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

Wordle 1,341 5/6*

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Slept
Child
Droll
Madly
Badly

Wordle 1,341 4/6 β€” 2025-02-19 Wed
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
MADLY

Yeah, my wife too said it’s not a real word.

Wordle 1,341 4/6

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HEART
DAILY
SADLY
MADLY

Wordle 1,341 5/6

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SNARL
CLEAT
VALID
BADLY
MADLY

I don’t think I played BADLY, and all my guesses were VALID. Some days the letters just won’t fall.

Wordle 1,341 5/6

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SLATE
POINT
GALLY
BADLY
MADLY

Looks like I’m in good company today.

Wordle 1,341 3/6*

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LEAST
CORAL
MADLY

I got lucky today!

Wordle 1,341 4/6

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YEAST (?A??Y, perhaps? Let’s try two WoFcons.)
RALLY (Not a bad result. Another vowel, maybe.)
DAILY (I like finding that D. Pretty much clinches it.)
MADLY (Yep.)

Wordle 1,341 5/6* 2/19/2025

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INDIE β†’ Middle D on the initial guess is nice. But I couldn’t figure out how to get a word with A & O both. So I went with two vowels and filled in what else I could
PUDGY β†’ And now I’m worried about double D there, before the Y. With A still out there, I figured it was time to swing for the fences
DADDY β†’ The A was right, the Ds were wrong. I think the only thing that can go fourth is an L, and it looks like a 3-trap so I’ll try alphabetical order
BADLY β†’ Nope
MADLY

If I had remembered DADDY was already a solution, I might have skipped that step and gone straight on into the trap, thus making par. Scoredle falls into the same trap one earlier than me, but it has worse luck with its guesses and also takes the bogey.

Wordle 1,342 2/6

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RATIO
ROACH

Wordle 1,342 3/6

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ATONE
POACH
ROACH

Wordle 1,342 4/6 β€” 2025-02-20 Thu
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
ROACH

Wordle 1,342 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1342 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE Where’s my
ROACH clip?

Wordle 1,342 2/6

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HEART
ROACH

Wordle 1,342 3/6

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LINER
ROAST
ROACH

Thought I had a lucky deuce there for a second. But I’ll definitely take the birdie.

Wordle 1,342 5/6*

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LEAST
BRAND
WHARF
GRAPH < – Dammit! I repeated the misplaced R.
ROACH

Wordle 1,342 4/6

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SLATE
NOISY
COACH - Damn, should have gone with my first inclination, which was. .
ROACH

Wordle 1,342 4/6

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YEAST (Just an A. At least it’s placed.)
MIAOU (So I can do an efficient vowel search. How about ?OA??.)
POACH (Shoulda tried a WoFcon.)
ROACH (A lousy par. What a ripoff!)