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#1816 TUE 06/09/2026
Spoilers OK here. For today’s puzzle, post your comments, replies, wins, rants, or any observation. Feel free to paste in your green + yellow box solution share, Scoredle, or WordleBot results.
42 responses to “#1816 TUE 06/09/2026”
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Forgot to post this yesterday.
Wordle 1,816 4/6*
β¬π¨β¬β¬β¬ SAUCE 202
π¨β¬β¬π©β¬ ADORN 2
β¬β¬π©π©β¬ TIARA 1
π©π©π©π©π© WHARFWordleBot
Skill 97/99
Luck 41/99 -
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Wordle 1,816 3/6
β¬π¨β¬β¬β¬PRIDE
β¬π©π©π©β¬SHARK
π©π©π©π©π©WHARF -
Wordle 1,816 4/6*
β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬
π¨β¬β¬β¬π¨
β¬π¨π©β¬β¬
π©π©π©π©π©WordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 42/99
NYT AVG. 3.8STILE
AMOUR
DRANK
WHARFI didnβt quite make the average, but CHARY was also available, so at least I won that coin toss!
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Wordle 1,816 3/6
β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ STEAL 228
β¬β¬β¬π¨π¨ MOCHA 12
π©π©π©π©π©2nd day in a row that 2nd guess MOCHA helped me to result in 3, although it made yesterdayβs MAFIA a lot more obvious with the M & A placement.
Today, it showed 12 remaining but I could only think of 3 unused words (HARPY, PARCH and WHARF), and simply got lucky with the 1 out of 3 guess. -
Wordle 1,816 3/6
π¨β¬β¬β¬π¨
β¬π¨π©β¬β¬
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ASTER
BRAIL
WHARF
Happy to get the A placed in the second word. ESP did the rest. I really feel it most when I get it in 2. (Twilight zone music) -
On Donald Duck Day:
The University of Oregon’s mascot for over half a century was simply Donald Duck. Use of the character’s likeness was protected by a handshake approval deal with Walt Disney himself.
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Wordle 1,816 4/6
β¬β¬β¬π¦β¬
β¬β¬β¬β¬π¦
β¬π¦π§β¬β¬
π§π§π§π§π§STEAL & MINOR left 19 possible, but only 5 unused: CRACK, FRAUD, HARPY, WHARF, WRACK. I chose CRACK, because it would reveal the correct answer if wrong.
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Wordle 1,816 4/6*
β¬π¨β¬π¨β¬ TREAD
π¨π¨β¬π©β¬ FAIRY
β¬β¬π©π©π© SNARF
π©π©π©π©π© WHARF[Jill Takes a Tumble]
Ugh, I’m an idiot. I knew it wouldn’t be SNARF. I wasted that early F.
Sometimes my mind gets locked into a single vowel sound and can’t get past it.
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Snarf led you to wharf. Your brain was simply sending you a signal.
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Wordle 1,816 3/6
π¨β¬π©β¬β¬ ROATE
π©π¨π©β¬β¬ WRACK
π©π©π©π©π© WHARFROATE brings it down 12 words.
There are a lot of C, K, Wβs in the remaining words; so, WRACK is the optimal choice here.
WRACK left only one answer!
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A musketeerβs hat with a feather!-
Nice hat!
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Could be Yankee Doodle’s feather.
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Wordle 1,816 2/6
β¬β¬π©π©β¬ Stare
π©π©π©π©π© WharfStare came through for me today. It led to 2 words not on the PUL: Ovary and Wharf, plus a few words from β21 and β22 on the PUL. Wharf would rule in/out 2 of those in case today was a Repeat.
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Awesome!
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Good job Elaine!
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WordleBot 1816 4/6
β¬β¬π©β¬β¬ SCALP 91 wl
β¬β¬π©β¬β¬ BL*ANK 53
β¬π¨π©β¬β¬ GRAZE 10
π©π©π©π©π© WHARFβ¨β¨*Error with Lβ¨
Still figuring out the exclude filter. -
Wordle 1,816 4/6
π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬ adieu
β¬β¬π©β¬β¬ toast
β¬π¨π©β¬β¬ crack
π©π©π©π©π© wharf -
π€ surf’s up, my dudes!!! rode the fab ffdf (with the sweet new excludes feature) practically in to the beach today! ππββοΈ cowabunga!
Wordle 1,816 4/6*
β¬π¨β¬β¬β¬ creek
β¬π¨β¬π©β¬ dairy
β¬π¨π©π©β¬ swarm
π©π©π©π©π© wharf-
Bitchinβ
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Cue the music: da-da-da-dada-dadaβ¦
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Wordle 1,816 3/6
β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ OPINE
π¨π¨π©β¬β¬ FRAUD
π©π©π©π©π© WHARFFinally guessed in 3.
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Wordle 1,816 4/6
β¬π¨β¬β¬π¨ Saner
β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ Imply
β¬π¨π©β¬β¬ Crack
π©π©π©π©π© WharfFor the third word, I should have tried wrack instead of crack.
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Glenda- agree about the floating A.
Tried CAROB again. It will hit one of these times!Wordle 1,816 4/6*
β¬β¬β¬π¨β¬ STEAL
β¬π¨π¨β¬β¬ CAROB
β¬π¨π©β¬β¬ DRANK
π©π©π©π©π© WHARFWordleBot
Skill 95/99
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Wordle 1,816 3/6
β¬π¨π©β¬β¬ CRANE
β¬β¬β¬β¬β¬ PIOUS
π©π©π©π©π© WHARFNo deep thought, just looked at one and two, and three jumped out as the answer, and not on PU. Can someone explain the ESP factor in Wordle?!??
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Welcome to the After Party Sheila!
Wordle ESP is when thousands of people (millions?) are focused on a word and your brain picks up the signal. It’s like peeking into other brains. Wordletuition.
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This topic always reminds me of this scene talking about reincarnation and crossword puzzles from Waking Life:
(It’s pretty artsy, but gets to the point and wraps up in 2 minutes.)
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Wordle 1,816 3/6*
π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬ ROUET 132 wl
π¨π¨β¬π©β¬ FAIRY 4 wl
π©π©π©π©π© WHARFWordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 57/99
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sUmmer of U-words from Professor Mike – jUne 9; ROUET sponsored by MaryGtheKnitter (Shorewood, WI)After the floating R provided and 3 vowels grayed out in ROUET, I wanted an *AIRY word. I chose FAIRY, figuring that it would not have been a solution because of its NSFW(ordle) meaning. The four words left were: DWARF (PU), SCARF (PU), SNARF (I did not think of this one) and WHARF.
Good βοΈ/π to all! -
π¨π¨β¬β¬β¬ AROSE
β¬π©π©π©β¬ CHART
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So I beat Scordle today with a lucky line 2. Puzzled for a good while before the ship docked. Afterwards, Scordle told me line 2 only left two possibilities – of which the other one is not in my vocabulary! -
mornin’ π€π
Wordle 1,816 3/6
β¬β¬β¬β¬π¨ SEPIA (Oh boy does that single A. leave things wide open !!)
π¨π¨π©β¬β¬ FRAUD (wanted to use AU and got lucky – gut said not AUNTY)
π©π©π©π©π© https://www.newzealand.com/nz/feature/tolaga-bay-wharf/-
Hmm. A FELON could be convicted of FRAUD! π€₯ π
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A replay of yesterday, but this time it worked! Wow.
Scoredle 2/6*
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π¨β¬β¬β¬β¬ FELON (161)
π©π©π©π©π© WHARF-
Yes! That F. was better than my floating A.
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Got it in 2, nice!
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Congrats!
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Well Done!
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Proper nouns shouldnβt be used !
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Welcome to the After Party John! Thanks for posting!
So I just learned the word mafia far pre-dates *the* Mafia.
Kind of like The Ducks. π
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Thatβs interesting. I did not know that.
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This is what Gemini had to say.
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Before it ever referred to organized crime, the word Mafia had nothing to do with gangsters, blood oaths, or syndicates. In its original context, it described a specific attitude, a social trait, and ironically, high quality. The true history of the word is a mix of linguistic evolution, cultural pride, and a popular 19th-century theater production.1. The Original Cultural Meaning: “Swagger” and PrideLong before it became a proper noun, the root word was the 19th-century Sicilian adjective mafiusu (or mafioso in standard Italian). If you called a Sicilian man mafiusu in the early 1800s, you were paying him a compliment. It didn’t mean he was a criminal; it meant he possessed bravado, swagger, independence, and fearlessness. It described a proud man who wouldn’t let himself be pushed around by authorities or foreign rulers. The word was so versatile that its meaning shifted entirely based on the subject:Applied to a person: It meant someone was bold, enterprising, and fiercely self-reliant. Applied to a woman (mafiusa): It meant she was beautiful, elegant, or attractive. Applied to an object: You could describe an excellent piece of property or a fine horse as un cavallo mafiosoβmeaning it was of superior quality. 2. The Arabic RootsWhy did the word carry this sense of refuge, boldness, and pride? Most linguists trace it back to the era when Sicily was an Islamic emirate (from 827 to 1091 AD). While the exact root is debated, the most likely Arabic origins include:MahyΔαΉ£ (Ω ΩΩΨ§Ψ΅): Meaning “aggressive boasting” or “bragging”βthe direct ancestor of “swagger.” MuΚΏΔfΔ (Ω ΨΉΨ§ΩΩ): Meaning “safety” or “protection.” MaαΈ₯fil or MafyaΚΎ (Ω ΩΩΨ‘): Meaning a “place of shade” or “refuge.” When foreign rulers took over Sicily, locals who fled to the caves and hills for protection from persecution were said to be seeking refuge in the mafie (caves/places of shade). Over centuries, the people who lived by this code of self-preservation and distrust of official laws became the embodiment of the word.3. How the Meaning Shifted to CriminalityThe transition from an attitude of “bold independence” to “organized crime” happened rapidly in the 1860s, triggered by a massive hit on the Sicilian stage.In 1863, a play titled I Mafiusi di la Vicaria (The Mafiosi of the Vicaria Prison) debuted in Palermo. The play was about a gang of inmates who formed a tight-knit group with a strict hierarchy, initiation rituals, and a code of honor. They used their collective power to control the other prisoners. The play was an absolute phenomenon, touring all across Italy. Even though the actual word “mafia” was barely mentioned in the text, the title forever linked the Sicilian concept of mafiusu (boldness/bravado) with organized criminal syndicates in the public consciousness. By 1865, Italian law enforcement and foreign journalists began officially using the term “Mafia” to describe the secret criminal societies operating on the island. The secret societies themselves, however, didn’t use the termβthey called their network Cosa Nostra (“Our Thing”). The Acronym Myth: You might sometimes hear that MAFIA stands for an Italian revolutionary slogan, such as “Morte Alla Francia Italia Anela” (Death to France is Italy’s Cry) from the 13th century. While it makes for a dramatic story, historians agree this is a completely fictional, back-formed acronym created long after the word was already famous. -
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