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#1870 SUN 08/02/2026
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.
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Wordle 1,870 3/6
🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨 ALINE
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 VENAL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PENAL
Grrr…
That’s more like it.
Wordle 1,870 2/6*
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ LAPIS 18
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PENAL
WordleBot
Skill 83/99
Luck 92/99
Oh my gosh I hope you’re playing the lottery! Great odds for weeks now.
Kim is back!
Correction: I referred to “begun” as the past tense of begin, and then remembered that began is the past tense of begin. Begun is the present participle and needs a helping verb such as “have” in the famous quote by John Paul Jones, Revolutionary War hero: “I have not yet begun to fight.” Our 4 daughters like to call me “The Grammar Witch,” but doesn’t everyone want a private iMessage to let them know the grammatical error/s in their text messages? 😃
I always enjoy things like this being pointed out!
I would not like that, because 99% of the time it’s auto correct that screwed up my message
Wordle 1,870 2/6
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 Crane
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Penal
I went with the old standby Crane which gave me 3 letters in the wrong position. This led to 4 possible answers: Apnea, Began, Oaken, Penal, plus one possible Repeat from 2021: Panel. My instinct was to guess Began, a nice common word to give us a break! Then I saw that the past tense Begun was an answer in April of this year. Penal had the highest letter by position score of the 4 words not on the PUL and would rule in/out the other 3 words and also Panel, the possible Repeat from ‘21. I was surprised but happy to join the others who got a score of 2 today. 🙂
Way to go!
Nice.
It’s also another word starting with “P” to go with “PURSE”. This is why I tried “PLUSH” yesterday, but it wasn’t to be.
Wordle 1,870 2/6
⬛⬛🟦🟧🟧
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
STEAL left 10 possible. 7 were used, some quite old. This left a delightful trio: FECAL, PENAL, RENAL. I guessed well.
Well done!
Wordle bot told me 11 remained after STEAL. Why do you think you often get a different count than me using the same start word?
Not my best effort.
Wordle 1,870 5/6*
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 STILE
🟨🟩🟨⬛⬛ LEAFY
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 DECAL
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 RENAL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PENAL
WordleBot
Skill 86/99
Luck 45/99
NYT AVG. 3.6
I knew LEAFY had been used, but I thought it was worth using for letters and/or patterns.
DECAL was a flat-out mistake. I forgot to check its usage history; it had a very high number. 😖
Lost a coin toss with RENAL before PENAL.
Ah well, tomorrow is another day…
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 REIGN
⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ BENDY
⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ TENET
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PENAL
SP… SPS
dagnabit 🙃, that green “eh” in r4c4 “rooned” my awesome stacks o’ gold. chased that there “eeee” all across the board…and only now just realized i already knew it wasn’t in c4 from the start…🤷♂️ got caught up thinking as i played “bogey” that it would be ever so appropriate to play as a fifth guess and have it be the winner. ⛳️🎯⚡️
ahhh well, c’est la vie, me hearties! 🏴☠️🦜
Wordle 1,870 5/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ creek
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ bogey 🤷♂️
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 spade
🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜ expat
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 penal
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rapid fire catapult sling launch.
I think there should be a badge for “sea of yellows”
agreed! i was sooo close!
👍 sweet gnu icon btw!
thanx .. I’m a big fan of the marks bruhs. (sea whut u maid me dew? I’m being kralc-ified.) 🤡
weight, wut??? 🤓
I don’t think the “sea of greens” is all that significant.
Thinking of which. What would you rather have? One letter in the correct position or two letters in the wrong position?
One thing I sometimes think about is there a way to measure the “value” of that. Is one letter in the right position just as good as 2 letters in the wrong position?
I would think it largely depends on which letters are being matched.
What do you guys think?
Agreed—Sea of Greens is meaningless and random. A sea of yellows, on the other hand, now there’s something you don’t see every day. I had to work hard to get that skill score of 8. Ima dork. 😜
Skill 8/99
🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨
⬜🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜
🟨⬜🟨🟨🟨
🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜
In re: measuring the value … it 100% matters which letters we’re talking about, as you said. It’s the combination that eliminates the most NU words that I care about. If it’s the right letters & letter placement, 2 yellows could be better than even 4 greens (I just checked my chart to verify this).
It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if you knew how to formulate this as a tool with your elite analyzing skills. It would certainly be interesting.
I think so, but I obviously haven’t done it yet.
I would probably measure the “value” by the average number of solutions it eliminates.
Most likely the position and the letter make a difference.
🤯 woodang! now that is an impressive grid!
makes me think of “breakfast sweet as honey, post honeycomb” yumm!
Honeycomb—the only sugar cereal my mom would buy for us. It must have been the cheapest one. Huh…I had forgotten that jingle but I remember big mac’s.
Wordle 1,870 2/6*
⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ TREAD
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PENAL
[The Salesman]
I was thinking BEGAN first. But I was iffy on the past tense. I was willing to go with my second thought of PENAL because it has both N and L, strong likely end letters.
Woot woot woot 🦅 you were not penal-ized for that choice 🤦🏻♀️
Well done!
Nice play!
Wordle 1,870 3/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 RAISE
⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ CLEAT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PENAL
RAISE leaves 14 words on my list.
CLEAT is the best filter for this pattern in all cases but FELLA and LEANT.
In this case, leaves only PENAL.
I am surprised that there hasn’t been another REPEAT or an ADD in the last 2 days. I still think it’s coming.
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A jet ski with front handles tilted forward
I see it now. At first I thought the front handles were the yellow on the left and the yellow on the right was your head tilted back from the speed at which you were traveling.
but wait—penal doesn’t play into your word art today?!?! I mean, if you can make fudge out of a lemon… 😜
I couldn’t think of anything jail or criminal justice related for that image. LOL.
I couldn’t remember what the daily theme was either; so, I couldn’t use that either. (This happens when I’m using my phone instead of the computer)
I see now that it is “Coloring Book Day”. I have no ideas for that either!
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨SLATE (7 NU words)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩PENAL
PENAL was the only word to eliminate all but 1 NU and luckily it was the word. Helps with August goal of 3.0 average. Day 2 LOL 🥸
Wordle archive glitch: It lost most of my 2022 games, though my stats still show all 1,536 games played. I have the data, but I won’t re-enter them manually. The only reason I’ve pd the NYT subscription was so they’d keep my stats, as promised! Has this happened to others, and is there a fix? 🤔
Fantastic!
Great job!
WordleBot 1870 4/6
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 steal 11
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 venal 2
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 renal 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 penal
Familiar pattern @Jeb
LOL I added a 🥸 to my name and suddenly I’m a new player needing intervention from you. Sorry ‘bout that man named Jeb.
You could replace the purple rectangular-headed creature with a Groucho Marx head.
Hmmm… that would require knowledge and skill I do not possess.
@Jeb posted how to do it not too long ago. I was able to change my red robot into Snoopy.
It wasn’t that difficult to do.
If I could do it…
Set up a Gravatar identity. WordPress bought this service which helped make it legit. WordPress will automatically check your posting email (hidden) and show your preferred avatar photo / image. Works elsewhere on the internet, too. Safe.
https://gravatar.com
I’m working on altering the code that will *not* moderate you if you tweak your comment name. Only a new or changed email address will be modified.
Then the approved After Partier’s can go crazy with emoji names. Stay tuned for announcement.
Code is ready to test. Emoji away!
testing…1, 2, 3…testing!
💪⚡️🎯🏄♂️
🙏 sweet update!
Wordle 1,870 3/6
⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ Saner
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 Golpe
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Penal
After SANER, I used M-W to find a word with the letters G, L, O, & P.
I’m surprised that it accepted GOLPE, but grateful because that reduced the possibilities to only PANEL (first year answer) or PENAL.
Although a repeat is possible this soon after a repeat, it’s not likely.
Wordle 1,870 2/6
🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ LONER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PENAL
Intuition / luck ftw today
Well done!
Nice!
WOOT WOOT! 🦅
Wordle 1,870 4/6
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ adieu
🟩🟨🟨⬜🟨 place
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 petal
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 penal
Wordle 1,870 4/6
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ DAIRY
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ CLOUT
⬛🟩🟨⬛🟨 FELLA
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PENAL
Wordle 1,870 2/6
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 STEAL 11
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PENAL
I enjoy the challenge of just “thinking” words in my head, rather than looking up all the possibilities, and filtering those through the FF list for pu or not. For that reason I had a 50/50 guess between PENAL & FECAL.
Thanks to LEAST in this after party, who has given me a few additional words to put in my mental checklist next time I get this 1st word pattern (besides just FECAL)
Nice intuition today!
I too enjoy the challenge of just thinking words in my head.
That way I feel that my brain is being exercised in a way which will help it stay younger for longer.
Cool 🫘!
Wordle 1,870 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 STEAL
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 RENAL
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 VENAL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PENAL
I didn’t think she’d have yet another P word so I went with the more likely Renal as my second choice. Seems like TB has played many “AL” ending words recently. There are still more, of course.
Like, NODAL and AURAL.
And FECAL, unless that is one of the verboten words
Wordle 1,870 3/6
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨SLATE
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩FERAL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩PENAL
Greetings fellow SLATEr! I’m sorry I missed your post yesterday 🤦🏻♀️ Slate has been good to me— though I know from JD that RAISE is the best option. Change is so hard. 🔺=🪨
Your monthly averages are amazing and it looks as if you have been on a major improvement trajectory over the years. I wish I had the energy/time to map out all my scores over the last 4 years like JD does, then I could see improvements (hopefully) year over year- which would be fun!
In regards to the averages, It took some time up front to enter in all the data, but once that was done, it’s just a matter of keeping up with it.
I don’t think it took more than an hour or two, but it was so long ago now, I don’t recall.
That said, you could just start from a certain date. You don’t have to go back to the first day you ever played. That would be easier.
In regards to everything else, I’ve said many times, don’t do what I do if you just want to enjoy the game.
I’ve spent countless hours examining lists of words. I don’t think most people would enjoy doing that.
SLATE is a solid starting word. If it’s working for you, I don’t see a reason to change it (until it isn’t working.)
I’m sure you’ve written it out extensively elsewhere, but how did you determine that RAISE is the best starting word? Did the determination change at all once they started adding in repeats?
Short answer (I’ll try)
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When the analysts first started analyzing Wordle. They found the most common letters were E A R O T.
As a conclusion, they settled on ROATE as the best starting word. (better than ORATE, because there are more words that starting with “R” than “O”…)
As we know here at FF, they are more likely to play an unplayed word than a REPEAT.
So, in my analysis, I ignore REPEATs. Thus, the fact that they started REPEATs on 2/2/26 has no bearing. They have a REPEAT about %10 of the time.
ADD’s are ignored also, because their odds are also %10.
So, I just focus on the unplayed words in the 2315 list (the original answer list).
I computed the presence of each letter in the remaining words (the same way the original analysts considered the entire list).. This is a dynamic list; so, it changes every day as words get played.
Based on the 478 remaining words, the most common letters are.
E R A S I. (in that order)
The best anagram of ERASI is RAISE, because it puts the letters in the best position to get more “greens” than SERAI or ARISE.
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So, this are the best odds long term.
Lately, ROATE might have been better over the last 30 days, but hindsight is 20-20 (as they say).
Greetings.
Truthfully, I just started doing monthly averages when I saw others being posted here.
NY Times keeps track of my stats in a bar graph. I like that a lot.
I play with 3 other people. No bar graphs for them. They’re on their phones on an app. I keep track of their scores though. On New Year’s Eve, I give each a handmade ornament with their year-long stats on the back. Fun tradition.
Fun idea!
That’s a sweet idea!
Wordle 1,870 3/6*
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 arose
🟨🟩🟨🟨⬛ leant
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 penal
Wordle 1,870 4/6
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ ASTER
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 MECCA
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟨 BEGAN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PENAL
Wordle 1,870 3/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨arose
⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜cleat
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩penal
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ FLECK (single vowel)
⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ DEALT (ruled out an LE ending…)
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 RENAL (aw, not this one – wanted another #3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 1,870 4/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ QUASI 544
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ AHEAD 26
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 REGAL 6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
It is a bit QUAZI to start this way.
I agree with the above posting time but to me it was August 2
🎲🎲👍 like your style!
…and yaa, kinda quazi how dat dare dateline woiks! 🌏🌎🌍 😎