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

Wordle 1,941 5/6*

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STEAL
BOWEL
NOVEL
MODEL
YODEL

Wordle 1941 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
YODEL

Now that’s more like it, campers! Feels good to get a 3 after my 6-4-5 streak of the past few days.

Went with the solution for the usual reason: because it was the possible solution that gave me the best chance of not doing worse than a 4. Other unused possibilities were BOWEL, JELLO, and YOKEL; there were also the very reusable MODEL (Wordle 12) and GOLEM (Wordle 87) in the gears.

Wordle 1,941 1/6

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YODEL

Tough act to follow! Congrats @kaylasdad99 !

Wordle 1,941 4/6* 10/12/2026

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UNCAP → Whiff. Sets up a nice first word second, though
STORE → L remains of the WoFcons, and that’s probably my vowel quota. I can rearrange the known vowels into a likely configuration and try L and two other consonants with
LOWED → Good pickup with the D! Not much left except
YODEL
MODEL
was also in the mix. Good thing I didn’t see it! My followup was not in the top 120 out of 3515 (though somehow its anagram was top of Scoredle’s list), but the third guess was a pretty solid 11/115 (and in the event turned out to be a better guess than Scoredle’s) and the clincher was 2/4. Scoredle’s guesses go the distance, but cover things well enough that there is no possibility of a loss after the third guess - just an unlucky endgame.

Wordle 1,942 6/6

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Wordle 1,941 6/6

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CRANE
HOIST
POLED
DOWEL
MODEL
YODEL

Back to this again.

Wordle 1,942 5/6

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RATIO
SHIRK
GIRLY
DINER
WIDER

Wordle 1,942 4/6 TUESDAY

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AUDIO
CIDER
RIDER
WIDER

Wordle 1,942 4/6*

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\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}
\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X}
\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 D}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}

Wordle 1,942 3/6

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DRAPE
CODER
WIDER

Wordle 1942 4/6

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SLANT
CHORE
DIVEY
WIDER

Could’ve also been EIDER, which I totally didn’t see, so I was a bit lucky there. RIDER had been used.

Congrats to @kaylasdad99 for getting his ace yesterday! I’m envious.

Wordle 1,942 X/6 — NYT Average 4.4

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SLATE
RECON
QUERY
EMBER
HIKER
WIPER

Damn. Been a while since I completely struck out. This might be my 2nd or 3rd time since first playing it ~1.5 years ago.

Wordle 1,942 4/6

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HEART
LOVER
MINER
WIDER

Wordle 1,943 3/6

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Wordle 1,942 4/6

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DOILY
TIMID
KINDA
WIDER

Wordle 1,942 5/6

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CRANE
HOIST
LIVER
WIPER
WIDER

Yes! Congratulations @kaylasdad99 !

A lucky guess to get this in 5.

Wordle 1,942 5/6 — 2026-10-13 Tue
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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH — the Wordle could be bider fired irked mired rebid redid rider wider; of these, previous Wordles have not been bider fired irked mired rebid redid wider; of these, the most likely Wordle(s) include fired irked wider
FIRED — the Wordle could be bider diver rider wider; of these, previous Wordles have not been bider wider
WIDER — A lucky guess to get this in 5

Ta. It’s really just my strategy, which only occasionally pays off.

Wordle 1,942 3/6* 10/13/2026

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YODEL → From one perspective, good start! From another, looks like a trap in the making. End letter likely to be an R (possibly N), second likely to be a vowel (though UNDER is possible) with four possibles (second E, A, I, U). For the first letter? Let’s try a W..
WADER → Wow, lucky.
WIDER

That could have gone sideways in a hurry. Carryover cut it to 79, with 18 (?) valid guesses, but my followup left just one. A couple possibles ended with T, which I didn’t anticipate. Scoredle’s followup leaves seven, with four valid - but it has the good fortune of the answer being its first option, so we both made birdie today.

Wordle 1,942 4/6*

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STEAL
DEIGN
FIXED
WIDER