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#1903 FRI 09/04/2026
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88 responses to “#1903 FRI 09/04/2026”
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when the creek turned up an arrr anna knee rite out the gate i realized i forgot to eat 🤦♂️.
went rootin’ ’round in my rucksack ‘n found some ramen👍.
had to get some water boilin’ on my lil’ cookstove an’ hope them noodles ‘ll fill my belly.
🤔 wager’ed they wood…an’ they did. 😎Wordle 1,903 3/6*
⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ creek
🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ ramen
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wager -
Wordle 1,903 4/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ SLANT
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 CADRE
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ PYGMY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WAGERWordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 41/99Apparently nobody else in my situation (in the WordlBot’s sample) used PYGMY!
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Grid art: A fallen tree
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Well, that is a pretty wild sudden guess of a double Y. I could see how you carved your own path there.
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I suppose I should not have expected it to be common!
That said, though it wasn’t a possible answer, it was a good filter word. I usually don’t use filter words that aren’t possible answers, but there were way too many _A_ER words left, and I didn’t want to get trapped.
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I considered PYGMY as a filter for this one, but it gave me 50-50’s in the cases of EATER, HAREM, TAKER and TAMER.
GIMPY or EMPTY gave me better odds while only giving me 50-50 on 2 words.
Ultimately, I went with GIMPY (even though it repeated the “I” in RAISE).
Going forward, I can play EMPTY with confidence with that pattern.
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A milestone was reached yesterday.
80% of the original OG playable words have been played.
Originally 2315 words. They removed 6 (but one slipped) through. So, really removed 5. Later on they removed 21 more words (if you examine the WB data).
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So, from 2288 words. Only 457 remain.In comparison, exactly 600 ADDs could be played.
and 218 REPEATs <#237 remain*1
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Even though, ADD's are the largest group, the OG words are still the most likely to be played.=============================================
*1 – Until they start repeating the REPEATs. If that happens, a lot people will stop playing NYT Wordle and looking for something else to do while they have a coffee and a scone.-
Which removed word slipped through?
Also, as I think this was before I started playing, how do we know that those original 6 words were removed?
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FETUS on puzzle #324.1 5/9/22.
There was another puzzle on the same day
SHINE puzzle #324.2
FETUS is now banned. (To which I say why? It’s a perfectly good word). Apparently, there was a vote on abortion going on at that time; so, NYT pulled it midstream.
This is was just before NYT took full control over Wordle.
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The other 5 words were LYNCH, WENCH, PUPAL, SLAVE, FIBREWe know these have been removed. It’s well documented.
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I started playing on puzzle #367 on 6/21/22.
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It’s been so long since we had an S word, I thought we were due. Apparently not. Then was hoping for a 🐦⬛. Not yet. WAGERed on WAGER and saved my ante.
Wordle 1,903 3/6*
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 SAUCE 115
🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ RAVEN 37
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WAGERWordleBot
Skill 81/99
Luck 57/99-
nice tale! 🙋♂️ if it’d dropped in, an eagle with a raven woulda been a sweet deuce, i’d wager! still got a bird! 😉😎
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Wordle 1,903 5/6
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⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Turtle with a
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What were your words?
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🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛ WORTH
🟩🟨⬛⬛🟨 WRING
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WAGERW
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Congratulations!
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W for the win!
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Wordle 1,903 4/6*
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 STILE
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩 DREAR
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WAGERWordleBot
Skill 96/99
Luck 44/99
NYT AVG. 4.5 -
Wordle 1,903 4/6
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 Crane
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Plots
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 Dirge
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WagerCrane led to 49 possible answers. I thought briefly about checking out each of those, but my limit has been 40. Plots got it down to 6 possible answers, but I couldn’t find a good burner. Dirge got it down to Gazer vs. Wager. Usage for Gazer is Rare and usage for Wager is Uncommon. The NYT WordleBot Average at 10:15 a. m. Central Daylight Time today is 4.6, so I’m grateful for a 4.
From a Google search:
“How the WordleBot Average Works
* Dynamic updating: The average score shifts as a rolling sample of players finish the daily game. “-
That’s why I sometimes check at the end of the day, assuming the rolling is done by midnight. 🤷♀️
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I was lucky to get a 4 today, tying the Bot…
Wordle 1,903 4/6⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 SAUCE
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ OAKEN. 88WL
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 EATER. 22WL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WAGERI like the word oaken…
I thought it might be eater..
I liked the word wager…I never thought about the relationship of wage yo wager…-
or wager yo wage
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Wordle 1,903 4/6*
⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ TREAD
⬛🟩🟨⬛🟨 PARSE
🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛ RAVEN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WAGER[Barney’s Death – 1997]
I have a reasonable fear of guessing words that end in -ER. I put it off as long as I could. While I’m not happy with a 4, I think my delay paid off.
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where’s the purple?
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No purple, you are correct. 🤲
I usually do Wordle at a time of day when my phone is in dark mode. So at the time it the yellow do look a sort of muddy maroonish. So purple enough. Then I forget that it’s going to end up being yellow here.
But also occasionally my imagination runs further afield than the image can sustain.
Mainly I was trying to find something in there a little lighter than my first take which would have been ‘Sunrise on the Inferno’.
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And, a very funny and iconic Mike S grid art interpretation
🦕🟪 which reminds me of the time ….We have a beautiful professional portrait of my three nieces from when they were very young. I found out later that the photographer got them to look so serious and wide-eyed by telling them Barney had died. 😳 Traumatized the kids but hey a gorgeous photo is all that matters, right? 🤦🏻♀️
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It was a different time. So the photographer may not have been able to easily show them a video. But there were lots of witnesses.
Sadly, Barney was out of control. Even his closest group of supporters could barely restrain him. It was clear that it was only a matter of time until his unpredictable actions would result in injury to dozens if not hundreds of people, not to mention the potential property damage.
In the end, it was his own posse that brought him down. For a brief moment it looked as if, in time, he might even be able to be rehabilitated. But the cops came in and violently finished him off.
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Wordle 1,903 4/6
⬛⬛🟦🟦⬛
⬛⬛🟦⬛⬛
⬛🟧🟧🟧🟧
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧STEAL, CURDY left 25 possible, 7 unused: AFIRE, GAZER, GRAZE, PAGER, RAVEN, REARM, WAGER.
I tried PAGER, which left EAGER (1426) and WAGER (unused)
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Wordle 1,903 3/6
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 RAISE
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ GIMPY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WAGERRAISE leaves 9 OG words.
There is no clear filter in these words that would necessarily lead directly to the answer; so, I have to engineer a burner word.
I do what I always do. I chart all possibilities. I count the number of letters in all 9 words.
G-3, T-3, M-2, P-2, Y-2 are the leaders.
I come up with EMPTY (LOL. As opposed to coming up empty!) and GIMPY even though it repeats the I.
Both eliminate all but 2 words.
EMPTY could give me a choice between GAZER and WAGER.
GIMPY could give me a choice between
EATER and TAKER.With the recent plays of REMIX and JOIST, I was thinking there may be a run on ZJXQ words. So, I suspect GAZER may be the answer.
With this, I chose GIMPY.
That didn’t lead to GAZER, but it did give me the G in WAGER.
Lucky for me, because after EMPTY, I would have gone GAZER and not WAGER.
That would have been a 4!
Now, I can guess EMPTY and guarantee a 3 (except in the cases of ADDs or REPEATS).
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A person using an original box Kodak camera to take a photo of a large yellow bird.Owners RAISE race horses
Hard races. They come up GIMPY.
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Nice to already have yer 2nd word picked out for next time.🙌🏻
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That’s the last step for me every day when I solve the puzzle. I evaluate whether the “2nd guess” word I have for that pattern is still valid.
Depending on what words fall off the list, I might adjust my second word.
Sadly, my second guess for this pattern is still a “burner” word rather than one of the words already on the list. So, I am ruling out a 2 when I do that, but it is worth the sacrifice if it will virtually guarantee a solve in 3.
I also adjust my letter count (especially on patterns that have larger numbers possibilities). The worst for RAISE is an I in the wrong position. That still has 36 unplayed OG words possible.
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Your analyses always impress me.
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⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨SLATE 16 nu og wl; 🤖140
🟨🟩⬛🟩🟩GAYER 1 nu og wl & 2 nu add
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩WAGER nu ogGAYER=nu og wl & the only perfect filter
Possible adds = PAGER & RAGER
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‼️-EDs: 🤖 had a 50 ADDs that ended in -ed (of the 140 possible words). Most had <0.1% probability, but several were 1.6% same as the answer WAGER.
I don’t know if this is normal or new with all the -ed adds from the 🤖. I’ve been ignoring -ed words.
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Interesting, we must study the WB list to see if there is a change in the NYT view on ED words.
https://wordletools.azurewebsites.net/weightedbottles?SortOrder=ByWeight&submit=Submit
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Wordle 1,903 5/6
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨SLATE
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨EDEMA
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩REBAR
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩PAVER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩WAGERWordleBot
Skill 56/99 -seems about right 🙁
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Wordle 1,903 5/6
🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ adieu
⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ tares
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 laver
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 paper
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wager-
I just realized today that adieu is not among the OG word list. 😳 I thought it was common, so looked it up. It is not only not common in English speaking countries, not even in France, apparently.
Final goodbye: It literally means “to God” (à Dieu). Native French speakers avoid using it for everyday goodbyes. It implies a permanent or very long separation, unlike the casual au revoir (goodbye).
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It is a high probability ADD as ADIEU has a 58% WB rating.
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It would be awesome as an ADD to see so many get it in one
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I believe ADIEU is still the most popular start word, and NYT is aware of it.
So, it wouldn’t shock me to see it played just for that reason.
They may want to give a lot of people the “thrill” of getting it in ONE.
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ADIEU was my first and only daily start word. That only lasted until NYT took over. I still think it’s a decent start.
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What puzzle number did you start on?
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I wish I knew! I lost all my stats from before NYT took over. And since I continued to play using the original powerlanguage link without refreshing for a couple months, and I had a different account before subscribing, I don’t have an accurate number from after they took over either. I realized on 2/15/22, that I was not playing the same version as my friends because our puzzles were different (I had AGORA, they had AROMA). According to my message thread with my Wordle friends, which we had started just the week before, I updated the NYT link the following day and expressed that I was pissed because I lost all my stats. (Apparently there was a way to recover them, but I didn’t know that at the time.) Then, after I subscribed, I lost my stats again. So, my records in NYT start on at #388 on 7/12/22, but I know I have been playing since at least November 2021 because I started a few weeks after Dad died that October.
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Exactly my question. So you were playing pre-NYT? Makes me wonder how many on here are in the same boat. 🛶
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I was playing for a little over a month before it switched to NYT.
The first mention in my text records is me telling my family about it on January 2, 2022.
I remember seeing an article about its popularity, maybe even in the NYT, though maybe The Guardian or somewhere else.
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Sounds like Mike and I started around the same time. I guess that makes us OG Nerdles!
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🙋♂️ we have identified riders on the earlybird special!
_____🚂🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋__🤔 👍 by my reck’nin’ itz high time to sound the
ohhgeewordlenerdlert! 😎🤯⚡️🚨🔔🔔🔔💥
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I like that… Mike S. and Kim S. are “OG Nerdles.”
JD & I started a month or 2 later than U2, so that makes us just plain vanilla Nerdles. 🍨
Even though I started with NYT, they lost a bunch of my early scores in my archives. Yet, I keep paying them every month…
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🤷♂️ 🤔 i dunno…youse guys have some secret sauce so u r a coupla’ og nerdle sundaes at the very least! …maybe even with whipped cream, sprinkles anna cherry on top!
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not lookin’ to steal jd’s thunder here…but cant resist this one…an i loki play the same way 😎🤯
miles to joel in risky business
“The thing is… I don’t have to pay for it”.
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…i give up some nyt perks but can manage to get by without them. itz saul goodman.
______🚂🚋🚋🚋🚋🚋
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kralc … re-watched the scene with Booger in it … oh wait that’s another of the unfortunate teen movies of my youth … so worth it, cuz talking heads r in the background … reminding me of the best concert film ever … I mean, what was David Byrne on?
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yaa, u betcha! when u put on the big suit, any-ting knotsew loki can happen. 😎
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🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 AROSE
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ MALTY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WAGERWAGER is the best choice at 3, giving unique combinations for all 5 NU options: GAZER, PAGER, RARER, RAVEN, WAGER, WAVER.
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Wordle 1903 5/6 (Bot)
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 sauce (115)
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ panel #66 (64)
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 tamer (14)
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 faker (10)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wagerAlmost out of runway. 🛬
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Faker isn’t on the original list, not sure about added
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I only use the past answers list. I don’t look at lists using future information (original list, allowed guesses, remaining new, adds, or repeat today.) Mainly out of habit from the early no-spoiler position of Five Forks, which is very important to many of the list users.
After Party announces “SPOILERS AHEAD” so fair game here!
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Wordle 3/6
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ CLEAT (193)
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 AROSE (40)
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Wordle 1,903 3/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ STEAL
🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ ADIEU
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WAGERWordleBot
Skill 74/99
Luck 58/99
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Wordle 1,903 4/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 LONER
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 TIGER
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WAGERReally thought letter 2 would be I and lucked into getting the G.
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Nice pattern!
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A green staircase!
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Wordle 1,903 3/6
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 Saner
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ Gript
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WagerThis is why I like easy mode. 😁
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I played it similarly.
I had to play the burner word today. (I rarely do).
It worked out today.
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Wordle 1,903 4/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨slate
🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜raven.
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩payer. Tried P before W word. Nope!
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Wordle 1,903 6/6*
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 arose I smell the traps
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 rarer I made it worse
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 paper
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 later
🟨🟩⬛🟩🟩 gamer what would mum do? “nu” son
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Love that question, Paul!
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PHEW!!!!
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Nicely done to avoid a loss!
I fear RARER will be the answer some day, and that word will cause losses for many players.
Probably a good thing you eliminated that one.
I know it’s a tough word in Quordle.
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Wordle 1,903 4/6
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Wordle 1,903 3/6
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨arose
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩tamer
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩wager
Like Hi There, I also expected to have to try a few after tamer, but I didn’t really like any of the other options so I went with wager and got lucky.
I wondered why pager wasn’t in the list of possibles that I was looking at. Apparently, while it can be a guess, it can’t be the answer?!-
Agree it’s odd pager is not on the list. I’ll wager TB will add it.
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I totally read your opening few words as if Moon Unit Zappa was saying them. 😁
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Wordle 1,903 6/6*
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ TARPS 56 wl
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ FAIRY 32 wl
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 RADAR 14 wl
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 LAXER 7 wl
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 NAMER 5 wl
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WAGERWordleBot
Skill 59/99
Luck 42/99
Prof. Mike’s group word of the weekI decided to use only words that were not PU. The most likely PU word that came to me was MAJOR (#20), but the ER ending became clear. I prepared to X out until the successful WAGER.
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Is the season of U over?
Good job in avoiding disaster!
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JD,
Yes, it ended Monday. Now we’re doing a week of each word.
Today was an unintentional Nettleton for me. Phew 🙂
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Yikes! Good job on getting a win
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Wordle 1,903 3/6
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 AROSE
🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛ RAVEN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Odds were I should NOT have had this in the 3rd guess! There were eleven good NU words to choose from still. Thought I’d end up chasing the solution.
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Wordle 1,903 4/6*
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 SAUCE
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 TAMER
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 PAPER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Went with the pu on the third guess. First 4 this month.
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Wordle 1,903 5/6
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ STEAL 184
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 CADRE 22
⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ HAREM 15
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER 3
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩The WB really HATED HAREM at guess 3 – scored it a 51 skill. I won’t be DOING that again. It did PLACE both vowels in GREEN though. Tapped in the BOGEY after getting so CLOSE!
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My BOT suggested I use CADRE so I hope it kudo’d you for using that word.
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Wordle 1,903 6/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ QUASI 544
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ABODE 110
⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ HAREM 29
🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ RAVEN 21
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER 3
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Oh dear! Just got it.
I relied on my brain for too long today.-
Swarm of drones over a city.
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Love this take on your grid art!
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I also played HAREM and PAGER before the answer. There are still a lot of A/E possibilities out there!!
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Way to avoid disaster. There have been a few 6’s today!
The drone swarm over an oil refinery works also (if you want to go for current events).
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needing some🍀 😊
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ IMPLY nu
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ KUDOS add
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ REACT pu (was supposed to be my green flash!)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I’d’ve put one of these on not solving in 1,2 or 3 today![spring daffodils]
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Loving the daffodils that are here now for us downunders.
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True – I love how the bulb flowers herald spring ! 🎺🌷🌼💐
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