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

Wordle 1,938 4/6

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YODEL
NITRO
OSCAR
MAJOR

Wordle 1,938 6/6

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CRANE
HOIST
RAZOR
FAVOR
LABOR
MAJOR

Cripes, another six.

Wordle 1,938 5/6

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SNARL
CATER
RADAR
MAYOR
MAJOR

I took a big swing by doubling up on two already-placed letters at three. It did not pay off; I should have gone to the more likely -OR ending at that point.
Still, this one seems to be giving a lot of people a lot at trouble. Not too mad about the bogey.

Wordle 1938 6/6

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SLANT
CHORE
VAPOR
RAZOR
MAYOR
MAJOR

My streak of 107 straight games without a 5, 6, or loss comes to an ignominious end. Somehow I thought I saw MAYOR with a Wordle number in the first 100 games, well within the reusable zone, otherwise I wouldn’t have played it at all. It had actually been Wordle 1011. Otherwise this would have been a straightforward 5: a choice at 4 between unused RAZOR or a reuse of Wordle 20, MAJOR, and lose the coin toss. I coulda dealt with that.

Wordle 1,938 5/6* 10/9/2026

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STREW → Near-whiff, and with three WoFcons gone, I can concentrate on vowels. I had hopes for a word with one WoFcon, but settled for
HOARY → which was productive. I think I’m full up on vowels, and since I can’t see a word with the known letters plus L & R, I’ll try one of them
RADON → Only one place left for that R to go. And I’ve got a word to try that uses an L, too
LABOR → At least I’ve used a lot of letters, because I have two spots to fill and only two guesses left. Plus, I know there isn’t a second R. Looking through the remaining letters leads me to
MAJOR
VAPOR and FAVOR
were also out there, and Scoredle had by guess #5 doped out the right way to try the remaining words to ensure a win by 6 - but I had not. I got very lucky. From the start, Scoredle finishes in 6, but could have gone into that final frame with only a 1-in-4 chance of eking out a win. Tough puzzle today.

Wordle 1,939 5/6

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RATIO
LUNES
HUMPY
DUMPY
BUMPY

Could have done better with a better guess on three.

Wordle 1,939 5/6 SATURDAY

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AUDIO
QUERY
FUZZY
LUCKY
BUMPY

Sea o’Greens

Wordle 1,939 4/6 — 2026-10-10 Sat
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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH — the Wordle could be bumpy guppy jumpy yuppy; of these, previous Wordles have not been bumpy yuppy; letters to eliminate are B
BUMPY

Wordle 1,939 3/6*

\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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y}

Lucky 2nd guess

Wordle 1,939 4/6

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NOISE
QUART
LUCKY
BUMPY

Sea of Greens #164

Wordle 1,939 5/6

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YODEL
AUNTY
FUSSY
JUICY
BUMPY

Wordle 1,939 4/6 — NYT Average 4.4

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SLATE
PROUD
GUPPY
BUMPY

Wordle 1,939 3/6*

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STEAL
DROWN
BUMPY

A sea of green happens to be the right answer! Lucky duck.

Wordle 1,939 5/6* 10/10/2026

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MAJOR → Nice carryover letter. With no vowels, I wanted to hit them hard, but hit on a word that tried the same letter back in the same place
MITEY → At least it was mostly productive. But now, I really want to place the M, and it looks like I’ve got a U in there as well (I’m no
DUMMY → and it’s all consonant guesses from here on in, I’ll try
LUMPY → or maybe it is
BUMPY

Some bumbling, but it did come together in the end. After my erroneous followup guess, my guesses matched Scoredle’s, so I’ve got that going for me. Technically my putt was 1-in-3 but the other two were bogus. Scoredle matches my bogey, not wasting its followup but instead having another possible in the set when it hits the trap, where it goes the distance - easy come, easy go.

Wordle 1,940 3/6

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Wordle 1,939 6/6

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HEART
SPOIL
PUNKY
CUPPY
DUMPY
BUMPY

Wordle 1,939 5/6

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CRANE - ouch
HOIST - double ouch
PULLY
GUPPY
BUMPY

Well, at least it wasn’t another six.

Wordle 1939 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
BUMPY

Could’ve also been JUMPY.

Sea of greens? Well, at least it stopped being a Sea of Blanks.

Wordle 1,939 3/6

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REIGN
SALTY
BUMPY

A completely unexpected and mostly unearned birdie. I was just trying to throw as many letters out there as possible.
And Sea of Greens #110.

This one sucked. I’m not admitting to anything :wink: