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

Wordle 1,342 2/6

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I was very lucky that my starting word helped.

Wordle 1,342 4/6* 2/20/2025

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MADLY → Slow start. One E and three of the four remaining WoFcons, stat!
NEATS → Not much but a placed A. Only vowel? Probably not with only the R still out there. If I try an I, I can get the R and two other fairly common consonants with a single word
CHAIR → Right consonants, wrong vowel.
ROACH

Scoredle takes a bogey, and its penultimate guess is the same as mine. It has an odd tendency today to pick words that double up on consonants when it doesn’t know there’s even one of them yet, which I think explains its poor showing.

Wordle 1,343 4/6

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SWEAT
CRIME
CLONE
CLOVE

I should’ve went with my guess, would’ve had a 3.

Wordle 1,343 4/6

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RATIO
SLOPE
GLOBE
CLOVE

Wordle 1,343 4/6 — 2025-02-21 Fri
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LEAST
CRIMP
CYCLE
CLOVE

Wordle 1343 3/6

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SLANT
CLIME
CLOVE

Wordle 1,343 4/6

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HEART
EQUIP
SHOVE
CLOVE

Wordle 1,343 5/6*

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

Wordle 1,343 6/6

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IDEAL
LONER
WHOLE
SLOPE
GLOVE
CLOVE

Damn. Stumbled and bumbled my way to a “Phew.”

I can NOT believe it, but I just got it on 2 again. Quite rare. My starting word has really helped lately.

Wordle 1,343 2/6

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Wordle 1,343 3/6* 2/21/2025

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ROACH → Picking up the C is nice. Add in three of our four unseen WoFcons and an E, shake up and jumble out with
CLOSE → Oh my. N or V I think are the two options, and I think we’ve already had CLONE, so
CLOVE

Scoredle does the exact same guesses, so that’s about as good as it gets for me. Scoredle from its own start scores a 2, so that’s pretty impressive.

Wordle 1,343 4/6

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YEAST (Another single vowel, unplaced.)
LOUIE (Ooh, three letters! ??OLE, maybe?)
WHOLE (Nope. but ?LO?E really only leaves one word. )
CLOVE (Another par. Who would have guessed?)

Wordle 1,343 4/6

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CRANE
CHOKE
CLOSE
CLOVE

Wordle 1,343 4/6*

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LEAST
BLEND
FLUKE
CLOVE

Congrats! Is your starting word a secret?

CHOIR

Wordle 1,343 5/6*

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Teary
Hoped
Elbow
Glove
Clove

Wordle 1,344 3/6

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CHOIR
CRAVE
CREAM

It worked!

Wordle 1,344 4/6

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RATIO
SHARE
CLEAR
CREAM

Wordle 1,344 3/6 — 2025-02-22 Sat
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LEAST
CRIMP
CREAM