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

Wordle 1,806 4/6

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Wordle 1,806 5/6

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WordleBot sez…

Skill 86/99
Luck 44/99

Adieu
Story
Swipe
Slime
Smile

Wordle 1,806 3/6

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RATIO
SHINE
SMILE

Wordle 1,806 3/6*

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Wordle 1,806 3/6 SAT

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AUDIO
PRIME
SMILE

Wordle 1806 3/6

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SLANT
SHILL
SMILE

Had to think about this one a minute.

On the one hand, SMILE was the obvious answer after 2: the only alternative would have been SOILY, which seems kinda iffy to even be on the solutions list. But OTOH, SMILE was not only a previous solution, but it was the solution to Wordle #830, and since the recycling era was inaugurated with Wordle #0, CIGAR, on Groundhog Day, there had been just 10 reused solutions, and they’d been the solutions to Wordles 4,15,51,57,59,70,122,160,164, and 296. And 830 was quite the outlier to that sequence. Hell, even 296 had seemed like an outlier.

But on yet another hand (hi Zaphod!), ten data points isn’t much to go on. And since both SMILE and SOILY seemed to be gambles, I went with SMILE.

Wordle 1,806 3/6

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POISE
SLICE
SMILE

Wordle 1,806 4/6*

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Pudgy
Clast
Swell
Smile

Wordle 1,806 4/6

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YODEL
UTILE been a minute since I’ve used a sleuth word
MIGHT
SMILE
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Plausible words were WHILE, SMILE, GUILE, EXILE, and AGILE. All previous solutions.

Wordle 1,806 3/6 β€” NYT Average 3.4

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SLATE
SOLVE
SMILE

Wordle 1,806 4/6

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HEART
CLONE
WHILE
SMILE

Wordle 1,806 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SMILE

Very lucky, as there were five other possible words.

Wordle 1,806 3/6*

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STEAL
SLIDE
SMILE

Wordle 1,806 4/6* 5/30/2026

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CLANG β†’ Carryover gets very little. Followup is one of my favored first guesses second
LOSER β†’ Three yellows, one vowel (and two out). I’m guessing there’s one more vowel out there, so let’s try the I, and there’s one more WoFcon as well. which gives me a try of
STILE β†’ Oh, so close.
SMILE

Followup was oddly good at 67/1105, third guess less preferred at 85/100 (though it did leave just 3 possibles, two bogus). So, not a bad par. Scoredle makes a well-played birdie, doubling up on the known letter in its followup and making the 1-in-4 putt - so a nice day for the algorithm.

Wordle 1,807 4/6

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Wordle 1,806 3/6

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IRONY
STILE
SMILE

Finally! My first birdie in 19 days. That made me SMILE.

Wordle 1,807 3/6

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WordleBot sez…

Skill 84/99
Luck 87/99

Adieu
Stony
Etude

Wordle 1,807 3/6

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RATIO
CHUTE
ETUDE

Wordle 1,807 4/6

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CRANE
SLOTH
QUITE
ETUDE

The third guess was dumb, because i knew the T couldn’t go there. But i didn’t think ETUDE would be a valid wordle answer, and got distracted.

Wordle 1,807 4/6*

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