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

The Game Room
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Wordle 1,371 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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \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 E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \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 E} \\ \end{aligned}

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HEART
SPINE
FENCE
NUDGE

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YEAST (Look for vowels.)
LOUIE (Okay, got a U. I can’t help thinking there’s another vowel. ???UE, perhaps?)
FUGUE (Nope only one U. But the G helps. ?UDGE, maybe? FUDGE is gone, but NUDGE and BUDGE are still unused. There’s never been an NU???, soooo…)
NUDGE (Par.)

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Wordle 1,371 4/6* 3/21/2025

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BASTE → For a second I thought it would be a whiff. I wanted to try O and three WoFcons, but ended up trying a word with two plus a Y
ROYNE → I have no idea what it means, but Wordle thinks its a word. L is still out there, as are U and I, and I see a really good word to use two of them
LUNGE → Hey, hey, wink, wink…
NUDGE

Scoredle gets it in three, because it needs to differentiate between two different traps on that third guess (?UDGE and ?UNGE). The former trap has three or possibly four nonbogus solutions, so a loss for Scoredle here is theoretically possible.

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Wordle 1,371 4/6

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AROSE
THINE
DUNCE
NUDGE

I was kind of disheartened after two, having gotten what seemed like fairly scant information.

But in reality, I’d narrowed the list to just eight legit words, and word three left no doubt.

A case of the eliminated letters being more valuable than those found!

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CRANE
HOIST
VENUE
NUDGE

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Summary

LEAST
CRUDE
FUDGE
NUDGE

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Wordle 1,371 6/6

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Yeesh.

TEACH
POISE
REVUE
BUDGE
FUDGE
NUDGE

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Wordle 1,371 5/6

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stale
mince
rogue
lunge
nudge

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Wordle 1,372 4/6

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RATIO
SHALE
AMPLE
AMBLE

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maths
amour
ameba
amble

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Wordle 1,372 4/6 — 2025-03-22 Sat
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
AMBLE

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SLANT
CHORE
FABLE
AMBLE

I had the same green and yellows after my same first two words last Saturday. Déjà vu.

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Wordle 1,372 3/6*

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Align
Atoll
Amble

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Wordle 1,372 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
MAUVE
AMPLE
AMBLE - so I guess verbs are on the table now

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Summary

LEAST
HAZEL
ANGLE
AMBLE

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YEAST (A and E. Probably ?A??E)
VALVE (Not a terrible guess, and at least I picked up the L. I’m thinking AL??E)
ALGAE (Well, I placed the A and have no other place for the L. AMPLE and APPLE are gone.)
AMBLE (Had to be.)

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Wordle 1,372 4/6* 3/22/2025

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NUDGE → Third in a row with a terminal E. I can make the first guess second easy here, though
SLATE → I shot from the hip at the first word I saw next, and it was at least moderately productive
APPLE → But I hit a wall here - AMPLE, ANGLE/ANKLE, all gone. So SunWife came over and I asked for her advice, and pretty soon she saw it
AMBLE

I had even thought about a solution one letter away and missed it. Still, it’s never bad to have help, even if I can’t call it a solo win. Scoredle shows six other bogus possibles for my last guess, most of which I had tried in my head and rejected. Scoredle itself takes a bogey and its fourth guess is one of those I rejected as bogus, so I’m not sure what’s going on there.