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

Wordle 1,847 4/6

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RATIO
LAPSE
BALMY
CANAL

Wordle 1,847 2/6*

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STEAL
CANAL

Woo-hoo!

Wordle 1,847 4/6* 7/10/2026

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AMEND → That’s not bad. I’ll try a couple of WoFcons and a vowel… and try as I could to find a really good O-word, I ended up seeing one with a terminal Y
NASTY → At lteast I placed a letter, very productively. I’d really like to try that O now, and I see a word that will do it, though it won’t knock out the L, but anyway
BACON → C is a nice pickup, and the N must go in the middle now. -ANCE and -ANCY endings are out. Could be PANIC, if an I, or if a second A, could be
CANAL
RANCH
and four bogus words with the same ending were also possible. My followup was a respectable 27/480, and the third guess was 2/71, though ironically the answer was 7/7, so from there Scoredle would have gone the distance. I also want to comment on the synergy of guesses 3 and 4. Scoredle’s followup is one letter off of the solution, so it ends up with a solid birdie.

Wordle 1,848 3/6

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Wordle 1,847 3/6*

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Scalp
Local
Canal

Wordle 1,847 3/6

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CRANE
CLEAN - well, that was stupid
CANAL

Wordle 1,848 3/6

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RATIO
FINAL
AVIAN

Wordle 1,848 5/6 SATURDAY

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AUDIO
AIRER
AMIGA
AXIAL
AVIAN

Wordle 1,848 3/6*

\bbox[silver,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\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 V}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}

!!

Wordle 1848 4/6

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SLANT
RIDGE
CABIN
AVIAN

Wordle 1,848 3/6

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YODEL
ASTIR
AVIAN

Wordle 1,848 5/6 — 2026-07-11 Sat

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
ANIMA
AVIAN

Wordle 1,848 3/6*

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STEAL
RADAR
AVIAN

Wordle 1,848 4/6

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HEART
CABAL
ASSAY
AVIAN

Wordle 1,848 2/6

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Wordle 1,848 3/6* 7/11/2026

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CANAL → No wasted A - and one placed, and another letter. I thought about words that might hit on two, for a while - be nice to get two eagles in a week - but then just started guessing stuff with two WoFcons and hit on
ANTAS → So placed the A and (implicitly) the N. Looking at A??AN, it still took me a while to see
AVIAN
APIAN
was also a possible, but less common and maybe bogus - every other possible after the carryover was definitely bogus. So a little more thought might have gotten me another two. Scoredle does get a two, hitting the solution on its followup. The word always makes me think of IP networking.

Wordle 1,849 3/6

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Wordle 1,848 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
ANIMA
APIAN
AVIAN

Wordle 1,848 5/6

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TRADE
WASPY
CLOAK
HUMAN
AVIAN

Wordle 1,849 5/6

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RATIO
SHALE
CLAMP
CLANK
CLACK