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This answer may be GOOFY by name, but it's far from GOOFY by nature – because it presents an all-too-serious challenge. WordleBot says the current average score is 4.6, which would stand out as being vertiginously high if not for the fact that we've had Wordles with scores of 5.0, 4.7, 5.7 and 5.0 again just in the past two weeks.

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