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

Wordle 1,956 5/6

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Wordle 1,955 6/6

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CRANE
HOIST - UGH
QUELL - double ‘ugh’
BEEFY
WEEDY
GEEKY

Wordle 1,955 5/6

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TRIAL
SCONE
EMBED
WEEPY
GEEKY

Quite the slog today.

Wordle 1,955 4/6* 10/26/2026

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DRESS → A wasted S and a slow start, and I can’t check all the remaining WoFcons with my next guess. Anything else wrong? No? OK, I"ll try
GLEAN → Good luck with the G! T is still around, let’s see wither I
GOETH → Nothing else. U and I still out there, but I think a second E or terminal Y are more likely - let’s try them both
GEEKY

That was a nice way to end it, just as I was getting worried about a possible loss. Ironically enough, my followup was 6/252, then 2/3 and the final guess was a true tap-in. So, pretty skillful, I guess? Scoredle finishes with a bogey; its “strategy” wasn’t far off of mine, but it ended up much less fortunate with word choice, and lost a turn before it decided to try a terminal Y.

Wordle 1,955 5/6 — 2026-10-26 Mon
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SPARE
DOILY
PUNCH
BEEFY
GEEKY

Wordle 1,956 4/6

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RATIO
LINGO
DINGO
BINGO

Wordle 1,956 2/6 TUESDAY

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AUDIO
BINGO

Whoot!

Wordle 1,956 4/6*

\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[yellow,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 W}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O}

Wordle 1,956 4/6 — 2026-10-27 Tue
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SPARE
DOILY
PUNCH
BINGO

Wordle 1,956 3/6

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DOILY
PITON
BINGO

Wordle 1956 3/6

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SLANT
CHORE
BINGO

Can’t say I didn’t have this solution on my bingo card!

Wordle 1,956 5/6

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TRAIN
SPINE
WINDY
FINCH
BINGO

Wordle 1,956 5/6

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HEART
SPOIL
IDIOM
PINTO
BINGO

Wordle 1,956 4/6 — NYT Average 4.0

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SLATE
PROUD
COMBO
BINGO

Wordle 1,956 4/6

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FAVOR
STOLE
MOUND
BINGO

“Hmmm, maybe the O goes at the end.” BINGO!

Wordle 1,956 3/6*

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STEAL
DROWN
BINGO

Wordle 1,956 X/6* 10/27/2026

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GEEKY → Wasted an E, but picked up a rarer consonant. Let’s try two vowels and ditto WoFcons, see what we can get with
ARGON → Not bad, but need to get some placed. I tried some thought-to-be bogus words, and was a bit surprised when one with two WoFcons hit
STONG → and wasn’t a lot of help. So I shifted off the WoFcons and onto finding a vowel, and the World Series made me think of
FUNGO → which was less help than I wanted, at this stage. So that second letter has to be an I (or another O - less likely, barring MONGO (only pawn in game of Wordle)) but I did see the slangy and WoFcon-bearing
LINGO → and with one guess left, I have B, D and J to choose from. I think I’ll try the “ate my baby” guess rather than the “start a war” or “right on!” guesses
DINGO
Scoredle also claimed a P
-word there, but I’m having none of it. I had some really bad guesses today - followup was out of the top 120, third was 36/41, fourth 12/14, fifth a respectable 3/9 but by that time it was too late to cut the possible set down to a reasonable cardinality. Scoredle finishes it in 3, to add AI insult to streak-busting injury. Ah well, tomorrow is another day.

Wordle 1,956 4/6

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CRANE
HOIST
PINON
BINGO

Wordle 1,957 3/6

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