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

Wordle 1,383 3/6*

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Summary

LEAST
NURSE
CURSE

Wordle 1,383 5/6

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YEAST (???SE probably. Lemme get some more vowels.)
GUISE (That U helps. ?URSE, perhaps.)
NURSE (So, it’s PURSE or CURSE. Damn, shoulda gone with a sleuth word, like PECAN)
PURSE (Guessed wrong.)
CURSE (Curses!)

Wordle 1,383 4/6

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HEART
LOSER
CRESS
CURSE

Wordle 1,383 3/6

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CRANE
CURVE
CURSE

Wordle 1,383 4/6

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SLATE
RINSE
HORSE
CURSE

I used the same start word as Scordle and beat it by one, but only because I won the coin-flip between CURSE and PURSE and it didn’t.

Scordle did check for a second E, however, which I did not. VERSE would have sent me to the bogey. So overall, I’ll take what I got and be happy.

Wordle 1,383 5/6

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lefty
smoke
piece
chase
curse

Wordle 1,384 3/6

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RATIO
SNARE
SHEAR

Got lucky and picked the right trap letter.

Wordle 1,384 4/6

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steam
speak
sheaf
shear

Wordle 1,384 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,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 L} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[yellow,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[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 A} \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 H} \bbox[lime,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} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1384 4/6

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SLANT
SPEAR
SWEAR
SHEAR

Fell into the mini-trap. Fortunately, SMEAR had already been used.

Wordle 1,384 4/6

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PAINT
LOUSY
SMEAR
SHEAR

Wordle 1,384 2/6

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HEART OK everybody, take one step to the right
SHEAR

Put your hands on your hips, and bring your knees in tight :grin:

Another one gotten on turn 2. starting word is Choir.

Wordle 1,384 2/6

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Wordle 1,384 3/6*

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Summary

LEAST
SWEAR
SHEAR

Damn! Almost had a two. It’s been a long time.

Wordle 1,384 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST - now do the hokey pokey and turn yourselves around
SHEAR

Wordle 1,384 3/6

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YEAST (Looks promising. Try SA??E and add a WoFcon.)
SALVE (No? How about S?EA? and a different WoFcon?)
SHEAR (Gotcha!)

Ugh - rooky error - five guesses in
two fixed letters and one floater and I forgot the floater on the fifth guess…one guess left :scream: I put it down to the heat at midnight. 28 feels like 35. :hot_face:
Gonna mess up my nice run. And I did …had the right solution and once more forgot the floater… :cry:

Wordle 1,384 6/6* 4/3/2025

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CURSE → That’s quite a start. I’m worried about a second E now, so I’ll try
RESET → Not much help. L & N left. Gotta get some greens soon. Figured I’d try an L word, but got so obsessed with it I ended up with
SLIER → which is horribly bogus and repeats the E in fourth. Ugh. Really should have gone A here, right? So I amended my ways and went with
SPEAR → and with three more words to go into the space and two guesses left, my streak hangs by a die roll
SWEAR → Now by a coin flip
SHEAR

Someone upthread said the last word had already been used, in which case I was both safe and quite lucky I didn’t pick it. Scoredle has a much better third guess which leads it to a five.

Face plant for the record.
Wordle 1,385 X/6
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and my Apple Watch died. :sob: Not a good day.