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

Damn - best shot at a two in a long time.
Wordle 1,369 3/6
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I was sure I had a three.

Wordle 1,368 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
TIRED
TIGER
TIMER

Wordle 1,368 3/6*

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Summary

LEAST
TOKEN
TIMER

Wordle 1,368 4/6

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OPINE
LITER
TIGER
TIMER

Lost the coin flip.

Wordle 1,368 4/6* 3/18/2025

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LASSO → Whiff. I and E and the three remaining WoFcons. I had to jumble them around until I found a word that Wordle would take
TRINE → I don’t know what it means, either. And now that I think of it, I should have tried NITRE. Still, from zero to four lettters, one placed - I’ll take it! I see a good followup with an H too…
THEIR → Assume an -ER ending, TI?ER, could be G, M or (uncommon) another T, can’t be an Italian river, so I think I’m safe. Try M
TIMER

Scoredle had a very lucky save for bogey - I counted eight nonbogus possibles out of its set of 13 on its fifth guess, and you could make a case for all 13. Still, it came out better than from its own start, which went the distance.

Wordle 1,368 4/6

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Wordle 1,369 4/6

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RATIO
SHARE
SCARY
SPARK

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Wordle 1369 4/6

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SLANT
SCAMP
SPARE
SPARK

Wordle 1,369 5/6*

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Slyly
Spook
Speak
Spank
Spark

Don’t try this at home kiddos

Wordle 1,369 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[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 S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,369 3/6

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HEART
SNARL
SPARK

Wordle 1,369 3/6 — 2025-03-19 Wed
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LEAST
CRIMP
SPARK

Wordle 1,370 5/6
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Was stupid on second guess …too sleepy.
Third time left me with 5 possibles.
Used up fourth guess to eliminate 4 letters to make sure at least I had it on the 5th.
Oddly - the actual win was the first word that came to mind :zany_face:

Wordle 1,369 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SWARM
SPARK

Wordle 1,369 3/6

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YEAST (Let’s try another vowel and a WoFcon.)
SWAIN (Placed the S. OK, let’s try another WoFcon and no other vowel.)
SPARK (Chirp chirp, little birdie!)

Wordle 1,369 3/6* 3/19/2025

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TIMER → A, O, two more WoFcons - what kind of word can I make? Probably a bogus one, but what’s the harm?
ROANS → Can’t see a way to add U or Y to that, so let’s try consonants. SRA?? goes nowhere, S?AR? could be
SPARK

A lucky guess out of ten possibles for the birdie. Scoredle is more methodical on its third guess, which garners a par, where I could have easily gone the distance if the solution had been a different word.

Wordle 1,369 2/6*

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Summary

LEAST
SPARK

That was extremely luck, with 29 words remaining.

Wordle 1,369 3/6

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WEARY
SHARP
SPARK

Wordle 1,369 4/6

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OUNCE
TRAIL
SHARP
SPARK

Happy enough with the par after that opening whiff.