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

Wordle 1,327 3/6 β€” 2025-02-05
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LEAST β€” It might be β€” belay decal delay fecal fella feral medal melba pedal penal regal relax relay renal; previous Wordles have been β€” decal delay feral medal regal relax; that leaves these possibilities β€” belay fecal fella melba pedal penal relay renal; therefore the letters to eliminate are β€” B L F C M P D N R
CRIMP β€” my usual word
PEDAL β€” I won the coin toss

Wordle 1,327 4/6

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YEAST (I’m thinking ?E?A? Maybe double up on a WoFcon.)
REBAR (Well, I placed the vowels.)
PECAN (That P is really useful. Only one plausible answer, because I don’t think PELAU will ever be the answer.)
PEDAL. (For the par.)

Wordle 1,327 3/6

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CRANE
PLEAT
PEDAL

Wordle 1,327 3/6

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ROAST
LADEN
PEDAL

Fun birdie! What I thought was an unfortunate opener led to an excellent second word.

MEDAL was also possible, but I went with the one I saw first.

Wordle 1,327 3/6* 2/5/2025

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TOOTH β†’ Whiff. Time for a good first word second.
RENAL β†’ And… that looks like a trap. But is it? I see one word, but I’m not sure if there are any others… well, at least one more, but I think my first word has a better chance of leading to another one I may have missed
PEDAL
LEGAL, FECAL, and DECAL
were what I missed on my perusal - so, a lucky ending for me. I should have gone with the last of those to minimize my likey score, as I could have ended up going the distance with the option I chose. Scoredle takes a bogey; it pares the possibiles down to six with its second guess (heh), then has bad luck with its guesses thereafter.

Wordle 1,327 3/6*

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LEAST
RELAY
PEDAL

Wordle 1,327 2/6*

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PLATE
PEDAL

Wordle 1,328 3/6

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RATIO
FLUID
PUPIL

Wordle 1,328 4/6 β€” 2025-02-06
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
PUPIL

Wordle 1,328 2/6* 2/6/2025

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PEDAL β†’ Well. There is one word right now that just jumps right out at me. Even though it’s a repeat letter, it does allow me to check two vowels. YOLO!
PUPIL
PROWL
was the other non-bogus word Scoredle helpfully pointed out to me, so I’m guessing a birdie was about my worst-case scenario. Scoredle tries one of the bogus words first, so gets that birdie. A rare two for me.

Wordle 1,328 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Q} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,328 5/6*

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Askew
Onion
Itchy
Quill
Pupil

Distracted and careless but not a bad hand otherwise

Wordle 1,328 4/6

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HEART
SPOIL
PUGIL arrgh! using an obscure word to eliminate letters when a perfectly common word is the answer.
PUPIL

Wordle 1328 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
PUPIL

Certainly wasn’t gonna get a 3 after my first two words turned up just one lousy yellow, so I’m happy with a 4.

Wordle 1,328 3/6

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POISE
PANIC
PUPIL

The only real choice left, but it took me quite a while to see it.

Wordle 1,328 5/6

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CRANE - Ugh
HOIST - Not a lot of help
MILKY
LUCID - Careless
PUPIL

Wordle 1,328 3/6*

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LEAST
QUILL
PUPIL

Wordle 1,328 3/6

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YEAST (Whiff. Time to break out the remaining vowels.)
CURIO (That’s serendipitous. I see HUMID, PUPIL and TUNIC right off the bat, and two of those are gone. And I can’t use TUNIC anyway because of the C.)
PUPIL (That’s about it.)

Wordle 1,329 4/6

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RATIO
STALE
SHAFT
SWATH

Wordle 1,329 3/6

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POWER
SWANG
SWATH