PAGER 🎂🎁🥳🎈The Hobbit 1937
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#1920 MON 09/21/2026
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.
127 responses to “#1920 MON 09/21/2026”
Lucky start! Thought about doing PAGER for my 2nd guess, but opted for the 2315 PAYER to be safe. Swing and a miss. Then I really struggled between the ➕PAGER and the ♻️PAPER for my 3rd. I was afraid I might fall down the 🐇 🕳️ on this one. Got 🍀 again.
Wordle 1,920 3/6*
🟩🟩🟨⬜🟨 PARSE 6
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 PAYER 5
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER➕
WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 74/99
Wordle 1,920 4/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ SLANT
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 CADRE
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ PYGMY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 40/99
PYGMY has worked very well for me in this scenario.
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Grid art: a cadre of assassin bees attack a pygmy house
Wordle 1,920 5/6*
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ANISE
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ REACT
🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜ EARLY
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 WAGER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
Forgot to post yesterday; too much going on here.
When life gets in the way of Wordle…
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ MISTY
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ BOUND
⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛ CREEK
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 PALER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
Nice add, played og list first but did consider pager by guess 3
Haven’t had a double black in a while
Bound is the only _ound left btw
Wordle 1,920 3/6*
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 STILE
⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ DREAM
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
WordleBot
Skill 93/99
Luck 49/99
NYT AVG. 3.2
I didn’t expect DREAM to be the solution, but it did give me three more letters!
was lowkey hangin’ with my posse, gnawin’ on some kebabs ‘n raven ’bout a rager goin’ on in town when…my pager went off. 🤯 y’all shoulda’ seen the looks and the int’rest, ‘specially when i axed if there was a payphone nearby. 🤷♂️
resistance is f.utile (not) 😉😎🤯
Wordle 1,920 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 utile
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ kebab
🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ raven
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 pager
Wordle 1,920 4/6
⬛⬛🟦🟦⬛
🟦⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟦⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
After STEAL, RINDY, I had a brain fart and forgot to check all of my resources. GUMBO left me with AGREE (used twice), EAGER (1426), PAGER (unused), WAGER (1903). PAGER was an ADD.
Scoredle 4/6*
14,855
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ AUDIO (2,513)
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨 CARTE (83)
🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ RAVEN (47)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
My other thought was gafer but decided to play what seemed the most common word. And of course, as it turns out, that word has two f’s 🤪
I try and avoid er words that are modifiers of other adjectives … and so far I’m too lazy to use the other lists which show probable Wordle words …
Wordle 1,920 5/6
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 Crate
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Loins
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 Rarer
🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 Gazer
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Pager
This made me appreciate the beauty of getting even one letter in the correct position in the first 2 guesses!
That road-to-nowhere feeling with first two guesses of goose eggs. But sometimes you get a green flash on 3!
That’s what saved me today!
Per the song… The road to nowhere leads to Ozzy Osbourne.
I don’t think I’d ever heard that song before today. My Ozzy knowledge only spans from Black Sabbath to just past the Randy Rhoads era.
Maybe it’s more pedestrian (no pun intended), but Road to Nowhere makes me think of The Talking Heads.
Not exactly sure where that road led to. Paradise? Oblivion? … Both?
Same. Talking Heads.
🙋🏼♀️ me, too. Talking Heads.
A great reference!
Yes! I quite agree. Congrats on the 4.
A very lucky 2
114th 2 and 13th BTB
Wordle 1,920 2/6
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 SAUCE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
Congrats!
Way to go 114! and 13 BTB!
13th back to back. Wow.
Pretty awesome w 114 2s!
Wordle 1,920 2/6*
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨 paste
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 pager
Congrats!
Congrats!
Nice 2!
Wordle 1,920 4/6*
⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ TREAD
🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛ RAVEN
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 SAFER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
[Father Punch]
Too many 4s these days.
Beats my six (or worse )any day!
My one remaining Wordle goal relates to my 3s to 4s ratio.
I don’t want worse, but 5s or even 6s would be better. 4s don’t help.
For clarity, the Wordle art is Punch, the monkey, as a father, not a punch from a father, … or a priest with the unusual last name of Punch. 😁
I don’t get it
There’s a lot going on there. I knew that title and image could be asking a bit much. … I just wanted to circle back to make sure it all wasn’t giving off the message of paternal abuse.
A little while back there was pretty viral story of a monkey born in a zoo that was shunned by the other monkeys and ignored by its mother (due to a difficult birth and high heat at the time). The baby monkey was named Punch. It was given a big Ikea stuffed monkey as a companion. There were a lot of pictures of Punch cuddling with the stuffed monkey and dragging it from place to place. Eventually the group of monkeys became more accepting of Punch.
With the Wordle art I was giving Punch a continued happy story. I see an adult monkey lying on its back with its arms and legs in the air holding aloft something smaller. That’s adult Punch holding up his own baby.
Lovely!
Thanks for explaining.
We did of course get that story downunder but I hadn’t remembered that his name was Punch.
LOLZ —I was thinking exactly the same thing MikeS when I read ur grid art … thanks for clarifying 🥊👨🏻✝️
Wordle 1,920 5/6
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 RAISE
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ EMPTY
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 PALER
⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ CARGO
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
This one was evil.
RAISE leaves 9 OG NU.
EMPTY is a burner word that would guarantee 3 on OG NU words only.
E1 rules out EATER. M rules out TAMER and HAREM. P rules in PALER or PAYER. T1 rules out TAKER and TAMER. Y rules out GAYER and PAYER. Ruling out all of those should leave WAGER.
EMPTY led to only PALER except that wasn’t correct.
All OG NU eliminated.
That leaves
PACER – 53%, PAGER – 58%, PARER – #454 – 41%, PAVER – 53%.
Most likely candidate was PAGER, but what if it wasn’t PAGER? Then, I only rule out the G.
I needed a word to rule out all the letters in position 3.
PARER was still a possibility even know it isn’t a first year REPEAT; so, I settled on CARGO, because it plays R3, C, G. (O is just a bonus rule out. )
CARGO gave me the G.
I hope the hard mode people survived.
I had to play 2 burners for this one!
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Mt Doom explodes after the ring of power falls into the lava.
Mt Doom explosion – good one!
It was a #@&%#$# !!!
I’m glad you explained your reasoning for CARGO, as it seemed very random to me….
definitely an explosion (of green white & yellow)
Right, words like PARER and RARER (still unplayed OG) are very dangerous words.
The _A_ER pattern has probably led to a lot of people losing Wordle on the days those words appear.
I am not sure how I would play hard mode, but it would probably try to avoid these patterns until I’ve played a ton of consonants. I think that would be the key.
I think a consonant tells you much more information about a word than a vowel.
What do you think?
#CRYPT
That’s a good one.
A lot of high frequency consonants in that word.
R – tier 1
TY – tier 2
CP – tier 3
I agree – hence my playing single vowel/4 consonant words for a while ……
I find a floating E quite challenging – especially in position 5
Wordle 1,920 3/6
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 Saner
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ Empty
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Pager
Jeb, thank you for informing us about the significance of each day. I remember reading all the Tolkien novels I could find during summer vacation, on a hammock in the backyard, next to a blooming rose bush. 🌹
Today also would have been my mom’s birthday. She was born in 1943. ❤️
Jeb, would you please fix my typo?
I was looking in your perfectly spelled writing.
Then I spotted it. Payer > Pager.
My mother also would have been 83 this year.
She and I actually also lived in Maryland for a time when I was young.
Took a trip to DC with my children many years back and would occasionally just stare off in a daze at something familiar from my own childhood. … Cascading waterfall at the National Museum of Art cafe, totally zoned out there.
Wordle 1,920 6/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ SCION
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 LATER
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 PAYER
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 PAPER
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 PAVER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
Mr. T trapped between the pillars of Hercules finally breaks through! Mighty rough sea of greens! My 1042 streak was still at risk to the end! Got panicky when paver failed. Fourth guess I thought was good time for a medium risk repeat, but nooo! Guess it’s a good day to not leave the house!
Lovely visual, Jack k
Yes, and quordle, four at a time. Repeats are a necessity, as you can imagine…
When I played Quordle, I feared words like RARER, RAWER, RAVER, PAVER , PARER and PAPER.
I think they played PAPER quite a bit.
The best part of quordle for me was learning words with more than four letters, of which I was already quite proficient with using! Ha!
In the end, I always played the same 4 words. CRAMP, FLINT, BUDGE, SHOWY. Sometimes, I mixed up the order and quite often only had to play 3 of them.
Wordle 1,920 3/6
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ cleat 193
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 arose 40
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 pager
WordleBot
Skill 78/99
Luck 47/99
Decided after cleat I would play it the same as the recent wager day. I turned on knowledge of past solutions for the bot. It answered that its solution was calculated on July 5th and doesn’t have knowledge of more recent wordles. What? 🤔 It solved in 4.
The Bot is mysterious.
Obviously it needs to be powered by AI to calculate past July 5th
Wordle 1,920 6/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ STEAL 184
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 CADRE 22
🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ RAVEN 15
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 PAPER 3
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 PAYER 2
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
The *A E* pillars of doom strike again!
Outsmarting the outsmarting TB and her surrogates are starting to impinge on our fun. Luck seems to be weighted more than strategy some days.
Good thing we have our FF community!
I couldn’t agree more! The threat of repeats is like adding ten numbers to the lottery! When my current streak ends I might go back to playing octowordle. At least I didn’t take it nearly as seriously. More like a warm-up before taking the mound for my daily wordle…
Octowordle!? Playing 8 Wordles at a time?
Yes, and quordle, four at a time. Repeats are a necessity, as you can imagine…
Wordle 1
Dordle 2
Quordle 4
Octordle 8
Sedecordle 16 words at the same time!
We use them as tie breakers for our daily family wordle battle.
Wordle 1,920 3/6
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛TILES
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩MOWER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩PAGER
I am wondering how many of the “kids” know what a pager is 🤣
But just in case
Dordle 3&5/7
I have never played OCTORDLE or SEDECORDLE.
My winning percentage on QUORDLE is not as good as WORDLE, but, at times, I thought it was easier than WORDLE.
How do you guys find these other games? Are they more or less challenging?
🙋♂️
🤔 just curious…was there a rosin bag and spike cleaner also involved in this daily ritual? 😉😎
No, I wore gloves and went barefoot, though a ball washer and caddie woudda been helpful! Ha!
You really have to ignore the REPEATs. They only happen 10% of the time.
Play like you did before 2/2/26, and if it’s a REPEAT, it might be a 4 or 5 for you on that day.
ADD’s are more of a problem if you track them. If you don’t track the OG (2315) list, then it’s probably not a problem for you (ironically).
You survived! Well done.
Agreed. It’s better to be lucky than good.
I haven’t been that lucky lately.
Wordle 1,920 5/6
🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ adieu
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 baker
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 pacer
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 payer
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 pager
I’m two days late and one leg short, but here’s a favorite Pirate Joke on my site GraphicJoke!
(Jonathan Livingston Seagull co-stars.)
Thanks for posting this joke, Jeb. My father used to tell it with a Yiddish pirate accent (think about that!) and it always got a big laugh. Nice memories.
I wondered if this was the first time “Yiddish pirate accent” was ever written on the Internet. I looked up “Yiddish pirate accent” on Google with the quotes, and nothing came up, so this may be a day for the record books!
Wow!!
That’s pretty cool.
I did the same test. No entries, yet Google AI offered a Reddit reference:
“A Yiddish Pirate Accent is a comedic, theatrical blend of a classic 1950s West Country British pirate voice (the classic “Ahoy, matey! Arrr!”) mixed with the inflections, syntax, and vocabulary of Eastern European Yiddish or Yinglish.” 🤔
I’m going to pin this and see if Google indexes this thread at some point. 📌
I’ve had plenty of Google AI responses that linked a source that did not support its claim at all, so I suspect that may have been the case here!
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1141465234812060
You spelled his name wrong.
Fixed.
Thank you.
The world is back in balance. But mainly because of the equinox.
AARGH! Thanks for the joke and the reminder that I forgot to use AARGH as my starter on talk like pirate day! AARGH!
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨Slate… 15.og/8+
🟨🟩⬛🟩🟩Gayer…+pager or +rager
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Pager (obsolete)
🥳🎈🎊🎉 Off to celebrate getting older. 🎂🎁🥳
Happy birthday! 🥳
Pager (obsolete). Had to think about that. True!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Great solve in 3! Good thing you played the G on guess 2!
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, EZ cousin!
Hope your celebration is awesome!
Christine A happy birthday.
Enjoy your next trip around the sun !
🙋♂️
uhh, did you say rager…🤔 i mentioned one in my post today. soooo, that was a bday bash for you??? totally awesome and totally gnarly, dude! 🌊🏄🤙
🥳 happy birdy on your birdday!
🎉woohoo!🎉
Wordle 1920 5/6
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 AROSE 92
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 CAVER 33
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 TAMER 20
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 PAPER 4 #35
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
Wordle 1,920 3/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 CUTIE
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 ALONG
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
Was looking at 3 NU words for 3rd guess – Gayer and Gazer (both on 2315 list) and Pager (not on the list).
Good guess!
Wordle 1,920 3/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨slate
🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜raven
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩pager
Wordle 1,920 3/6
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨SLATE
⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛NAKED
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩PAGER
Wordle 1,920 5/6*
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 arose
🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛ raven
⬛🟩🟨🟩🟩 taper it shredded paper
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 payer hate 4s anyway, still not a sure thing
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 aah, relief
Wordle 1,920 3/6
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ STEAL
🟨🟨⬛🟩⬛ Apnea
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
HMMM, another E A to figure out
Wordle 1,920 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ SNAIL 322 wl
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ACTOR 24 wl
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 RADAR 14 wl
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
WordleBot
Skill 81/99
Luck 40/99
🙏
Prof. Mike’s Word of the Week; chosen by HD, RN
I thought of 16 words after ACTOR, obviously not the same as WordleBot’s 14. As I am trying to use words that have not been solutions, there were seven left that ended in ER. RADAR placed the two known letters and limited them to one each. Now to deal with the pillars. PAGER eliminated GAZER and GAPER and seemed the most likely. If this had been a repeat day, PAPER is (PU #35).
Good ☀️/🌃 to all!
Curious why you and others didn’t choose to use another R, C, V, Y or N?
And instead picked the G?
I actually considered rarer but for the fact it would be a complete throwaway turn if not a solve plus being a rare triple letter word. My c was eliminated early and my y & v were duds.
Ps- I actually missed figuring the g in play until the end. Luckily there were few options remaining by then.
Wordle 1,920 2/6
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨arose
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩pager
After arose I had 16 NU possibilities. I spent a long time trying to figure out a 2nd guess that would guarantee a 3. I decided a 3 wasn’t worth the effort and that pager would likely get me there in 4 (barring a PU). Wow, did I luck out!
You did great!!👏👏👏
fun when that happens
Nice!
🦅✨🥳
2:44 a.m. Eastern. You did spend a long time! 💤
🥳🤩
Great!
Congrats!
Wordle 1,920 3/6
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ STEAL 184
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 CADRE 22
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PAGER
Started with 2 standard guesses.
Of 22 left only had 6 NU that fit from my list.
HAREM seems a little too non-woke for NYT.
PACER reminds me of an Indiana 🏀 player.
RAGER, RAVER and FAKER perhaps too casual.
PAGER just felt like a nice SOLID object to GUESS (albeit a little DATED).
Yeah, I don’t bother with percentages. Once I have a nice little list going it becomes either gut feel or alphabetical if my gut is silent
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 AROSE
🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛ REACT pu
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 PALER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Luckier than some.
had a vibe for a pu today – not so……
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 COUPE nu
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 WHELP pu
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ REPAY pu
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 PAVER nu (zigged when i shoulda zagged)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
[tornado gathering force]
Congrats on the 5 in spite of the zig!
This one was tough for me today too. (5).
Wordle 1,920 6/6*
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ AUDIO
🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜PLEAS
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩PACER
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩PAPER
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩PAVER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩PAGER
A bit of luck and a phew!
Words ending with ER are always challenging.
Interesting. PAPER is PU, and I don’t have PAVER on my list and wondering if I ruled it out as a possible answer previously or if it’s just an oversight on my part
I didn’t have PAVER on my list, as well. It’s an add or will be, I guess. WB- 53%
I know you just mentioned you don’t bother with percentages. But 53% tells me PAVER is a real possibility.
Phew 😮💨
Glad you survived!
Wordle 1,920 6/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ QUASI 544
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ OAKEN 109
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 PALER 6 nu
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 PAYER 5 nu
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 PAPER 4 #35
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 58%
Such a well of doom!
I kept thinking surely this is it.
Ended up being pared down to PAGER ADD or PARER #454.
Like the symmetry though.
Such a contrast to my yesterday’s one yellow to green flash. Such are the fortunes of Wordle.
I didn’t have PALER and PAYER on my list, which is surprising since you show them as NU. I have some updates to do, which will make my next A/E combo decision tougher
Yes to the symmetry. Sun rising over the city ☀️
Ooh pretty image!
Your grid art looks like the sun shining all the way down to the bottom of a well.
“At noon on the summer solstice, there were still shadows in Alexandria. However, in Syene, rods cast no shadows, and the Sun’s rays shone straight down into the city-center well.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes
That sort of idea did cross my mind.
Thanks for the reference
‘The Equinox’