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

Wordle 1,364 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
JUICE
MINCE
PIECE

Should have been a three. A total brain fart on the 3rd and 4th words.

Wordle 1,364 4/6

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YEAST (Look for vowels.)
LOUIE (Try the remaining WoFcons.)
URINE (Must be ?I??E. Only plausible ones are GIMME, MIDGE, and PIECE.)
PIECE (That’s it!)

Wordle 1,364 4/6

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ROUTE
SLICE
WINCE
PIECE

I flipped a coin between WINCE and MINCE; doubling up on the E never even occurred to me. But, even if I’d found all possible words, MINCE or WINCE would have been the right play, to eliminate each other as well as NIECE. So we’ll pretend I played this brilliantly.

Wordle 1,364 4/6* Pi Day 2025

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CHASE → Highly evocative of a -CE ending. Throw in an O… but can’t get two WoFcons, one will have to do. (In retrospect, OUNCE would have been a good one here)
FORCE → Placed the two letters I know. Saw a word that could get an N and a U, and went quickfy for it
DUNCE → Stared at this for two minutes and went to bed. Woke up and fortunately did not see TWICE, but realized that I could check both I and a second E with
PIECE

Scoredle really liked my third and fourth guesses, but its second guess was a thing of beauty, leaving only the single-word tap-in for birdie.

Wordle 1,364 3/6

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Slapping letters
Wordle 1,364 X/6*

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Hoist
Inlay
Wider
Gimme
Pique
Pixie

Wordle 1,365 3/6

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RATIO
LANES
LADLE

I beat the kitchen implement curse!

Wordle 1,365 4/6 — 2025-03-15 Sat
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
LADLE

Wordle 1,365 5/6

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Wordle 1,365 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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\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 D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1365 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
FABLE
LADLE

Wordle 1,366 4/6
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Happy with my new start word. I was using atone but SciAm article sez soare a good one

Wordle 1,365 3/6*

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Summary

LEAST
LANCE
LADLE

Wordle 1,365 5/6

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HEART
CLEAN
AMPLE
FABLE
LADLE

Wordle 1,365 5/6

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YEAST (Gonna try ?A??E.)
WAIVE (Well, I placed the A and E. Put in a WoFcon.)
PADRE (The D helps.)
CADGE. (I guessed wrong and it’ll be a bogey.)
LADLE (Only one left. And I bet the bot congratulates me for getting it. )

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Wordle 1,365 6/6

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First six in quite awhile.

CRANE
HOIST
MATTE - not thinking, again
EAGLE
FABLE
LADLE

Wordle 1,365 4/6* 3/15/2025

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PIECE → One E, placed. No repeated E. No I. A solid start. Three WoFcons and an A, coming right up
STALE → ANGLE might have been better here (though I think it’s already a solution?) but I saw a pairing with F & G that I really wanted to try
FABLE → And here I was stuck for a while. I tried double-L for a while and got nowhere. Was playing around with D when I realized it might be a repeat, not double, L, therefore
LADLE
HAYLE
is what Scoredle wants me to try for a fourth guess. Seems crazy to me when there is only one non-bogus word right there. Oh, and one word from the Hawaiian. There were seven very well scattered valid words after my second guess - this was a tougher puzzle than it may have seemed.

Wordle 1,365 5/6

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RATIO
PANEL
EAGLE
CABLE
LADLE

I want to think I didn’t play this one poorly, despite the bogey. PANEL, given the little information I had, wasn’t a bad guess, and EAGLE did its job of placing the E, though it dropped me into a bit of a mini-trap.
I saw CABLE, SABLE, and LADLE. The one I missed was FABLE, which, had it been the solution, I would have gotten to in six.
No danger of a fail, but I didn’t have much luck today.

For certain values of “quite awhile” :wink:

Wordle 1,366 3/6

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STRAP
STAPH
STAMP

Obviously should’ve been 2. I whiffed it.