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

The Game Room
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Wordle 1,330 3/6

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YEAST (Good beginning. STEE?, perhaps.)
STEER (Went with the WoFcon. Guessed wrong.)
STEEP (That’s the one.)

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Wordle 1,330 5/6* 2/8/2025

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SWATH → That’s a nice start. Need to catch up on vowels.
STONE → Perhaps an I, next?
STEIN → Aw, darnit, I already knew there wasn’t an N. I’m thinking of consonant pairs to go on the end, and not coming up with much. Double E? Would be STEER, STEEP, STEED, don’t think there’s much else… and I think we did STEED recently, so
STEER → Nope, but right on the Es.
STEEP

I might have made a six if I hadn’t remembered a previous solution. Scoredle goes a slightly different route with its second guess, which leaves it with a 4-trap rather than my 3-trap after the third - so we both end up with a bogey.

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Wordle 1,331 4/6

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RATIO
SHONE
BOSON
BONUS

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You forgot

STEEL

1065

Wordle 1,331 3/6

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ALONE
SONIC
BONUS

1066

Wordle 1,331 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[lime,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 1331 3/6

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SLANT
NOISE
BONUS

Could’ve possibly been BOSUN or (Higgs) BOSON.

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Wordle 1,331 4/6

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HEART
SPOIL
MOUSY
BONUS

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Wordle 1,331 3/6

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YEAST (All I’ve got is one WoFcon. Double it and get some vowels?)
SINUS (That doesn’t leave much.)
BONUS (I’m pretty good at this!)

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Wordle 1,331 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
BOSUN - ::head smack::
BONUS

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Wordle 1,331 4/6* 2/9/2025

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STEEP → Slow start. Good first word second time…
LOANS → Added an O… and a terminal S. Curious, since plurals and second person conjugations are excluded from answers. At least the N gives me something to go with. Try an I?
NOIRS → So if the other letter is a U - ah!
BONUS
BORAS is Scoredle’s second guess, which gives it a birdie. I’m happy with my par, though if I had seen allt the remaining possibles after my second guess I would have also gone straight to the answer.

@psychobunny actually, I had a typo in my post. My second guess was STOLE rather than STONE, so both my third guess of STEIN was OK and the ending trap was a 3-trap rather than a 4. Thanks for pointing that out…

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Wordle 1,331 3/6

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ALIEN
ROUND
BONUS

Scordle goes right for BONUS after my starter, and scores a deuce from its own usual start word, SLATE, as well.
I am skeptical.

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Wordle 1,331 3/6*

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LEAST
FICUS
BONUS

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Wordle 1,332 6/6

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RATIO
SHONE
CLOUD
WOODY
MOODY
GOODY

I debated trying a sleuth word but didn’t think any of the other alternatives were likely.

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Wordle 1,332 4/6

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MORAL
FOCUS
BOOTY
GOODY

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Wordle 1,332 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 1332 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
GIMPY
GOODY

GOOFY had been used.

This one was a doozy, wasn’t it? And there were still some pretty kooky possibilities out there!

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Wordle 1,332 4/6

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HEART
SPOIL
CLOUD
GOODY

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PHEW!!! 6/6, me and @psychobunny

Wordle 1,332 6/6 — 2025-02-10
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
VUGHY — It might be — dodgy goody
DODGY — I lost the coin toss
GOODY — and, PHEW! is right! Although I’m 99.9% sure it had to be goody; my last 6/6 was on 2025-01-19 for Wordle 1,310 6/6 — 2025-01-19 when it was ROWER

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Wordle 1,332 4/6

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ARISE
COUNT
GOOFY
GOODY

I almost pulled a birdie out of my butt here. After deciding to try the double O and terminal Y, I considered GOODY at three, but didn’t much like it. Had I consulted the used words list I probably would have gone with it anyway. But I’m not upset to save the par after that start.