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

The Game Room
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Wordle 1,379 5/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 1,379 3/6

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CRANE
LOUSY
SORRY

1723

Wordle 1379 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
SORRY not sorry :wink:

1724

Wordle 1,379 5/6*

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Rugby
Ferry
Marry
Worry
Sorry

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On a hot streak
Wordle 1,380 3/6
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Wordle 1,379 3/6

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YEAST (Hmmm. If I end with Y and begin with S, I can rule out some vowels.)
SOUPY (Caught one! Let’s try a WoFcon.)
SORRY (FTW!)

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Wordle 1,379 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SORRY

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Wordle 1,379 3/6

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HEART
SCORN
SORRY A Hallmark screenplay in three words

1729

Wordle 1,379 4/6*

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Summary

LEAST
BISON
SHOCK
SORRRY

Tough one for me today. I’ll take the par!

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Wordle 1,379 3/6

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CAMEO
ROIST
SORRY

The only word left that wasn’t bogus or plural, but it took me a couple minutes to find it.

1731

Wordle 1,380 4/6

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RATIO
FLOAT
ATONE
QUOTA

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Wordle 1,380 3/6

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TONER
SPOUT
QUOTA

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Wordle 1,380 5/6 — 2025-03-30 Sun
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
VUGHY
QUOTA

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Wordle 1,380 5/6

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haste
flats
wrath
aorta
quota

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Wordle 1,380 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Q} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \\ \end{aligned}

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Wordle 1380 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
BIOTA
QUOTA

Well, I’m feeling really stupid right now. I could see after 2 that the solution almost surely ended with OTA, and I usually notice whether there’s room for a QU at the beginning of a word, but this time I didn’t. Oopsie.

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Wordle 1,380 3/6*

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Tango
Atoll
Quota

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Wordle 1,380 3/6

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HEART
TASTY
QUOTA sometimes fishing for letters lands the big one.

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Wordle 1,380 3/6

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YEAST (Try TA???, maybe? Nope. How about T??A?, then? With a couple of WoFcons?)
TRIAL (Okay stop screwing around and find more vowels.)
QUOTA (Good enough.)

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Wordle 1,380 3/6*

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Summary

LEAST
BATCH
QUOTA