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

Wordle 1,843 6/6 — NYT Average 4.1

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SLATE
TROMP
TOUCH
TOXIN
TOFFY
TODDY

Not sure why Wordle accepts words it deems “invalid” or “uncommon”. Either it’s a word or it isn’t. Why sting me for it?

Wordle 1,843 5/6

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HEART
STOOL
YOUTH
TOFFY
TODDY

Wordle 1,843 3/6

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WordleBot
Skill 88/99
Luck 75/99

Wordle 1,844 5/6

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Wordle 1,843 3/6*

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STEAL
DIRTY
TODDY

Wordle 1,843 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
POTTY
TODDY

Wordle 1,843 4/6* 7/6/2026

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SWAMI → Whiff, giving us an O+E+WoFcons followup, in this case an invalid one but it checks all the boxes
TRONE → Placed D, good, added O, good. U and Y remain of the vowels, it’d be nice to try both but TOULY isn’t a word… I guess I’ll give U a shot first
TOUGH → No luck. If there’s a terminal Y, what should I try in the middle - perhaps a hot
TODDY

My third guess was 9/11 (with 3 valid guesses), but I prefer it to Scoredle’s proposal because it locked in a par. Scoredle’s followup uses three vowels, so it places two letters from the outset; after one more largely eliminational guess, it sinks a 50-50 putt for a par.

I got today’s Wordle in four guesses. My fourth guess was the only word I could think of that fit the pattern, but I had doubts that it was right because it struck me as a very obscure word. I knew what it meant because my father used to make me one whenever I had a cold: whiskey, lemon juice, honey, and boiling hot water; you were supposed to drink it fast before the alcohol had time to evaporate. It’s not the sort of word I see or hear often at all. Gemini tells me it is a rarer word than myrrh which I seem to recall a lot of people complained about for being too obscure (but maybe not in this thread). In that case, I suppose it was the obscurity of the spelling rather than the word itself that bothered people.

Wordle 1,844 3/6

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RATIO
SHINE
SLING

Wordle 1,844 4/6 TUESDAY

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AUDIO
PRIME
SKILL
SLING

Wordle 1,844 6/6*

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\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}
\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 I}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\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 N}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\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 N}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}

Yesterday: Wordle 1843 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
MOTIF
TODDY

POUTY had been used; GOUTY seemed unlikely.

Today: Wordle 1844 2/6

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SLANT
SLING

After 1, there was just the SLING - SLUNG - SLINK - SLUNK quadrilateral. Whichever one I went with, the worst case was a 3. SLUNG was the only one that had been used, and early enough that a re-use wasn’t out of the question. So I chose one, and got lucky.

Wordle 1,844 3/6 — 2026-07-07 Tue

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STARE
DOILY
SLINGslice slick slime smile spill swill had all been used before

Wordle 1,844 4/6

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HEART
SPOIL
SMILY
SLING

Wordle 1,844 5/6

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WordleBot
Skill 85/99
Luck 36/99

Wordle 1,844 2/6

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REIGN
SLING

A great start! Still about 20 legit words left, though, so I got some luck for the eagle. It’s been a while!

Wordle 1,845 3/6

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Wordle 1,844 3/6

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YODEL
SLAIN
SLING

Wordle 1,844 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SPINY
SLING

Wordle 1,844 3/6* 7/7/2026

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TODDY → Whiff, and a wasted D. I’ll go with a well-loved followup
RENAL → All this and no vowels. I can’t see a word that exercises both of us (U and I) so I’ll try one, along with S and the two known WoFcons, mix together and add another consonant for…
SLING

I was pretty surprised when the letters kept coming up green - I hadn’t thought a solve likely. The answer was a good exploratory guess, at 2/31, but with something like 15-19 valids at that point, it took some luck to get the right one. Scoredle has some bad luck, guessing the order wrong on the remaining vowels at 3, then missing a 1-in-3 par putt that fortunately leaves a tap-in bogey.