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

Wordle 1,931 4/6*

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Wordle 1,931 3/6 — 2026-10-02 Fri
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STARE
DOILY
USURY

Wordle 1931 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
USURY

The only other possibility was USURP (Wordle 466).

Wordle 1,931 3/6

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HEART
POURS
USURY

Wordle 1,932 4/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: :shamrock: Ai assisted :man_shrugging: :kangaroo:

Wordle 1,931 4/6

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YODEL
HARPY
RISKY
USURY

Wordle 1,931 4/6*

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STEAL
BISON
PSYCH
USURY

Wordle 1,931 4/6* 10/2/2026

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RITZY → That’s not a bad start, though not as likely to produce a two as yesterday. I’ll be a little less OCD about the WoFcons than my usual, today, and I’ll try to place that R next with
FERRY → Could have tried LORRY, I guess, with a WoFcon. I considered trying U next with USURY, but decided I should try both A & O first with
HOARY → I guess it’s time to try
USURY
UPDRY
(?) was the other possibility. My Scoredle guess scores are 8/199, 5/26 and, believe it or not, 2/2 {!} for the win. Scoredle slips back a guess because it doesn’t double up on vowels with one of the intermediate guesses, and doesn’t recover before putting up a bogey.

Wordle 1,931 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SLURP
USURY

Wordle 1,931 4/6

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DREAM
ROUST
SPURN
USURY

Not often we see a repeated U.

Wordle 1,932 3/6*

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Sea of Greens

LEANT
PERSE
PEEVE

Not often we see a triple letter

Wordle 1,932 4/6

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RATIO
LUNES
WEDGE
PEEVE

Wordle 1,932 4/6 SATURDAY

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AUDIO
SEELY
BEECH
PEEVE could also have been REEVE

Wordle 1,932 5/6*

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\bbox[silver,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt V}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}

Wordle 1,932 4/6 — 2026-10-03 Sat
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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
PEEVE — it could also have been pewee, neither of which had already been a Wordle

Wordle 1,932 4/6

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YODEL
URINE
PASTE
PEEVE

Wordle 1,932 4/6

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STONE
FLAIR
PLUMB
PEEVE

Wordle 1,932 4/6*

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STEAL
ENEMY
CREEK
PEEVE

Wordle 1,932 6/6* 10/3/2026

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USURY → Whiff, kinda figured, wasted U, oh well, follow up practically guesses itself
LEANT → A word with no WoFcons. OK, be nice to try an O here, but I can see a good guess with an I
WEIGH → No help there. Should I try an O, or a second E? I see one word with the latter
FEMME → The hunch was right but nothing else was. Aw, but now I see a word that would have worked for this last one, with both O and a second E, so
PEKOE → Whew. Finally got a consonant. And no O. Do I have a third E? Can’t see much else, so let’s give it go and pray to the Wordle gods
PEEVE

So that was quite a puzzle. I should have tried earlier to get a repeat vowel; of the top 10 of my third guess possibles, only two didn’t have a pair of the vowel - and my guess was one of them. I was down to two valid possibles after the fourth guess, and sure enough I put them in the wrong order. Scoredle has it worse, though - it ends up with the same set of three words that I have for the final guess, but with apparently no way to discriminate between valid and bogus, it goes for one of the bogus guesses - and takes the loss.

Wordle 1,932 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
PLUME - okay, so it’s all 'e’s, which only leaves
PEEVE