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

Wordle 1,816 3/6*

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Alert
Swarm
Wharf

Wordle 1,816 4/6 — NYT Average 3.9

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SLATE
CRANK
PHARM
WHARF

Wordle 1,816 4/6*

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STEAL
ADORN
FAIRY
WHARF

Wordle 1,816 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
WHARF

Wordle 1,816 5/6

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RAINY
SPEAR
BRAWL
AWARD
WHARF

Wordle 1,817 4/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: :innocent: no Ai :kangaroo:

Wordle 1,816 4/6* 6/9/2026

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MAFIA → F, nice pickup, and the second A wasn’t wasted. Next up, E and two WoFcons, so it looks like
FEAST → A placed, nice, but little other progress beyond eliminations. I’d like to try something with two Fs to try to place the F, let’s try
CHAFF → Well played, and the H as a bonus! Of WoFcons, N has nowhere to go, L looks semipromising between A and F, what can go in front of H? Not S, not T, not C, maybe P, maybe W, hey that looks like
WHARF

Scoredle really liked my guesses: 2/110, 1/8, and the par putt was a tap-in. Scoredle’s own followup is superficially better than mine, but the third guess leaves it with a 50-50 putt for par, which it misses for bogey. Yep, I think we’ve all been there…

Wordle 1,817 2/6

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AUDIO
ALIGN

Whoop!

Wordle 1,817 5/6

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WordleBot
Skill 67/99
Luck 57/99

Wordle 1,817 2/6

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RATIO
ALIGN

Wordle 1,817 3/6

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Wordle 1,817 3/6*

\bbox[yellow,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}

Wordle 1,817 4/6 — 2026-06-10 Wed

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
ALIGN

Wordle 1817 2/6

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SLANT
ALIGN

I found 5 possibilities: ALIEN, ALIGN, CLEAN, GLEAN, ULNAR. Only ALIGN and ULNAR hadn’t been used, and that was an easy choice.

Wordle 1,817 2/6 — NYT Average 3.5

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SLATE
ALIGN

I see a few of us got eagles on this one. :smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

Wordle Bot said I had 16 possible words to choose from. I got pretty lucky.

Wordle 1,817 4/6*

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Frost
Nudie
Inlay
Align

Wordle 1,817 4/6* 6/10/2026

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WHARF → Kinda slow on the start. Most of my favorite first words second for this situation have A in the middle (STALE, LEAST, SLATE of course) but I can anagram to one that puts the A elsewhere
STEAL → Well, that’s something. I’m feeling a little vowel-hungry, so I tried to find something with O, but had little luck so turned to something with both I and Y, and randomly tried
NAILY → which is a word although highly bogus, I think. Anyway, I quickly put the A first, L after it, which made all the stars
ALIGN

The final guess was a tap-in. The third guess was 51/162, though I did briefly consider Scoredle’s top suggestion, but it didn’t finish off the WoFcons, which turned out to be key to finishing with par. Scoredle has some bad luck - with 4 possibles and only one valid after three guesses, it goes for one of the bogus words in an effort to avoid a six, which it does - but of course that means it takes a bogey.

Wordle 1,817 4/6

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HEART
GUANA
MANGY
ALIGN

Wordle 1,818 3/6

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Wordle 1,817 4/6

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YODEL
ULNAR
SLAIN
ALIGN