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

[SunUp]

Wordle 1,967 5/6* 11/7/2026

DRECK → Not bad. Let’s throw in another vowel and two WoFcons, shall we?
TRIES → Not bad again. This time I’ll abandon consonants and check the remaining common vowels
ORATE → Wow. Looks a bit trappish. Glad my carryover checked C, and I also tried I early. OK, if we ban the sale of shredded cheese, we can Make America
GRATE → Again. But we cannot win Wordle with a par. I see P, anything else?
PRATE
FRATE is for some reason a word that Scoredle prefers over the solution, hence my guesses scoring 73/139, then 2/10, 1/5 and 2/4 (behind that word) for the win. Scoredle’s algorithm from the start falls directly into the trap, and ends up losing. From my carryover, Scoredle does pull out a double-bogey win, again trying that bogus word before the actual solution. What’s up with that, Scoredle?

[RTFirefly]

Wordle 1967 6/6

SLANT
ORATE
CRATE
GRATE
IRATE
PRATE

I had a list of unused words for this situation after 1, and PRATE was on it, but somehow I overlooked it. So I fell into the same trap that everyone else was in, and after 5, I just mentally tried every still-legal letter in the alphabet for the first letter, until finally I got to P.

At least I did better than Scoredle, which got X/6.

[MacDoc]

Wordle 1,968 3/6

no Ai

[psychobunny]

Wordle 1,968 4/6

RATIO
TRICK
DIRTY
FIRST

[MrDibble]

Wordle 1,968 5/6

AUDIO
PRIME
RINGY
BIRTH
FIRST

[Bullitt]

Wordle 1,968 4/6 — 2026-11-08 Sun




STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
FIRST

[pjd]

Wordle 1,968 3/6*

\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G}\bbox[yellow,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}
\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S}\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T}

I’ve been having a lot of lucky second guesses recently…

[kaylasdad99]

Wordle 1,968 4/6

DOILY
INSET
SPRIT
FIRST

[Shoeless]

Wordle 1,968 3/6

AUDIO
SPIRE
FIRST

[MacDoc]

Wordle 1,969 2/6

no Ai

[Rebo]

Wordle 1,968 3/6*

STEAL
MISTY
FIRST

[cmyk]

Wordle 1,968 3/6 — NYT Average 3.3

SLATE
TRIST
FIRST

[SunUp]

Wordle 1,968 3/6* 11/8/2026

PRATE → Can follow up with a new WoFcon, plus two more vowels
ROUST → So the R must be in the middle, thus it’s not TRYST and the vowel is an I, so the F must go in
FIRST

For a mediocre 53/103 followup, it left a pure tap-in birdie. Scoredle’s followup, an anagram of my own, left it with three possibles, and the one that can differentiate between the other two was unfortunately not the answer, so Scoredle settles for a tap-in par.

[Wheelz]

Wordle 1,968 2/6

COAST
FIRST

Hitting the -ST ending and eliminating O and A narrowed the possibilities considerably, but I still counted 13 legit choices. I went with the (ahem!) FIRST one I saw, and got lucky.

[BobLibDem]

Wordle 1,968 4/6

HEART
GROUT
SPRIT
FIRST

[Chefguy]

Wordle 1,968 3/6

CRANE
HOIST
FIRST

[MrDibble]

Wordle 1,969 3/6 MONDAY

AUDIO
SOAPY
LOAMY

[psychobunny]

Wordle 1,969 4/6

RATIO
SHOAL
ALLOW
LOAMY