“Wordle,” a strangely compelling word game (Part 4)

Wordle 1,913 4/6

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CHAIR
IRONY
REIGN
RINSE

Wordle 1,913 3/6

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YODEL
URINE
RINSE

Wordle 1,913 2/6 — NYT Average 3.2

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SLATE
RINSE

My 15th Wordle in 2.

After my first guess, there were still 33 words to choose from.

Wordle 1,914 5/6

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Wordle 1,913 3/6

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HEART
LONER
RINSE

Wordle 1,913 2/6*

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STEAL
RINSE

Got so lucky!

Wordle 1,913 4/6* 9/14/2026

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FOCUS → Preeminent first word second time! Plus, that terminal S is going to really KO a lot of bogus possibles…
SLATE → Well, that’s something. Do I try a second E, or an I? If I have an -ISE ending, I can guess at least one remaining WoFcon…
PRISE → And so… ugh. I could have had it in three.
RINSE

If only I had indulged my WoFcon obsession a little harder. Followup was 7/1066, then a mediocre 14/34 though it gave me a virtual tap-in for par. A bit tougher than it should have been given the letters involved. Scoredle goes off into the weeds a bit in the midgame, makes my third guess for its fourth, and finishes with a tap-in bogey.

Wordle 1,913 3/6

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CRANE
SNORE
RINSE

Wordle 1,913 3/6

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SCREW
STERN
RINSE

A dumb mistake at two actually led to a tap-in birdie. Funny how that works sometimes.

Crazy luck on my first word essentially the same as 4 greens.
Wordle 1,914 2/6*

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LEANT
DEALT

Wordle 1,914 4/6

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RATIO
SLATE
LEANT
DEALT

Wordle 1,914 4/6

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AUDIO
DRAPE
DEATH
DEALT

Wordle 1,914 3/6 — 2026-09-15 Tue
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STARE
DOILY
DEALT

Wordle 1,914 5/6*

\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D}\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 L}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}

Wordle 1914 2/6

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SLANT
DEALT

LEAPT had been used (Wordle 572). So had EXALT (#1068) which I didn’t see until afterward.

Wordle 1,914 4/6

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RATIO
NUDGE
DEATH
DEALT

Wordle 1,913 3/6

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YODEL
WIELD
DEALT

Wordle 1,914 2/6

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TRADE
DEALT

Wordle 1,914 5/6

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HEART
BEAST
MEANT
LEAPT
DEALT