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

Wordle 1,375 2/6

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HEART
SHELF
sometimes you get lucky, just trying to see if S and/or L were in the puzzle.

Wordle 1,375 4/6*

\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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,375 4/6

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PHONE
CHEAT
SHEER
SHELF

Wordle 1,375 4/6*

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LEAST
SLIDE
SMELL
SHELF

Wordle 1,375 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SHEEP
SHELF

Wordle 1,376 4/6
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Drunkards walk getting it but happy with four

Wordle 1,375 4/6* 3/25/2025

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ANGLE → That’s not a a bad start. Try two of the three remaining WoFcons, and I’d like to try an O, but I can’t see a word with one, so another good consonant is my best bet
SMELT → Is this a trap? Looks like all consonants from here on out. Definitely no R, but I could double up on the L, with W or
SPELL → So with no second L, I could have an H between S and E, ergo
SHELF

Scoredle has an interesting path - it doubles up on two letters for its second guess, then reverses my second and third guesses as its third and fourth, ending up with a bogey. (From its own start of course, it kicks butt with a birdie.) There was a mini-trap in my sequence after my second guess, but it would have ended in a bogey at worst.

Wordle 1,375 4/6

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COATI
LURES
FLESH
SHELF

A little more thought might have earned me a birdie, or maybe not. But any time I can save par after whiffing on the opener is a win.

Wordle 1,375 4/6

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party
belch
shell
shelf

Wordle 1375 3/6

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SLANT
SPELL
SHELF

I had intended to go with a possible solution at 2, but none of them did a good job of narrowing things down if that guess was a miss. So at 2, I wound up using a past solution as a sleuth word. Did the job.

Wordle 1,376 5/6

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RATIO
SHONE
MODEL
BELOW
ELBOW

This is a word that always trips me up on Quardle and Octordle so I’m just glad to.get it.

Wordle 1,376 4/6 — 2025-03-26 Wed
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
ELBOW

Wordle 1,376 6/6

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manse
piety
gecko
roger
extol
elbow

Wordle 1376 4/6

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SLANT
CLIME
ELEGY
ELBOW

Don’t ask me why I saw ELEGY before ELBOW.

Wordle 1,376 3/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,376 3/6*

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Cleft
Elude
Elbow

Wordle 1,376 4/6

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STARE
CLOUD
PINKY
ELBOW

I should have had it in three (WordleBot says there was only one possible word left after two) but I burned a word trying to get or eliminate more letters.

Wordle 1,376 4/6

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HEART
MOVIE
OLEOS
ELBOW

Wordle 1,376 5/6* 3/26/2025

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SHELF → That’s not a bad start. I’ll try and add an A and two WoFcons for the follow-up
LEARN → Whiff. Perhaps an O, and the T, and what does that get me?
OWLET → Interesting. Is the E at the end?
WHOLE → No it’s not, and I already knew the L wasn’t fourth either! Ugh. At least I eliminated the H, small comfort. Well from here, it pretty much has to be
ELBOW
MELEE
is Scoredle’s second guess, going hard to place the E. This gives it a par, which I might have had if I had just taken another look before entering my eventual fourth guess. In fact, Scoredle says the only valid word left for my fourth guess was the answer, but I biffed it for the bogey. Rats. On the plus side, all yellows before the solution!

Wordle 1,377 4/6 almost a 3 a 4 will do.
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