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

Wordle 1,943 4/6

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RATIO
LUNES
SHYLY
PSYCH

Not a real word.

Wordle 1,943 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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H}

Wordle 1,943 3/6 WEDNESDAY

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AUDIO
SERVE
PSYCH

Wordle 1,943 4/6 — 2026-10-13 Wed
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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
PSYCH

Wordle 1,943 4/6

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REACT
BLOCK
PINCH
PSYCH

Sea of Greens #165

Wordle 1,943 4/6

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DOILY
YENTA
MYRRH
PSYCH

Wordle 1,943 4/6

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MINOR
LEAST
HUSKY
PSYCH

Not a bad result, considering the first two.

I’ve been playing but not posting lately, as it’s a busy week. But I wanted to take a moment to formally object to WIDER. Adding an R to create a comparative is akin to adding an S to create a plural. NYT should be better than that. (I did solve it in 5, for the record.)

Rant over.

Wordle 1,943 3/6

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HEART
SHINY
PSYCH

Wordle 1,943 3/6 — NYT Average 3.7

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SLATE
HUSKY
PSYCH

Made the top 30% of players today and beat the bot.

Wordle 1,943 3/6*

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STEAL
RISKY
PSYCH

Wordle 1,943 4/6* 10/14/2026

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WIDER → Whiff. 3 outta 4 remaining WoFcons, plus A & O makes
TONAL → a double whiff. S is still out there. I can try it and both remaining vowels with
HUSKY → Only Y (or Ys)? Man. I figured the Y in the middle, but it still took me some thinking before a filled a “word” around it
PSYCH

Very slangy. Follow up not in the top 120, then third guess 2/155 and, in the event, a better guess than the top one (which had a different intial letter but was otherwise the same). That left a virtual tap-in for par. Scoredle takes a different route but finishes with that same par, on a true tap-in (and with no double-whiff to start).

Wordle 1,943 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
SHUCK
PSYCH

Wordle 1,944 4/6

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:green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square::green_square: :face_with_spiral_eyes: Ai assisted :person_shrugging: :kangaroo:

Wordle 1943 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
PSYCH

I had the devil of a time after 2 finding any word that would work. Turned out there was just the one.

Thursday
Wordle 1,944 4/6*

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LEANT
SNORE
HINGE
DUNCE

Wordle 1,944 3/6

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RATIO
LUNES
DUNCE

Wordle 1,944 3/6 THURSDAY

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AUDIO
DUSTY
DUNCE

Wordle 1,944 3/6*

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\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E}

Wordle 1,944 4/6 — 2026-10-14 Thu
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STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
DUNCE

Sea of Greens #88.

Wordle 1,944 4/6

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STARE
POUND
UNDUE
DUNCE