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

Wordle 1,922 4/6* 9/23/2026

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STOKE → Useful start. For some reason I didn’t see TONAL here, but it turns out that an anagram is also a bogus Wordle word
NOTAL → I supposed I could have tried to place the T with TOTAL, but it turned out to be useful that I eliminated the N. I thought about ROUGH here, but noticed I hadn’t tried the T in first, so
TOUGH → Figured I’d bite the vowel bullet and go with no I, and with the H there no terminal Y, so there’s a -TH ending and I know where an R goes, and then I flashed back to the days of postfix notation and tried
FORTH
WORTH
was also possible (along with three bogus possibles), giving me a 50-50 shot at a par. Scoredle really preferred the valid anagram for my followup (10 vs. 94/294) and the third guess was 9/53. Scoredle’s preferred followup doubles up on both of the known letters; after both letters are placed (and shown to be unique), its next word is one letter away from the solution (which, by the way, is second out of the 35 possibles) and leaves it with a tap-in par.

Wordle 1,922 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
WORTH
FORTH

Wordle 1,922 5/6

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STORM
ROTOR
TORCH
NORTH
FORTH

Funnily enough, the word generator gave me STORY yesterday and STORM today. Both yielded three letters, but alas, today’s were unplaced, and reluctant to be wrangled into position.

WORTH would have gotten me a six, but I was not in danger of failing.

Wordle 1,923 4/6 THURSDAY

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AUDIO
PERKY
TESTY
MESSY

Connections
Puzzle #1201
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Sub-30-seconds.

Wordle 1,923 4/6

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RATIO
LUNES
SEEDY
MESSY

Wordle 1,923 3/6*

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

Wrong thread …

Wordle 1,923 4/6 — 2026-09-24 Thu
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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
MESSY

Gah, yes.

Wordle 1,923 4/6

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YODEL
WEEPY
SEAMY
MESSY

Wordle 1,923 3/6 — NYT Average 3.6

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SLATE
RESIN
MESSY

Wordle 1,923 3/6*

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STEAL
COPSE
MESSY

Wordle 1,923 4/6

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HEART
PEONY
LEGGY
MESSY

Wordle 1,924 3/6

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Wordle 1,923 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
GUESS
MESSY

Wordle 1,923 4/6* 9/24/2026

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FORTH → Whiff. E, A, L, N, S, shuffle up and try
LEANS → Not bad. I’ll try to place the S, try an I, I can do those with
SEISM → Hmm, two Ses, one placed. And an M. Double up the S, M to the front, try terminal Y, what do we have?
MESSY

Pretty fun puzzle today (for me anyway). My followup was in the top 120, despite being an anagram of Scoredle’s, then my third guess was 3/36 but was the first in Scoredle’s list to include the key letter that made the next guess a tap-in. Scoredle has bad luck today; its followup only cuts the possible set down to 58, then it doubles up on the wrong known letter (ending up with three possibles) and then has to try all of them to get a double-bogey finish.

Wordle 1923 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
MESSY

Could’ve also been DEISM. PESKY (Wordle 996) and GUESS (1636) had been used and were unlikely candidates for reuse; and the possibility of YIPES and/or YIKES (which didn’t even cross my mind until seeing them on Scoredle afterwards) being on the solutions list seems kinda iffy to me.

Wordle 1,923 4/6

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STING
LASER
PESKY
MESSY

Third day in a row I got a word beginning in ST from the word generator. Just an unplaced S this time, but good progress after that.

Wordle 1,924 3/6

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RATIO
SHONE
COPSE

Barely made it.

Wordle 1,924 6/6 — 2026-09-25 Fri
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STARE
DOILY — the Wordle could be goose house moose mouse noose posse; letters to eliminate are G H U M P; can try sleuth word(s) humps?
NOOSE
HUMPS
POSSE
COPSE