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

The Game Room
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Wordle 1,386 4/6

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juice
storm
moany
foamy

1822

Wordle 1,386 5/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,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 C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\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 A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ \end{aligned}

1823

Starting a new streak today…

Wordle 1,386 4/6

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SAINT
PROUD
MOCHA
FOAMY

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Wordle 1,386 4/6 — 2025-04-06 Sat
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
FOAMY

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HEART
CLAIM
AMASS
FOAMY

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Wordle 1,386 4/6*

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Alert
Chain
Swamp
Foamy

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Wordle 1,386 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
KOALA
FOAMY

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YEAST (Likely ??A?Y. I like GRAVY or OVARY.)
GRAVY (No? Then I like FLAKY or FOAMY.)
FLAKY (Had I gone with OVARY, I coulda skipped this step.)
FOAMY (I’ll take the par.)

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Wordle 1,386 3/6*

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Summary

LEAST
CHAIR
FOAMY

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Wordle 1,386 4/6* 4/5/2025

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KRILL → A not altogether unexpected whiff. S, T & N are left among the WoFcons, but I need too many vowels to try SATAN, so
NEATS → No WoFcons today. I’m going to shift gears a little and throw as many second-tier consonants at it as I can, to see what else I can pick up
CHAMP → That’s a little better, and amenable to a couple of vowels, via the word
FOAMY
MANES is Scoredle’s second word, and that initial letter gives it an easier par than I had. However, Scoredle really liked my last two guesses, so I have that going for me. Pretty fun day’s puzzle.

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Wordle 1,386 4/6

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ANISE
CORAL
TOADY
FOAMY

I almost went with MORAL at two, which would have given me a birdie. Instead I changed to the only slightly more common C.
Just the way things have been going lately.

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Wordle 1,387 3/6

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RATIO
INLAY
VILLA

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Wordle 1,387 4/6 — 2025-04-07 Sun
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
VILLA

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Honestly, just dumb luck on this one.

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TRANS
LOUIE
PHIAL
VILLA

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Wordle 1,387 3/6

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alien
lilac
villa

1836

Wordle 1,387 5/6*

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Wordle 1,387 4/6*

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Optic
Inure
Fishy
Villa

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HEART
MAILS
VOILA knowing I is misplaced, trying to place A and check for O and got lucky
VILLA

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Wordle 1,387 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
FLAIL
VILLA

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Wordle 1,387 4/6* 4/6/2025

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FOAMY → Slow start on WoFcons, though I’m half-done with vowels. So, three of the former and an E for the latter?
TALES → A placed L is nothing to shake a stick at, but I’m kind of at a loss for what to try next here. I want to try an I, but AIL?? goes nowhere, as does ??LIA. I thought of a few things and then slept on it here, woke up and saw
LILAC → which pretty much places the A by elimination, hence also the L, and then I saw
VILLA
GULAG, KULAK, CULPA and VULVA (hah-no way will that be an NYT solution) were, apart from my third and fourth guesses, the closest things to non-bogus words after two, per Scoredle. Scoredle also finishes in four, as my second guess turned out to be better, in the event, than what it tried.