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

Wordle 1,378 3/6 — 2025-03-28 Fri
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LEASTIt might be dense geese messy reuse verse; need to eliminate D N G M Y R U V
VYING
VERSE

Wordle 1,378 6/6

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meats
pesto
sewed
geese
lense
verse

Wordle 1378 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
PURSE
VERSE

After 2, I vacillated between PURSE and VERSE for the longest time before losing the mental coin toss. (REUSE and more obscure PRISE were also possibilities.)

Wordle 1,378 6/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt J} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,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 S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}

Few.

Wordle 1,378 4/6*

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Ivory
Revel
Serve
Verse

Wordle 1,378 4/6

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HEART
PERIL
SERVE
VERSE

Wordle 1,378 4/6

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SOLAR
PIETY
CURSE
VERSE

Wordle 1,378 5/6*

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Summary

LEAST
DENSE
GEESE
REUSE
VERSE

Wordle 1,378 2/6

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YEAST (Two greens! Let’s double up on the E and try a WoFcon.)
VERSE (Bingo.)

Wordle 1,378 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
PURSE
VERSE

Wordle 1,378 4/6

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CAUSE
NOISE
GEESE
VERSE

Wordle 1,379 2/6
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Blind squirrel strikes. :chipmunk:

@MacDoc , I’m trying to figure out your starting word and I can’t. What was it?

Because I’m in Australia I’m well ahead of the the midnight release elsewhere which is why I don’t show my guesses but if you happen to search for Wordle on the SciAm site you might find it :wink:

Wordle 1,378 2/6* 3/28/2025

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SHEET → Well. Two Es, unplaced, not many more places to put them, and an S. Gotta be close. EASEL and EAGLE are both excluded, so I’ll figure on Es in 2nd and last. ?ES?E goes nowhere, so try ?E?SE. ?ELSE goes nowhere. SENSE and TENSE are both out, so ?ENSE could only be DENSE. ?ERSE but not TERSE, could be VERSE. Other possibles not with WoFcons, of course. Ah, well, take a stab at it
VERSE
CEASE
is Scoredle’s second guess, which is better (though not luckier) than mine - half of the six possibles use that middle letter. Once Scoredle gets it down to three disjoint words, it finishes with a par. Still very happy with my lucky eagle.

Ah, I didn’t notice you’re a day ahead of the rest of us. Good thing I didn’t look up your starting word or I would have spoiled tomorrow’s!

Wordle 1,379 3/6

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RATIO
SHORE
SORRY

Wordle 1,379 5/6

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Wordle 1,379 4/6 — 2025-03-29 Sat
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
SORRY

Wordle 1,379 3/6

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storm
alien
sorry