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

Wordle 1,354 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
CHECK

Wordle 1,354 5/6*

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Slingin’ to see what’s sticks

Inert
Sweep
Chela
Chemo
Check

Wordle 1,354 4/6*

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LEAST
DIVER
COUPE - choosing this got rid of several words - FUGUE, GNOME, OZONE
CHECK

Wordle 1,354 3/6* 3/4/2025

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SPEAR → OK, that’s an interesting start. Could there be a second E? Probably the best bet on another vowel, considering where the E is. LEENT is not a word, so I’ll have to try a non-WoFcon
ELECT → Good guess on the consonant, but here I just got stuck. Went to bed, got up, listened to a podcast about eastern Europe and realized it had to be
CHECK

It turns out the start word is a really good one for today’s solution! Scoredle also finishes with a birdie, though the algorithm had four non-bogus words to choose from.

Wordle 1,354 4/6

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YEAST (Time to eliminate vowels.)
LOUIE (Are there two Es?)
CREED (Nope. But the C helps)
CHECK (The par was not quite expected. But I’ll take it.)

Wordle 1,355 4/6

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RATIO
CRUEL
SCRUB
SCRUM

Wordle 1,355 3/6 — 2025-03-05 Wed
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LEAST
CRIMP
SCRUM

Wordle 1,355 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[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 R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \\ \end{aligned}

Apparently I never hit the Reply button on yesterday’s Wordle. Here it is:

Wordle 1354 3/6

:white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 1,713
:green_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square: 8
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SLANT
CHORE
CHECK

Could have been CHEWY or possibly CHEEP. CHEEK and CHIEF had already been used.

And now for today’s:

Wordle 1355 4/6

:green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 446
:yellow_square::white_large_square::white_large_square::yellow_square::white_large_square: 4
:green_square::green_square::green_square::white_large_square::white_large_square: 2
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SLANT
CHORE
SCRIP
SCRUM

SCRUB had already been used.

Wordle 1,355 5/6

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ADIEU
COUNT
LUCKY
SCRUB
SCRUM

Tough one for me today.
I thought I’d saved par after chasing the U all over the board, but Wordle’s British roots popped up to deny me.

Wordle 1,355 4/6

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HEART
ROBIN oh drat that leaves U
SHRUB
SCRUM

Wordle 1,355 3/6*

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Swamp
Smite
Scrum

Wordle 1,355 3/6*

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LEAST
SWORN
SCRUM

Wordle 1,355 5/6* 3/5/2025

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CHECK → One and only one C, unplaced. I’ll go hard for the WoFcons, which means only one vowel next
SCANT → Trap? Or just trappish? Either way, need some vowels stat
SCOUR → SCRU, could be SCRUB or SCRUM. I’ll trust the B
SCRUB → Darn.
SCRUM

This one may separate those who check the used words list from those who don’t, to a certain extent. But hey, I did better than Scoredle, which went the distance for a double bogey and showed that it doesn’t check the used word list either.

Wordle 1,355 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SCRUB
SCRUM

Wordle 1,355 4/6

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YEAST
LOUIS
SUNUP
SCRUM

Wordle 1,355 4/6

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In my case it would have worked out to a 4 either way: since I got the yellow R as well as C on 2, it was down to SCRIP, SCRUB, and SCRUM for me at that point, and I’d have gone with SCRUB on 3 which would have told me which of the others was the solution.

Wordle 1,356 4/6

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RATIO
TRACK
SPLAT
ALERT

Wasn’t paying attention.