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

Wordle 1,933 5/6

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Wordle 1,932 5/6

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HEART
BONED
MESSY
TEPEE
PEEVE

Wordle 1,932 4/6 — NYT Average 4.4

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SLATE
PRONE
PIECE
PEEVE

My 61st Sea of Greens

Wordle 1,933 3/6

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RATIO
SHALE
SHACK

Wordle 1,933 2/6

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Wordle 1,933 5/6*

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Yesterday:

Wordle 1932 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
FUDGE
PEEVE

Only alternatives I could see were PIXIE (Wordle 569) and EBIKE which is starting to become a word without the hyphen but is still pretty new. Doubt that it would have been on Wardle’s list five years ago.

Today:

Wordle 1933 3/6

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SLANT
SCAMP
SHACK

Been away on vacation the last couple weeks, haven’t been posting my Wordles regularly.

Wordle 1,933 4/6

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SPARE
STAIN
SMACK
SHACK

Wordle 1,933 4/6 — 2026-10-04 Sun
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STARE — the Wordle could be scald scalp scamp shack shady shaky shall shank shawl slack slain slang slash smack small smash smack snafu snail snaky soapy spacy spain spank spasm spawn spazz swack swail swami swamp swamy swank swash; way too many options here
DOILY
PUNCH
SHACK

Wordle 1,933 4/6*

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STEAL
SPAWN
SHARK
SHACK

Wordle 1,933 3/6 — NYT Average 3.3

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SLATE
SPARK
SHACK

62nd Sea of Greens

Wordle 1,933 4/6

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YODEL
ASTIR
SCUBA
SHACK

Wordle 1,933 5/6

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HEART
SHADY
SHALL
SHANK
SHACK

Wordle 1,933 4/6* 10/4/2026

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PEEVE → Two wasted Es. Hope that doesn’t come back to haunt me. Need both WoFcon and vowels; I could go ROAST but I think I’ll tilt slightly toward the vowels instead right now
ROYAL → Well, that’s something. Could try a placement play with SAUNA, but I’d like to finish the WoFcons and the I is a bit more important than the U, so instead I’ll go with
STAIN → Good choice to KO the T, else it would have been hanging over me. Don’t see many places for another vowel, so I’ll try
SHACK
SMACK
would have been a better choice, as it would have avoided a possible six - still, didn’t was to fall victim to analysis paralysis. Scorede would have preferred the third guess I considered and rejected - indeed, my actual third guess wasn’t in the top 120, although two of its anagrams were in the top 5 (how does that happen?) Scoredle takes a bogey; it spends its third guess on placing the consonant it found with the second, then just misses the solution (which was 3/52) with its par putt, settling for a five.

Wordle 1,933 3/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SHACK

Wordle 1,934 3/6

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Wordle 1,934 5/6

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RATIO
SHOAL
HAVOC
POACH
MOCHA

Stupid mistake on third guess.

Wordle 1,934 4/6 Monday

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AUDIO
SOAPY
MORAL
MOCHA

Wordle 1,934 4/6 — 2026-10-05 Mon
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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
MOCHA

Wordle 1,934 4/6*

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