Wordle 1,794 3/6

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My 2 starting words gave it to me.

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Wordle 1,794 5/6

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SPOIL
LONER
LOWLY
LOTTO
LOATH

Almost tried a sleuth word at three, but I was convinced I could safely stay in hard mode. It was a slow grind, but I was right.

8393

Wordle 1,795 3/6

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WordleBot sez…

Skill 92/99
Luck 82/99

Adieu
Story
Dusty

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Wordle 1,795 4/6

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RATIO
CHUTE
LUSTY
DUSTY

I had three options left after I found the trap (DUSTY GUSTY and MUSTY so I decided to risk hard mode.)

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Wordle 1,795 5/6 TUESDAY

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AUDIO
DUPED
DUMMY
DUCKY
DUSTY

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Wordle 1,795 6/6

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HEART
STUCK
BUSTY
GUSTY
MUSTY
DUSTY

8397

Wordle 1,795 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}
\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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}\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 U}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y}

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Okay, this felt weird

Wordle 1,795 4/6

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CRANE
TOILS
DUMPY
DUSTY

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Wordle 1,795 3/6

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YODEL
BANDY
DUSTY

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Wordle 1795 2/6

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SLANT
DUSTY

Most of the possibilities had been used, so (assuming no repeat) the trap was down to just DUSTY/MISTY/TESTY with GUTSY and TORUS also possible. (I doubt the NYT will use BUSTY.) So I had a 1/5 chance at the 2, and got lucky.