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

Wordle 1,813 4/6*

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Wordle 1,813 4/6 — 2026-06-06 Sat

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
MORPH

On the road this weekend, catching up:

Wordle 1812 3/6

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SLANT
LOGIN
NOBLY

NOBLE and NOVEL had already been used.

Wordle 1813 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
MORPH

HUMOR and ROUGH had already been used.

You look up the solution for that date, use it as your starting word, and it’s an easy 2. “It’s fine.”

Wordle 1,813 3/6

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RAISE
PROUD
MORPH

Making up for yesterday’s double bogey with a birdie.

Wordle 1,813 4/6*

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Recut
Drain
Sorry
Morph
Porch was my first guess then I changed my mind :weary_cat:

Wordle 1,813 3/6 — NYT Average 4.0

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SLATE
PROUD
MORPH

Took me a bit to sus out the third word. NYT analysis says that my second guess narrowed the solution down from 315 words to 1. All just luck though.

Wordle 1,813 4/6*

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STEAL
DROWN
JUROR
MORPH

Wordle 1,813 4/6

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HEART
LURCH
MYRRH
MORPH

Wordle 1,814 4/6

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Wordle 1,813 4/6

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YODEL
ROAST
HOURI
MORPH

Wordle 1,813 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
MORPH

Wordle 1,813 4/6* 6/6/2026

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NOBLY → Well, that’s a start. E and the last three WoFcons coming up, can’t do STORE but can do an anagram
TORES → I think there’s probably another vowel in there, so I’ll try a word with at least two more vowels, they’ve gotta go after that R, and for some reason I’m in a Tolkein mood
MORIA → No luck on the vowels, but I got lucky with the M, so maybe there aren’t any more vowels
MORPH

A sea of green - feels good after yesterday’s fiasco. My post-carryover guesses were Scoredle-rated as 4/991, 2/31 and 1/5, so pretty solid. Also pretty lucky, because while Scoredle also gets the sea of green, it takes a detour I managed to avoid and ends up with a bogey off the same two-guess sequenced that made my ending. Just glad to get back on the positive side of the ledger.

Wordle 1,813 6/6

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I went by feelz tonight. That wasn’t a great strategy!

CRANE
TOILS
DOWRY
ROOMY
FORUM
MORPH

The bot says i didn’t play that badly, and mostly got unlucky, with 86/21

Wordle 1,813 5/6

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COWER
TORUS
MORAL
MORON
MORPH

I hesitated a long time before hitting enter on MORON, but I truly couldn’t see anything else.

It’s little comfort that Scordle played every word exactly the same as mine.

Wordle 1,814 3/6

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RATIO
SHUNT
THUMB

Wordle 1,814 5/6*

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Wordle 1,814 3/6 SUNDAY

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AUDIO
PRUNE
THUMB

Wordle 1,814 4/6 — 2026-06-07 Sun

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
THUMBturns out, it’s the only possible word

Wordle 1814 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
THUMB

All three possibilities after 2 had been used: THUMB (Wordle 115), THUMP (669), and THIGH (1110). I went with the earliest choice, since the distribution of recycled solutions still seems to largely favor that.