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

Wordle 1875 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DEIGN
FEIGN

Boy, did I get lucky with my guess at 3! More interesting is that yesterday and today, we’ve had back-to-back recycled solutions for the first time. It’s been more than 6 months since they kicked off the recycling era, but they’ve only reused 20 old solutions in that time. Maybe this is a sign that they’re about to pick up the pace.

Wordle 1,875 4/6*

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STEAL
DEIGN
REIGN
FEIGN

Not lucky today, except for the _EIGN part on guess 2.

Wordle 1,876 3/6

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Wordle 1,875 3/6* 8/7/2026

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GRIPE → That’s certainly nothing to… complain… about. Might have a shot at a two. Could go with an ?IGE? center, but that seems to go nowhere. I would have seen SIEGE. Not many options with an -ING ending… so maybe ?EIG? and I see one word with a WoFcon
NEIGH → REIGN is out, or should I DEIGN to try
FEIGN

A 2/13 followup enables the birdie (along with some luck; 50-50 birdie putt & the ending I rejected could have made trouble on its own). Scoredle choses the other major fork (the ending I rejected) for its followup but manages to pull out a 1-in-3 birdie (with no outcome worse than a par, of course).

Wordle 1,875 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
LINEN - Well, that was stupid
FEIGN

Wordle 1,875 4/6

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MOVIE
LITER
DEIGN
FEIGN

I didn’t expect a lot from that random opener, and was happy to get two vowels.
Somehow, LITER didn’t even crack Scordle’s top 120 out of 533 possible follow-ups. But there wasn’t much left anyway after that; I think a par was in the offing no matter what I chose at three.

Wordle 1,875 3/6

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TRAIN
WIDEN
FEIGN

Wordle 1,876 4/6

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HEART
PROUD
PRIMP
PRIVY

Wordle 1,876 4/6

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RATIO
SHIRE
CRIMP
PRIVY

Wordle 1,876 4/6 — 2026-08-08 Sat

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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
PRIVY

Wordle 1,876 3/6 SATURDAY

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AUDIO
PRIME
PRIVY

Wordle 1,876 5/6*

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\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y}

Wordle 1,876 3/6

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CRANE
PROUD
PRIVY

Wordle 1876 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
MURKY
PRIVY

Wordle 1,876 3/6

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Making up for yesterday

CRANE
TOILS
PRIVY

There were a few possibilities, and i guessed one of the possibilities that would uniquely identify the answer if it was wrong. And i got lucky.

Wordle 1,876 5/6 —NYT Average 4.3

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SLATE
PROUD
PRICK
PRIMP
PRIVY

That’s the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. 56th Sea of Greens.

Wordle 1,877 4/6

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Wordle 1,876 4/6

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YODEL
ANTSY
JUICY
PRIVY

Wordle 1,876 5/6* 8/8/2026

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FEIGN → Not bad for a start. Don’t think I should assume it’s the sole vowel, so let’s try an A and three of the four WoFcons
TAILS → Maybe I should try a letter with I as the sole vowel - at the very least, it seems I need to try to find more consonants
BRICK → There’s one. Three letters to fill, three guesses left. Next vowel to try would be O, and I can try two more consonants also with
PRIMO → Not many letters left. Look for a pair of them and… aha!
PRIVY

8/473, 6/56, 2/8, 1/2 (and only valid guess), so that was a pretty good progression for my solution. Scoredle goes all-consonants for the followup, which gives it an extra yellow, and finds the first letter one guess before I do (with almost the same word as my third) but otherwise our guesses parallel one another closely - the algorithm also ends with a bogey.

Wordle 1,876 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
GRILL
PRIMP
PRIVY