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

Wordle 1,390 3/6

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PEACH
SHEAR
WHEAT

Wordle 1,390 4/6*

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Edict
Spelt shouda been a clue :wood:
Great
Wheat

Wordle 1,390 2/6*

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Summary

LEAST
WHEAT

A repost, with corrected date.

Wordle 1,390 4/6 β€” 2025-04-09 Wed
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
SPARE

Wordle 1,390 2/6

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YEAST (Nice. Let’s start with ??EAT.)
WHEAT (Satisfactory.)

Wordle 1,390 4/6* 4/9/2025

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SPARE β†’ Can I get the other three WoFcons with the next word? Yes, yes I can
LATEN β†’ I think we have an AE here. ??EAT, perhaps? Gotta try
CHEAT β†’ Hmm, so close
WHEAT

Scoredle has the same finish, but messes around a little more in the midgame to earn a bogey. I used a bogus word for that second guess - I’m not proud of it, but it worked.

Wordle 1,391 3/6
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another 2am effort paid off :clinking_beer_mugs:
FOUR triples in a row :kangaroo:

Wordle 1,390 3/6

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STERN
CLEAT
WHEAT

A good second word leads to the easy birdie!

Wordle 1,390 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
WHEAT

Wordle 1,390 6/6

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storm
alien
taped
enact
great
wheat

Wordle 1,391 3/6

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RATIO
TORSO
TURBO

Wordle 1,391 4/6 β€” 2025-04-10 Thu
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LEAST
CRIMP
BOUND
TURBO

Wordle 1,391 4/6*

\begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \\ \end{aligned}

Wordle 1,391 4/6

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SPOUT - ok, shift one to the left
MOUTH - that didn’t work, try it again
OUTDO - O at the end, that narrows it down
TURBO

Wordle 1391 5/6

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SLANT
CHORE
ROTOR
TUMOR
TURBO

Screwed up guess #4, was I blind or what??

I’m on a roll lately, two 5s and two 6s in the past 10 games.

Wordle 1,391 4/6

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HEART
TRUCK
TUMOR
TURBO
Just love a truck with a tumor turbo

Wordle 1,391 4/6*

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Yacht
Tepid
Torso
Turbo

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Summary

LEAST
MOUTH
TUTOR
TURBO

Wordle 1,391 5/6* 4/10/2025

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WHEAT β†’ I was all ready for a whiff when the last letter came up yellow. WoFcons plus O & I, here we come
TOILS β†’ A little progress. I’ll try double-O over a U, because I can’t see much coming from T?OU?
TROOP β†’ Couldn’t get it through my thick head here that the O must be at the end, obvi. So I played around with U and R and eventually settled on something with my last WoFcon
TURON β†’ But I really should have cut to the chase with
TURBO

Scoredle points out, smugly ISTM, that in fact there was but one word left for me after three. Maybe I should have hit the sack then and I might have seen it this morning. Scoredle on its own makes almost the same guesses as me - one letter different on its second guess - but naturally doesn’t blow the par putt.

Wordle 1,391 3/6

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YEAST (Look for vowels. And a WoFcon.)
TULIP (One more vowel.)
TURBO (Gotcha!)