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#1879 TUE 08/11/2026
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.
95 responses to “#1879 TUE 08/11/2026”
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Well, not quite as impressive as Kim S, but my usual starting word is paying off lately. What still annoys me, though, is that they’re doing repeats when there are still many common words left, like today’s!
Scoredle 2/6*
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🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨 FELON (11)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FENCE-
Nice solve in 2!
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Congrats!
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I was pleasantly surprised to get the F as my goal was more focused on the OLIC. FENCE was the only 2315 word left.
Wordle 1,879 2/6*
🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 FOLIC 8
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FENCEWordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 93/99-
Kim is back!
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Congrats!
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Wordle 1,879 4/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩slate
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩moire (Someone’s choice the other day)
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩coupe
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩fence -
Updated Letter Tiers.
In fives
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E R A S I – Tier 1O T L Y N – Tier 2
U C P D H – Tier 3
G M B K W – Tier 4
F V Z J X Q – Tier 5
Mathematically
E (183) – Tier 1R (172), A (169) – Tier 2 *These have swapped places a couple of times.
S (154), I (145) – Tier 3 *Moved ahead of O and T.
O (123), T (122), L (122), Y (119) – Tier 4 *Incredibly close!
N (108), U (100) – Tier 5 *Further evidence of the overrating of U.
C (87), P (78), D (74) – Tier 6 *C and D actually only fell one spot. P has risen (hence all the P and I words).
H(62), G(60), M(61) – Tier 7 * Also, incredibly close! H fell a couple spots.
B(52), K(45), W(41), F(40) – Tier 8 *F just fell behind W today after FENCE. It used to be ahead of K too.
V(27) – Tier 9 * A tier on to itself.
Z(8), J(7), X(4), Q(3) – Tier 10 * No recent changes. Originally was Z X Q J
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Notable PositionsS1(95) – most common starting letter. (%20 of all answers)
A2(73) – most common second letter. Interesting because of A3(43). They used to be almost even.
I2(56) is second behind A2(73)
I3(64) – most common third letter by far.
E4(74) – most common fourth letter by far.
Y5(106) – most common ending letter. (%22 of all answers.)
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As a newbie here, I’m not remembering what you mean by “tiers” can you ‘splain ??? 🤩 It’s probably self-explanatory, but, self is not cooperating.
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You’re not fooling anyone with that disguise and name change! 🤣😉
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🤓 personally, i prefer to think of them as the tears of frequency.
i believe they have something to do with the richter scale and are inversely proportional to the wells of doom.hope that helps. 🤔😎
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🤣😂🥲😢😭 the 5 tears of frequency
Why yes, that arrrrr a grate help … 🏴☠️😎
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A tier is a convenient way to group the letters by frequency.
For example (Tier 4 letters)
O (123), T (122), L (122), Y (119)O exists in 123 remaining words
T exists in 122 remaining words
L exists in 122 remaining words
Y exists in 119 remaining wordsSo, if you were deciding whether to play one of these letters over the other, it (sort of) doesn’t matter because they exist in the same number of words (approximately).
Since T and L have the same number, they could be ranked interchangeably.
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E(183) is in a tier by itself, because there’s a gap of 11 words before you get to R(172).R(172) is in the same tier as A(169), because the gap is only 2 words.
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The non-mathematical tiers (groups of 5) are just a convenience for me to memorize the order of the letter frequency.ERASI – Eras, I
OLTYN – Only Like Things You Notice.
UCPDH – You Can Push Down Harry.
GMBKF – Give More Butt-Kicking Force.
WV – WaVe
ZJXQ – Zoltar Judges eXams QuicklyOf course, this is Zoltar from the movie Big.
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💡Eureka! 🛎️Ding Ding Ding! 🐮Cowabunga! 🧩 Booyah!
I simply cannot believe the sheer amount of info you track and update on a daily basis. But… Convenient? “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” ….. Inigo Montoya 🗡️ lolz
I want to cut and paste everything you share with us into a file -including the hilarious acronyms.
Thanks ever-so-much! 🙏🤩✨
🔮coinkydinkally, I just saw Zoltar at a store recently
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Once the formulas are set up in the chart, then it just reads off the list of words.
Every day, when a word gets played, I fill in the puzzle number in the puzzle number column.
Then, when I resort the list by puzzle number, the played word from the 2315 list moves from the unplayed list to the played list.
The played list is on top and the unplayed list is on the bottom.
When the word moves out of the list, the number of words for those particular letters go down by 1 (and it in each position).
So, when PUPPY got played, the number of P words went down by 1, but P1, P3, P4 also went down by 1.
P1 means P in the first position
P3 means P in the third position
P4 means P in the fourth positionSo, since I was always keeping track of the played and unplayed words anyway, this is no extra work for me.
The tiers list is simply the sum totals of the letters in each position sorted in a list from most to least.
Then I just eyeball compare the totals to see if any of the letters need to be moved up or down.
For example, when I posted this, W moved ahead of F for a day when FENCE was played. Then, WIMPY was played and they moved back to a tie, because W went down by 1. LOL.
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🙋♂️i’m puzzled by the fact that your lists are being manipulated by a resort (🧐 unlikely a five star)…and, does your unplayed list have a clue it’s being played? definitely may not appreciate it. just sayin’.
🤔 that may explain all the tears.
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Punctuation matters.
Let’s eat, grandma!
Let’s eat grandma! 🔪👵🏻😱
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jd…jd…🌎 to jd
u gotta call on line one.🤓 i tried to take it but not sure i helped. over to you… 😎
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I just replied to the voicemail. LOL.
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REPEAT rate is %8.1 (1 every 12 days on average)
ADD rate is %32.4 (1 every 3 days on average)
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If every REPEAT and ADD were both 1 every 10 days since CIGAR.We are 1 REPEAT ahead of the pace.
We are 4 ADDs behind the pace.
It might explain the increase of ADDs and the slight decrease on REPEATs.
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Wordle 1,879 3/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ROUST
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 ALINE
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2/6
JONES
FENCEI had planned to use KOLEA as my starter wird in celebration of friends who just completing sailing their 39’ boat named “Kolea” from Mexico to Hawaii and then to Oregon, but Wordle does not accept kolea as a word! So unfair!! Heron, eagle, and snipe have all been solutions and kolea is in the MW dictionary. And aloha was also just a solution! Time for a letter to the editor!!
PS I used JONES instead, in honor of my sister’s 400 lb pet pig, who died yesterday. They had to take down a FENCE so the large animal removal service could get to him, so an “easy” 2/6 😢
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Interesting. Wardle didn’t capture it in his original list of playable words.
It is in the OED.
I did not know this word.
The COCA score is literally 1 in a billion.
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Congrats on the 2 BTW.
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Sorry, no emoji for kolea, but jones in luck 🐖
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I looked up the definition earlier today and it is a bird. Does that help?
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Congrats!
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🤔 had to mull this short putt over from a few angles. p or f, p or f, break right, break left…or no break? (is pence even a word i’d use in a sentence??? …hmmm🧐, it is on the og list 🤷♂️)
wit da run on p’s weighing on me mind i stepped up, shook it off and stroked the f. 🥁🥁🥁⚡️🎯
twofer tuesday. 💣 boom!
Wordle 1,879 2/6*
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ creek
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 fence-
Nice!
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Dropping the F💣 for the win 🏴☠️
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😆 hah, thx. 🤯 good call!
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Wordle 1,879 3/6*
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 STILE
🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 FRAME
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FENCEWordleBot
Skill 73/99
Luck 67/99
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Wordle 1,879 3/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ Alert
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 Scion
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FenceI got it down to Dunce, Fence, or Pence. I saw that Dunce is a possible answer, but due to the negative connotation, I doubt that Ms. Bennett would use it. Using the “letter frequency by position chart” based on the original NYT list there were more answers starting with F as compared to P. The chart is at: real-statistics.com
I still don’t understand exactly how y’all see pictures in the green and yellow squares, but maybe I see yellow butterflies in the park.-
The Weighted Bottle score for DUNCE is 57.07%; so, per Wordle Bot, it’s a certain play and still on the 2315 list.
That doesn’t mean to say that whomever is overseeing the Bot list is TB and that she wouldn’t override that person.
I would say if she excludes a word like that, she’s gone a little too far with the word exclusions IMHO.
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Per the original word frequency list.P is in 367 words, F is in 230 words.
So, P was more frequent than F from day 1.
P1 is in 142 words, F1 is in 136 words.
So, more words start with P than F (also from day 1).
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In the words that are unplayed (from 2315) (updated on 8/9/26)
P is in 79 words. F is in 41 words.
P1 is in 29 words. F1 is in 31 words.
So, in the words remaining “F” has a slight edge in the first position, but it’s only slight.
You wouldn’t have found that on that word frequency chart.
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I’m more interested in comparing C (88), P (79), and D (74) words since they are all adjacent in the same tier. They didn’t start out that way.===========================================
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Nice!
Where can I find that chart?
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https://real-statistics.com/wordle-strategy/wordle-letter-frequency-and-patterns/
This is the original list based on the 2315 word list.
The list I have only exists in my spreadsheet with Excel formulae. This is a dynamic list that updates daily.
BTW, there is an error in the original list. It counts the number of letters in their respective positions correctly, but then it sums them up together to get the totals. That is incorrect! This counts words like PUPPY, 3 times for P. I correct this in my spreadsheet.
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⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛ TONAL
⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛ PUNCH
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FENCEOn a stupider day, it could’ve been mince, since or wince (repeats.)
Shoutouts to BILL FENCE
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Nice.
According to wordgamesbot analysis, PINEY was technically a better guess, but would have left me far more options today. I did think of it, but wanted to get CH out of the way before Y since we just had a terminal Y.
Basically a perfect game since it says PUNCH was the next best guess by +0.046 guesses (lol) unless you could somehow think of PINCE or PUNCE as the top 2 guesses (not on the real list.)-
That’s interesting because PINEY is a PI word.
I agree with your analysis though.
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Wordle 1,879 3/6
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🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧Wordle’s “share” button made my browser freeze again. Hmmm…
STEAL, ROUND left 19 possible, only 4 unused: FENCE, HYMEN, PENCE, WENCH (same set from FEIGN). I chose well.
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Wordle 1,879 4/6*
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ TREAD
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 PULSE
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 HENGE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FENCE[High Moon Over the Sacrificial Stone]
4s and 2s. 4s and 2s! … Aaaa, you know the rant.
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Sea of Green and beat the Bot by 2…plus my 3s are closer to my 4s…
Wordle 1,879 3/6⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 SAUCE
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 BOCCE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FENCEMy whole game today was gut feel…
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Fun gut 3 of greens!
KARMA #13 07/02/21
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Wordle 1,879 2/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 RAISE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FENCENow, I know TB likes me.
RAISE leaves 11 words.
The best filters are FENCE and DUNCE.
I have been playing FENCE consistently with this pattern.
Perhaps, they’ve played enough P words where they can go back to C words. Continuing from CLUNK.
FENCE has the EE too. So, are we back to that?
I don’t think so.
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A FENCE stands at the end of the lawn.-
Another 2!
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That token fence is not going to keep much in or out! 😄
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Amazing!!!!🤩
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Wordle 1,879 3/6
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ Saner
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 Typic
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FenceLately, the Google n-gram viewer page has been helpful. For example today, it said FENCE appears more often than DUNCE or WENCH. I don’t like those two words anyway.
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Good solve.
FENCE is a more common word than DUNCE.
WENCH was removed from the solution set anyway.
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Wordle 1,879 5/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ adieu
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 posse
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 merge
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 belle
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⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 SLATE 🤖121
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 GROIN 3NU, 4PU
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 PENCE went for the NU P word, naturally
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FENCE 🤖 chose PU HENCEA four-stepper day… whomp whomp whomp
*was it my imagination or were there ads on here yesterday? Not this morning, though, so far.*
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When I use Chrome, I see ads.
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I use Duck Duck Go too. Seems to be safer.
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JD and RUTH
Glad to see fellow Ducksters – I never see ads here either!
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I would have play PENCE too (in your context) for the “P”.
The only reason I play FENCE is because FEMME and FUDGE are still unplayed. FENCE leads me to both in 3.
Now, I have to shift to “DUNCE” which will work for every word except MELEE and TEPEE.
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I’ve got to up my game if I’m going to meet my goal. I need to study what JD does… 🧐 ✨
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If I really wanted to improve my results, I think I would try to emulate what Kim S does. The result speaks for itself.
For me, I have a method that works but takes a lot of work to get there. It’s all based on mathematics and probability.
This is why I say that people shouldn’t do what I do.
I’m way more into the analysis than the game.
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✨ I would rather study the analysis than the game too. Do you have a place online, a blog, youtube, forum, or other where you post your daily comments other than at FF? Having your posts all in one place would be much nicer than searching through 100s of past After Parties for JD posts. Also, I wouldn’t be surprised if you go <3.0 for August! Woot! ✨
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Wordle(Bot) 1879 2/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 SAUCE (13)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FENCEFive Forks Filter knocks out 10. 👍
Include: ???CE Exclude: SAU[Small beach on a shallow Cove of Greens]
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🦅 fantastic! You escaped the trap! You chose between fence, pence, and…?
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The 13 is WordleBot’s “words left” but I do not know how to look to see what those 13 are. I have the Bot’s “knowledge of past words” enabled. Maybe it looks at Five Forks.
FFF knocked out the 10 below based on ???CE and exclude SAU.
FORCE 1015 03/30/24
HENCE 1085 06/08/24
MINCE 299 04/14/22
NIECE 1800 05/24/26
PIECE 1364 03/14/25
PRICE 975 02/19/24
TRICE 457 09/19/22
TWICE 424 08/17/22
VOICE 384 07/08/22
WINCE 217 01/22/22HENCE made me think of FENCE. I had to decide to go with the two E’s. Nothing else jumped out, and I like to include Ns in row 2, so I decided, why not?
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Nice one (two) 👍
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Good Play Chief!
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Yes, good game!
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Congrats!
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Wordle 1,879 3/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ STEAL 406
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ CRIED 8
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FENCEHunting for the elusive E position worked out better today than yesterday
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Wordle 1,879 4/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩SLATE
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨GROIN
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩DUNCE
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Do u also keep a chart/list of best 2nd words after SLATE for each scenario?
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Christine, I do not, I just rely mentally on a short list of followup words that I’ve grown comfortable with.
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You got moderated, Jeff, because of a type-o in your email. That is the unique “key” for WordPress. I fixed it. If you check the remember me box, it is supposed to drop in your comment name and (private) email address.
Party on!
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I aspire to get comfortable with follow up GROIN. 🙂
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Wordle 1,879 3/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ STEAL
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 RIPEN (P, I, and N)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FENCEBeat the 🤖 today (in Hard mode) but still no prize available. Used ESP for the solve.
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We need to add an acronym to the key for ESP 👁️🔮✨
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Wordle 1,879 5/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 DOUSE
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 WAIVE
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 TEPEE
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 FEMME
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FENCEAll over the map today!
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Nice sea of green!
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Wordle 1,879 4/6*
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 arose
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 cutie
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 pence another 50/50 gone the other way
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another game of eliminate the consonants….
Sat 13. Mon 10. Tue 9.⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ SPILT sv (for JD) not this time….
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ DOWNY hmmm, floating N
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 MANGE (didn’t like putting this – sorry cat lovers)
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Yep, she slipped in another non PI word in there like CLUNK the other day.
We might be back to PI’s tomorrow.
PI’s have been investigating this game. LOL.
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🤣- you got me – v. funny !
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If you have the courage, try SPILT tomorrow.
It’s not a bad start word.
Not sure what I would follow that with if you match no letters.
Maybe ONERY, RAYON or YEARN. I have no idea whether these have been played (since I haven’t checked).
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Too late JD, have played my hand 🃏 complete with last- minute switch 🙄
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Wordle 1,879 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ SIEUR 408 wl
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ELATE 8 wl
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 PENCE 2 wl
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FENCEWordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 51/99
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sUmmer of U-words from Professor Mike – aUg. 11; SIEUR sponsored by DaveGUsually a P, but not today!
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Wordle 1,879 3/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩arose
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜unity
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I’m impressed. You went from just one green and one yellow to the whole word!
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I ran it through WordleBot:
Wordle 1,879 3/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩arose 94 WL
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜unity 4 WLUsing FF Filter:
Include [????E] & Exclude [AROSUITY]Gives you this past use list:
BELLE 1763 04/17/26
DELVE 331 05/16/22
EMCEE 1835 06/28/26
HENCE 1085 06/08/24
LEDGE 658 04/08/23
PENNE 1138 07/31/24
WEDGE 391 07/15/22And remove any of those missing the yellow “N”:
HENCE 1085 06/08/24
PENNE 1138 07/31/24Knocks out 2 of the very small pool left.
Not sure what the other option was. PENCE?🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩fence
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Did you use Five Forks Filter to narrow down your guess?
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Jeb,
No, I wasn’t even aware of the filter (I’m notoriously unobservant, but I see it now). I use wordsrated.com to get the list of possible words based on my guesses. Then I use the main list in FF to eliminate the ones that have already been used (or sometimes look for those that were used early on). Then I use letter frequency and placement to pick a guess that, if wrong, will eliminate the most words in the list of possibles. I have not tried to work out a strategy for pu’s so they mess me up.
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You play 4D Wordle! 😉
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That’s a great method and an excellent breakdown.
It’s not too dissimilar to the way I play.
Thanks for sharing your method.
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Wordle 1,879 4/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ PIVOT 807
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 LAUDE 13
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 HENCE 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FENCEOnly par but beat the Bot and sea of greens. Too lazy to check the list at HENCE. Should always floss.
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