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

Wordle 1,356 2/6 — 2025-03-06 Thu
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LEASTIt might be alert bleat cleat palet
ALERTgood guess!

Wordle 1,356 3/6

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Wordle 1,356 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1356 3/6

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SLANT
BLEAT
ALERT

Nine of Scoredle’s eleven words after 1 were real words, fortunately four of them (aloft, pleat, float, gloat) had been used, and my guess at 2 enabled me to choose the right one among the remaining words (allot, alert, bleat, cleat, bloat) at 3.

Wordle 1,356 3/6

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VOICE
LATER
ALERT

Nice! I don’t think I’ve ever had five blues before.

Wordle 1,356 3/6

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HEART
AVERT should have thought of the more common word first
ALERT

Wordle 1,356 2/6*

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LEAST
ALERT

@Bullitt - we matched today!

Wordle 1,356 3/6

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CRANE
SPEAR
ALERT

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YEAST
CLEAT
ALERT

Rather straightforward.

Wordle 1,356 3/6* 3/6/2025

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SCRUM → E & A and two of the three remaining WoFcons, in this case L & N.
LEARN → Lucky guess, as it turns out, because there was but one word, and if there’s one thing we need out there it’s more lerts.
ALERT

Scoredle takes a five from my start, including a miss on a 50/50 for par. This was a case where the WoFcon & vowel-heavy strategy I use ended up way better than Scoredle’s more systematic approach.

Wordle 1,356 4/6*

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Disco
Taper
Heart
Alert

Wordle 1,357 4/6

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STEAM
OUGHT
TOPIC
TROOP

Wordle 1,357 3/6

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RATIO
TROPE
TROOP

Wordle 1,357 3/6 — 2025-03-07 Fri
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LEAST
CRIMP
TROOP

Wordle 1,357 5/6*

\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[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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \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 O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1357 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
TROOP

Could’ve also been TROMP, ROOTY, or possibly PROTO, given this game’s occasional habit of treating prefixes as words. But it wasn’t a hard choice to go with TROOP.

Wordle 1,357 3/6

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SNAIL
TROPE
TROOP

An incredibly fortunate second guess!

Wordle 1,357 4/6* 3/7/2025

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ALERT → That’s not bad. Really, it’s a pretty good start word. But I need a vowel hunt follow-up, and throw in either N or S… I’ll try S for
TORUS → Some day it’s gonna be TORUS, and if it’s a whiff I’ll have to try BAGEL for my second guess. Or DONUT if I hit on the vowels. Anyway, I got hung up looking for an N here and hit enter on
TRONK → which was really stupid, but it at least got me looking for the answer which pretty much had to be
TROOP
TROMP and TROTH
were also out there, but the latter seems pretty archaic. Scoredle takes it in three, which I had a shot at if I hadn’t been so OCD about my process.

Wordle 1,357 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
TROOP - Pulled that one outta my booty

Having a pretty decent week, wordle-wise.

Wordle 1,357 4/6*

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LEAST
DIRTY
ROTOR
TROOP