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

Wordle 1,807 4/6

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AUDIO
DRUPE
ELUDE
ETUDE

Wordle 1807 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
BUTTE
ETUDE

Wordle 1,807 4/6 — 2026-05-31 Sun

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
ETUDE

Wordle 1,807 3/6

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STARE
GHOUL
ETUDE

Wordle 1,807 5/6*

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Arose
Chime
Elude
Exude
Etude

Wordle 1,807 2/6*

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STEAL
ETUDE

Wordle 1,808 5/6

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Wordle 1,807 3/6 — NYT Average 3.8

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SLATE
TRIPE
ETUDE

This one had me thinking for a while, as I wasn’t even sure if ETUDE was a word. Even looking it up, I was unsure if it was the right move. Whew.

Well, I would have posted my result today, but for some reason the wife (who is on the same NYT account) decided to try the Wordle. Now, she tried it a long time ago and didn’t like it because she didn’t understand how it worked. Well, she still doesn’t understand how it works, nor what the goal of it is. But she did manage to fuck up my 80 day run, so I’ll be starting over (again) tomorrow. ::head smack::

Wordle 1,807 4/6* 5/31/2026

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SMILE → Placed E, not bad, and some good eliminations. Couldn’t find a three-WoFcons-and-a-vowel word, so went with two and two vowels, which was probably better anyway
ORATE → Though it didn’t really turn out that way. I looked for Ns here but couldn’t find a good word, so eventually figured there might be a second E, and tried to place it
TEPEE → No placement, but there is one at least. I tried lots of bogus words with an E in the middle before I put it at the start, once I followed it with the T the excellent crossword word came to me
ETUDE

My followup wasn’t in the top 120 out of 580, but Scoredle gave me a 1/22 for the third guess, which left me with but one valid word left. Scoredle plays an elimination game, getting down to just two possibles with the original green and one other yellow letter on the board before it makes its 50-50 putt to cinch par.

Wordle 1,807 4/6

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YODEL
TREAD
DEIST
ETUDE

Wordle 1,807 3/6

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STRAW
UTILE
ETUDE

Two birdies in a row! Woohoo!

Wordle 1,808 6/6

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WordleBot sez…

Skill 77/99
Luck 26/99

Adieu
Story
Flick
Climb (duh)
Child
Chili

Wordle 1,808 5/6

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RATIO
DUNES
CHIMP
CHILL
CHILi

Automatically entered my second word for higher level puzzles (quordle , octordle) without thinking.

Wordle 1,808 4/6 MONDAY

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AUDIO
PRIME
CHILL
CHILI

Could so easily have been a 3, it was a toss-up.

Wordle 1,808 3/6 — 2026-06-01 Mon

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STARE
DOILYpossible Wordles include chili chill quill; of these, prior Wordles do not include chili
CHILI

Wordle 1,808 6/6*

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Wordle 1808 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
CHILI

CHILL and CHILD have been used.

Wordle 1,808 5/6

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STARE
POUND
MILKY
CHILL
CHILI
I thought about playing chill at 3 but decided to go with a word that also had a Y, which didn’t help.

Wordle 1,808 4/6

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YODEL
ULNAR
LICIT
CHILI