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

The Game Room
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Wordle 1,872 5/6* 8/4/2026

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REPLY → Whiff. I thought about words with O and A, but couldn’t find any with the last three WoFcons, so I went with O and U
SNOUT → Not too bad. Time to try some more consonants
HOTCH → Why did I repeat the H? At least the OT is placed. Could I have a double of one of them - or both?
MOTTO → Nope, but the M was nice to get. I didn’t see a word with A, here, but one with I suggested itself
MOTIF

I guess I really botched that third guess, huh? Fourth guess was 2/6, but I’m sure you can guess what 1/6 was. Scoredle finishes with a tap-in par; its two middle guesses are amazingly incisive - and it gets the sea of green award, to boot.

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Wordle 1,873 3/6*

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Edify
Spoil
Posit

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Wordle 1,873 3/6 WEDNESDAY

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AUDIO
TOPIC
POSIT

9624

Wordle 1,873 2/6*

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\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}

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Wordle 1,873 3/6

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RATIO
TONIC
POSIT

Almost had a two but changed to a more common word.

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Wordle 1,873 3/6 — 2026-08-05 Wed

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STARE
DOILY
POSIT

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Wordle 1,873 3/6

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RADIO
LOGIC
POSIT

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Wordle 1,873 3/6

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HEART
SPOUT
POSIT

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Wordle 1,873 3/6 — NYT Average 3.3

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SLATE
CRUST
POSIT

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Wordle 1,873 3/6*

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STEAL
MISTY
POSIT

It’s 3’s all the way down! (Except @pjd ! Way to go!)

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Wordle 1,873 3/6* 8/5/2026

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MOTIF → That’s quite a carryover! Do I have a shot at a two? First thing I think of is
TOXIC → Ah, so the T is on the end. I’ll try the first word I see again, so
POSIT

Followup was 2/15, with only the top-rated six guesses valid, and five of them started with my carryover yellow, so a three was certainly reasonable. With the same carryover, Scoredle also makes a birdie with ease.

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Wordle 1,873 3/6

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YODEL
ROAST
POSIT

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Wordle 1,873 3/6

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CRANE - oh shit!
HOIST - oh yeah!
POSIT

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Wordle 1,873 4/6

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BLAND
STORE
MOIST
POSIT

From my opener, Scordle plays it nearly exactly the same, only using a bogus anagram of my follow-up, and also pars from its own starter. So I don’t feel too bad about this one.

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Wordle 1,874 4/6

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

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Wordle 1,874 6/6

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RATIO
SHIRE
CRIME
BRIDE
PRIZE
GRIPE

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Wordle 1,874 3/6 THURSDAY

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AUDIO
PRIME
GRIPE

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Wordle 1,874 5/6 — 2026-08-06 Wed

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STARE
DOILY — the Wordle could be bribe brine crime grime gripe price prime prize urine; of these, previous Wordles have not been urine
URINE — the Wordle could be bribe crime grime gripe price prime prize; letters to eliminate are B C M G P Z; can try sleuth word(s) camps?
CAMPS
GRIPE

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Wordle 1,874 3/6*

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Looks like I forgot to post yesterday;

Wordle 1873 3/6

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SLANT
WREST
POSIT

VISIT had already been used.

Wordle 1874 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
PUREE
GRIPE

I was rather pleased with this 4. After 2, I had just two viable unused possibilities, EYRIE and PUREE. I could have just flipped a coin between them, but I figured I had room to consider the possibility of reuse. Turned out there were a half-dozen old solutions that had been used in the 200s or earlier, and PUREE, if it turned out to not be the solution, ought to tell me which one of those old solutions was. And since GRIPE had been the solution to Wordle 187, that worked out well.