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

Wordle 1,823 4/6 — NYT Average 4.5

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SLATE
FRAME
IMAGE
AMAZE

Wordle 1,824 4/6 WEDNESDAY

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AUDIO
POESY
COMET
TOKEN

Wordle 1,824 4/6

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RATIO
SOUTH
COMET
TOKEN

Wordle 1,824 6/6*

\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}

Stupid.

Wordle 1,824 4/6

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WordleBot sez…

Skill 58/99
Luck 55/99

Wordle 1824 3/6

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SLANT
TUNER
TOKEN

Could’ve also been TWEEN, maybe.

Wordle 1,824 4/6 — 2026-06-17 Wed

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
TOKEN

I’ve long since ceased being surprised by that. One thing you get from Scoredle is a list of all the alternative guesses available after each step, from Josh Wardle’s original list of 14,855 allowable guesses.

From decades as a bookworm, I think I’ve got a pretty good vocabulary, but most of those words are words I’ve never ever heard of before. So seeing some weird and totally unfamiliar 5-letter combination accepted as a legit guess is just something that happens.

FWIW, ‘marl’ is a kind of fertilizer. It’s a pretty uncommon word IME, but I had heard of it before, somewhere along the way. And the Web tells me that ‘marle’ is apparently an alternate spelling of ‘marl,’ principally used in the UK.

Wordle 1,824 3/6

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SLATE
OUTER
TOKEN

Wordle 1,824 3/6*

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Anole
Toner
Token

Not so much fertilizer as a soil conditioner to neutralize acidic soils.
Marl it is a type of sediment, a mix of carbonate minerals clay and silt. It’s in our lake. When hardened it’s called marlstone.

Interesting. That got me wondering about the name Marlboro (cigarettes) and Marlborough (places).
Also, marl makes up the lower part of the cliffs of Dover.
Marl - Wikipedia
/hijack

Wordle 1,824 5/6

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HEART
EMOTE
STEIN
OFTEN
TOKEN

Wordle 1,824 3/6

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YODEL
TONER
TOKEN

Getting xOxEx right off the bat looked trappy to me. I figured there wouldn’t be any more vowels, so I filled in the blanks with WoFcons. And it paid off!

Wordle 1,824 4/6* 6/17/2026

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AMAZE → Well, that’s a start. Add an O and three WoFcons to get
ROLES → Need some consonants - probably done with vowels. N & T left among WoFcons, I’ll try them with a D
TONED → Good thing I didn’t go with NOTED. OK, one letter left, and looking at all the possibles leaves us with
TOKEN

The third guess was 13/111, but left me with a tap-in. Scoredle goes the distance, being less obsessive about WoFcons than I am, but also finishes its double-bogey with a tap-in.

Wordle 1,824 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
NOTED - past tense is not normally an answer, but. . .
TOKEN

Wordle 1,824 3/6

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VALUE
TONER
TOKEN

Virtually nothing on the opener to a tap-in birdie.

Wordle 1,824 4/6*

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STEAL
ENTRY
TENET
TOKEN

Wordle 1,825 4/6 THURSDAY

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AUDIO
SLEEP
BERRY
ENTRY

Wordle 1,825 2/6

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RATIO
ENTRY

Not much left after the first guess.