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

Wordle 1,914 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
FEAST
DEALT

Wordle 1,915 4/6

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Wordle 1,914 2/6 — NYT Average 3.3

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SLATE
DEALT

dayum… I got Wordle in 2, two days in a row. I should play the lotto today…

My 16th Wordle in 2.

Wordle 1,914 3/6* 9/15/2026

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RINSE → Slow start, two WoFcons and an A and… don’t see a word with another vowel, so I’ll go with another consonant
PLEAT → Hmmm. I see one word right off the bat, so I’ll give it a go and see how many of those three letters I place
DEALT

Turns out it was all of them. This one may go as luck rather than skill; my followup was out of the top 120, and that third guess was 5/6 (and the last valid possible as well). Still happy with a birdie. Scoredle’s followup, largely an attempt to place the E, leaves it with 16 possibles (7 valid), but its next guess places that less-common first letter, and seals a tap-in par.

Wordle 1,914 2/6*

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STEAL
DEALT

Two 2’s in a row!

Wordle 1,914 2/6

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DRAFT
DEALT

A very fortunate opener gets me my 58th WiT, and 105th Sea of Orangey Greens. And it’s symmetrical. Fun day!

Wordle 1,915 4/6

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RATIO
SHINE
ISSUE
WISPY

Wordle 1,915 4/6 — 2026-09-16 Wed
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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
WISPY

Wordle 1,915 4/6 WEDNESDAY

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AUDIO
PRIME
NIPPY
WISPY

Wordle 1,915 4/6*

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\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y}

Wordle 1915 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
MUSKY
WISPY

Only other possibility at 4 was PISSY, which is certainly a common word, but you know the NYT ain’t gonna have it.

Wordle 1,915 5/6

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PIANO
BICEP
LIPID
WIMPY
WISPY

Wordle 1,915 3/6 — NYT Average 4.0

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SLATE
PSYCH
WISPY

Wordle 1,915 5/6*

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STEAL
BISON
RISKY
MISSY
WISPY

Wordle 1,915 4/6

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YODEL
AUNTY
RISKY
WISPY

Wordle 1,915 3/6

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HEART
SPOIL
WISPY

Wordle 1,915 5/6* 9/16/2026

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DEALT → Whiff. So this next word could be thought of as a good first word second, but I don’t think I’d necessarily consider it good as such as it is quite bogus - still, let’s try
NOIRS → a word that is probably only used around roulette wheels in France. Still, it gives me a great followup for placement of the S (and I can try that always-threatening terminal-Y vowel…)
SISSY → Good call on the Y, and though I wasted an S, I know there’s only one, and I placed the other letter as well. Looks like a consonant hunt from here; first one I try is
FISHY → No help there. I see a couple more with possibilities
WISPY

Guess ratings per Scoredle are 24/1840, 1/26, 2/4 and 2/3 for the solve. There were two bogus possibles after the third guess; in my stead, Scoredle would make the correct guess for par but miss on the guess for bogey. So a rather odd solve, but I do like the implied skill ratings. On its own, Scoredle suffers for its near-anagram followup; it makes the same placement guess on three, then - out of a trap of three possibles - guesses each of the wrong ones first, ending with a double-bogey six.

Wordle 1,916 5/6

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Wordle 1,915 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SILLY
WISPY

Wordle 1,915 4/6

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BRUSH
SLANT
POSEY
WISPY

I didn’t have a lot here, until I did.