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

The Game Room
841

Wordle 1,313 2/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ \end{aligned}

Woot.

842

I knew you’d get it in 2.

843

Wordle 1,313 2/6

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HEART
REACH
well, that was easy!

844

Wordle 1,313 2/6

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YEAST (Hmm. Try the rest of my WoFcons? Can’t use all three. Can’t use two.)
REACH (Eagle!)

845
Wordle 1,313 4/6* 1/22/2025

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ICING → One of the more useful letters, here. I’ll pair it up with A & E and two WoFcons… now should I use L-R or L-T, or maybe S-T? The middle, I suppose
CLEAT → Just the vowels hit. Time for that S now! Still haven’t located anything, but doubling up is hard with three letters known. ???ACE looks promising, but is it a trap?
SPACE → No. R is still out there. ERAC?, or REAC?, with T gone the latter leads to
REACH
BEACH was another possibility; combined with the answer, it invokes my favorite Fixx album. With its third guess, Scoredle hits the first-letter trap, and goes the distance to - finally - get the answer, though Cary Grant might have been offended by the guess it left for last.

846

Wordle 1,313 2/6

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RENAL
REACH

A fortunate opener today. I won the coin toss between REACH and REACT, without realizing I’d missed READY. So a good-luck day all around.

847

Wordle 1,313 3/6*

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LEAST
BEARD
REACH

848

Wordle 1,313 2/6

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CRANE
REACH

Been a minute.

849

Wordle 1,314 4/6

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RATIO
CRUEL
SUPER
UPPER

850

Wordle 1,314 4/6 — 2025-01-23
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LEAST
BOUND
CRIMP — It could be puree purge rupee upper; and previous Wordles have been purge rupee; that leaves words puree upper
UPPER

851

Wordle 1,314 5/6

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YEAST
LOUIE
RULER
BIPOD
UPPER

852

Wordle 1,314 5/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \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 D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \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 S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

853

Wordle 1314 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
UPPER

854

Wordle 1,314 4/6

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HEART
LONER
MIXER
UPPER

855

Wordle 1,314 3/6

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SLATE - Not a good start
POUND - Extremely lucky, as it only leaves. . .
UPPER

Wow, a two, followed by a three. Tomorrow will likely be a disaster.

856

Wordle 1,314 4/6*

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LEAST
GROPE
VIPER
UPPER

857

Wordle 1,314 4/6

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MAUVE
TUNER
USHER
UPPER

I almost went with SUPER at two, which would have given me a birdie, but decided to check more WoFcons. Ah well, hindsight blah blah blah.

858
Wordle 1,314 5/6* 1/23/2025

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REACH → OK, not bad. O and two WoFcons, and what do we get?
STORE → A word that makes basically no progress, that’s what. OK, last two WoFcons and… a I, I guess
LINER → This… is not good. Either a U, or another E. I’ll guess U, and I’ll guess another R, just in case we have another PARER/CORER type word
PURER → That was very lucky.
UPPER

There were something like 11 words remaining before I took my fourth guess. It wasn’t quite a trap, but there were more possibilities than I would be able to cover. Scoredle finishes in six, hitting the trap on two but very methodically making the last guess a sure thing.

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Wordle 1,315 3/6

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RATIO
CRUEL
CREPE

860

Wordle 1,315 4/6 — 2025-01-24
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LEAST
BOUND
CRIMP
CREPE