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

Wordle 1,345 3/6

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CRANE
STEER
OTTER

Two good days in a row, and it appears I did better than most today.

Wordle 1,345 4/6* 2/23/2025

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CREAM → Always nice to get some common letters out of the way with the first guess. I’ll try two more WoFcons and an A… and that -RE sequence looks really good as an ending, so
STORE → May be all out of vowels. Swap R & E, move O to the front and try
OTHER → Oh, darn, I got doubled.
OTTER
OUTER-OTTER
is the most common endgame sequence right now - I thought for a second my pair might have a shot. Scoredle gets into an traplike sequence with the last two letters green but nothing else, then gets a lifeline on four and finishes with a bogey. At least Scoredle likes my endgame once I enter my second guess.

Wordle 1,345 3/6

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STILE
ETHER
OTTER

Quite the satisfying birdie today.

Wordle 1,346 4/6

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RATIO
SHALE
CLANG
GLAND

Wordle 1,346 4/6 — 2025-02-24 Mon
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LEAST
CRIMP
BLANK
GLAND

Wordle 1,346 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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1346 4/6

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SLANT
CLANK
PLANE
GLAND

Lost the coin toss on 3.

Kinda aggravating to get 3 greens with my starting word, and still wind up with a 4, but there were enough possibilities after 1 to be a mini-trap. BLAND, FLANK, PLANK had already been used, but that still left BLANK, CLANK, CLANG, GLAND, PLANE.

Anybody else subscribe to the AWAD newsletter? (That’s A Word A Day) Today’s newsletter is about Wordle, and it includes a link to their version of Wordle.

It’s a killer.

Wordle 1,346 3/6

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HEART
PLAID
GLAND
wow no yellows this time

Wordle 1,346 5/6

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YEAST (Vowel hunt!)
MIAOU (Hmmm. ?LACK, perhaps?)
FLACK (Nope. Now we’re in trap territory)
BLAND (That helps.)
GLAND (I’ll take the bogey and be grateful for it!)

Wordle 1,346 5/6

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Ugh, a trap right out of the gate.

SLATE
BLACK
FLAIR
CLAMP
GLAND

Wordle 1,346 5/6*

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LEAST
DRAWL
PLAID
BLAND
GLAND

It didn’t work out too well for me today!

Wordle 1,346 3/6* 2/24/2025

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OTTER → Whiff. But in my haste, I reused a letter but somehow got very lucky, as SLAIN would not have been as good a second word in the event
LOANS → That repeat O sticks out like a sore thumb, but I know know three letters placed. I considered PLANK here, and I’m kinda glad I didn’t see BLAND, but took a shot at the first word I could think of
GLAND

So that was a very lucky birdie, and somehow duplicating a known not-good letter still helped me. Scoredle, better than me but less lucky, ends up with a bogey.

Wordle 1,346 6/6

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LONER
INLAY
SLANT
BLANK
CLANG
GLAND

Wow, I made quite a mess of this one.
I suppose I could defend all of my choices, but the truth is I was playing too fast and not really thinking things through.
My one saving grace is that CLANG and GLAND were the only legit words left after four, so at least I wasn’t going to fail.

Wordle 1,346 4/6

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Still having some odd luck. Just to be able to go from one letter to full solve is crazy for me.

Wordle 1,347 5/6

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RATIO
LUNES
CHEER
FRYER
DRYER

Wordle 1,347 4/6

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ALONE
DICER
DETER
DRYER

Wordle 1,347 4/6 — 2025-02-25 Tue
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
DRYER

Wordle 1347 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
PRIED
DRYER

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Wordle 1,347 3/6*

\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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}

Ha! Take that, wordle.