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#1946 SAT 10/17/2026
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.
92 responses to “#1946 SAT 10/17/2026”
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Wordle 1,946 3/6
⬛⬛🟦🟦⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧STEAL, RINDY left 20 possible, but only 2 unused: GAFFE, MECCA
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Wordle 1,946 4/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ SLANT
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 CADRE
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 WAIVE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFEWordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 42/99===================================
Grid art: the sun is WAIVEd from its responsibilities as it sets over a valley for the night.
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It’s been a bit since I bogeyed. Apropos it was on GAFFE. 😒
Wordle 1,946 5/6*
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ABODE 114
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 SAUCE 16
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 WAIVE 11
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 MANGE 2
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFE 🤦🏻♀️WordleBot
Skill 82/99
Luck 53/99-
I can’t believe it!
Is this still Kim “Deuces” Wild?
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Wordle 1,946 5/6
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ STEAL 184
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 CADRE 11
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 MANGE 3
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 VAGUE 1 (PU)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFE4th GUESS was a GAFFE, which wasn’t on my RADAR so BOGEY it is
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Wordle 1,946 3/6*
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ TREAD
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 BLASE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFE[Grampa Makes a Sandwich]
When I have to scroll through a lot of previously used words I tend to lose patience and go with the first thing I can think of. Lucked out today.
… … … …October Movie Marathon
Friday: Double Feature …
(Was aiming for The Machines Rise,
ended up with …)
The OddballsMaximum Overdrive (1986)
– The earth is going to be in a comet’s tail for over week. So of course all the machines come alive and very inefficiently try to kill all humans … with particular focus on a truck stop gas station where the trucks mostly drive around in circles.IMDB: 5.4/10
Letterboxd: 2.5/5
RottenTomatoes: 14%/50%
Mike S: A: 5, B: 5.5Recommend? Meh. If you’re a Steven King completionist, sure. This is an oddball because it’s the only movie King directed. He made it at the height of his cocaine addiction. The poor decisionmaking is evident.
If you want a tense standoff with a truck, this ain’t it. Try Duel (1972) instead, written by Richard Matheson and the first feature movie Steven Spielberg’s directed.
… … …Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982)
– Something nefarious is happening in a small town that’s completely run by the owner of the town’s factory, … a Halloween mask manufacturer? … Wait, where’s Michael Myers?IMDB: 5.2/10
Letterboxd: 2.8/5
RottenTomatoes: 51%/31%
Mike S: A: 5.5, B: 6Recommend? Also kinda meh. It’s an interesting and unique idea, but not for this format. This is an oddball because it’s the only one in the series that does what John Carpenter wanted to do after the success of the first movie, turn it into an anthology franchise. And that’s why it falters. The story is better suited to an hour long Tales From the Crypt, or even Twilight Zone episode. In movie form the story drags too much.
If you like the weirdness of Tales From the Crypt stories and appreciate a good unsatisfying conclusion, you might like this little piece of Halloween candy.
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Will skip these per your ratings. Though, I probably have seen all of the Halloween movies, the good or the bad or the even worse.
I might be somewhat alone in this, but I adored “Scary Stories to tell in the Dark” giving it a 10/10 though other IMDbers gave it 6.2 average.
And, sign me up for Creepshow, Tales from the Crypt, Twilight zone, Hammer horror shows. Many are really good and the ones that aren’t, well at least they’re short.
🐋Went to a real movie theater last night and saw Whalefall. Have you seen, yet? It seems like something you *might* like. 🤷🏻♀️ I gave it a 7/10 in my IMDb account (more like 6.5 but rounded up).
Looking forward to your next installment…
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Thanks, Christine!
I haven’t seen Whalefall. It looks intriguing. I’ll have to keep my eyes open for it when it comes out to streaming or physical media.
We’ve been getting to the movie theater about once a month or so. I went out to the MST3K: RiffTrax Experiments riffing of The Sting of Death (1966) in September. Before that we saw Spider-Man, and before that The Odyssey.
My wife is hoping to see the new Sense & Sensibility in a theater, being a fan of Jane Austen. And a lot of our family is looking forward to Godzilla Minus Zero.
Not sure what else is on our radar. I’m a big fan of A Christmas Carol as an immensely retellable story. But, even though I’ve liked a lot of Johnny Depp ‘s work all the way up to Jack Sparrow, I’m not sure I’m motivated enough by the trailer to see his take on Scrooge in a theater.
It’s just so expensive to go to a theater. $50 for 2 people to see one movie is just too much. Their price structure is designed to make all their money when a blockbuster comes by. For now that lets them put up with the smaller movies only filling four or five seats a showing. … I’m cheap. I miss the dollar theaters. 😁
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I started watching Plan 9 last night BTW.
Then, my wife wanted to watch a Netflix thing on Martin Scorsese.
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Cool!
Can your heart handle the shocking truth … ! 😁
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Great grid art again!
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Thanks!
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Wordle 1,946 3/6*
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 STILE
🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 GROPE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFEWordleBot
Skill 96/99
Luck 64/99
NYT AVG. 4.3Now that’s more like it!
FWIW, GROPE was also previously unused.
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Wordle 1,946 3/6
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ Cleat
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Rosin
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GaffeCleat, Rosin led to 2 NU words: Gaffe and Payee. I did a deep dive into what is presented as the “hidden expanded word list” at GitHub.com. Math is not my strong point, but I found that 152 words start with G of which 24 start with GA. For P: 208 words of which 39 start with PA. However, there have been 5 answers containing P so far this month and zero containing G. The last Wordle answer that began with G was Grill on 8/29/26. I have no idea if Miss Bennett and her team look at any of these variables, but I’m happy they led me to a 3. 🙂
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It’s brave to play a FF word when you don’t have one already.
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🇺🇳U.N. Eradicate Poverty Day
Global poverty at a glance (while living in the belly of the beast.)*
10% live below $3/day
52% live below $10/day
80% live below $30/day😳
*Global Data for 2026, adjusted for inflation and living costs across countries
https://ourworldindata.org/tracking-how-many-people-live-on-less-than-3-10-or-30-a-day
@CtBS(iezm)
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Thank you for bringing us those stats. It’s a problem I wish we could solve. But knowledge is the first step.
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🙏 Thanks Least… I couldn’t not pay heed to this one since I worked in this field (international poverty) for a decade.
📢 Shout out to Jeb for giving us daily calendar happenings. There is a nice mixture of fun, poignant, silly, obscure, serious, international.
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Wordle 1,946 3/6*
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 AROSE left 52
🟩⬛🟨⬛🟩 GLACÉ left 3
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Improving . . .-
Well done!
We octogenarians are doing ok.-
Thanks, young ‘un! It helps to keep the grey matter working.
My friend I play against daily (my “life-twin”) is a mere 80 and had beaten me 3-4 for three days in a row, so I had to raise my game. More thinking, less LUNGE-ing.
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⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩Slate… 🤖38..🥸14
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛Groin… 🤖3..🥸1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩GaffeA hit to the groin?
Nope. My words I do stand by.
Truth not gaffe TB.After SLATE… w/⬆️probability:
7 OG: adobe afire anime gaffe mange payee waive
4 ♻️ adobe argue badge farce gauze
1 ➕ cadre🙋🏻♀️I really wanted BADGE so JD could say we don’t need no stinkin’ badges 🎖️. Or kralc could write a story about a badge(r)🦡 that he mistook for a “y eye otter” 🦦. Or Kim 👮🏼 could flash her grammar police badge. Alas, gaffe ‘twas the star of the day. ⭐️ Badge will have its day in the spotlight. Just not today.
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🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ FLEET
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFEHave started with gaffe before once.
For some reason despite many -ED words being excluded, FREED is on the og list. Along with FREER. Those will be fun
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🐝🐝 twobee! 🦅 Eagle! 🦷Toofer!
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Congrats!
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Nice 2, especially with a word like today!
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Wordle 1,946 3/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ TORUS
🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜ FECAL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFEI’ve been putting TORUS first for a while. FECAL is what I put when TORUS is all grays. It’s gross but it does the job…
There’s the Kate Bush song, Suspended in Gaffa. Is gaffa like gaffe?
“One donut a day and everything’s gonna be okay…”
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Wordle 1,946 3/6
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ STEAL
🟩⬛🟨⬛🟩 GRAZE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFE -
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 AROSE
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ GUPPY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFEThe GUPPY flushed out GAFFE and GABLE. I made no mistake about that.
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I am happy with my 3 today…
Wordle 1,946 3/6⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 SAUCE
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 GABLE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFEBoth gable and waive looked good to me. I am glad I went with gable as there was only one word left…
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Nice! Waive is on my radar too.
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And mine – but I used BAIZE instead – would’ve yeilded same result.
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Wordle 1,946 3/6
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 raise
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 gadge
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🤷♂️ wull geez, mildred, i did. a’fore you came in.got out to have a look at dat hedge. ain’t nothin’ ’bout it dat cain’t be fix’d.
i know ize a gaffer an’ slow as moelassis but shoot, ize still breathin’, got me two hands and dem clippers.🤔gunna git’er dun, reel soon…yep, 🥱 prolly rite aft’r my nap. 😴🛌_____
😉😎🤯Wordle 1,946 3/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ingot
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 hedge
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 gaffe-
❤️
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Wordle 1,946 4/6*
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ LEAST
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ CAPED
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 MANGE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFE -
Wordle 1,946 3/6
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 RAISE
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ TANGY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFERAISE leaves GAFFE, HAUTE, MANGE, PAYEE.
I couldn’t bring up my spreadsheet on my phone. So, I just worked with this.
TANGY plays letters in all 4 words.
Matches the G in GAFFE.
Lucky for me. It wasn’t an ADD today.
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Not sure what this looks like. I’ll come back later.
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Well played with tangy! I thought about using a burner word, but my e wasn’t confirmed until attempt 2 so decided against it. Got lucky.
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Thanks!
If it was an ADD or 1YR, at least I would have ruled out all the OG NUs probably.
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I don’t think there were any 1YRs left either!
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I was able to glean at my spreadsheet later on.
ADDs
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CADGE – 54%
CALVE – 53%
GABLE – 57%
LATKE – 56%IYRs
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BADGE #321
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Wordle 1,946 4/6
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ cleat 193
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 arose 20
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 mange 3
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 gaffeWordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 38/99I was cheering for the arosers today! But, alas we wait for another day. After that I had evade #7 and gnus gaffe mange payee waive. Happy to survive with a 4 after briefly getting my 14 day average up to 3.3. Sigh.
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Wordle 1,946 3/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ OPTIC
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 ABUSE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFEBroken car headlight.
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Nice song!!
The comments below this…you guys crack me up!
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“Popeye!” … *hits roof inside car*
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Sadly, when I hear broken car headlight. I think of the movie Porky’s.
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Sadly, I think of trying to talk myself out of a ticket for just a warning.
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With your feminine wiles, I bet you got out of a few.
For me, they just start writing the ticket.
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hit a twobee !!!
GRAZE
GAFFE
choice between gable or gaffe-
Yay! 🥳🥈🤩
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very cool!
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Nice!
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🐝🐝 for you-bee!! Woot!
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Congrats!
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⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ STERN
🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩 GLIDE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFEI’m noticing this one bumps GAMER from the top of the Gs.
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Good spot. The GAMER is down. Long live the GAFFE!
Welcome to the After Party Mike!
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Wordle 1,946 3/6
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ Saner
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ Fluid
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GaffeSaner narrowed the possibilities to four unused words. Fluid narrowed it to just one.
Today is a good day to eradicate poverty:
https://www.un.org/en/observances/day-for-eradicating-poverty-
Yes it is! And, well played ☀️
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Wordle 1946 4/6
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ADIEU 223
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜SLATESTEAL 37
⬜🟩⬜🟥⬜ PAVER 5
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFE-
Your second word doesn’t match its boxes.
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Good eye. My sister caught me, too. STEAL not SLATE.
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Wordle 1,946 6/6
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 SLATE 38
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 CANOE 13
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 WAIVE 9 nu
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 PAYEE 6 nu
⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩 BADGE 2 pu
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩GAFFE nuwas getting desperate 😥😥😬
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😮💨💨 PHEW!!! You were going down the ䷀Wells of doom but you made it out alive! Good one! A double bogey is better than a big old X. 👻👻
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Paddling upstream without a canoe. Or however the saying goes 😏
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A win is a win
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Wordle 1,946 4/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩slate
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩cadre
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩mange
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Wordle 1,946 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ STEAL
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ABODE
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 PHAGE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFEThought about using GAUZE or GAUGE first but both were PU.
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Wordle 1,946 5/6*
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 arose so many words left
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 waive goodbye to that one
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 maple had to be patriotic
⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩 badge and still a 50/50, 5s better than 4s and 6s
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Yay for maple leaves. Are they still gorgeous or well past peak?
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still gorgeous
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Wordle 1,946 6/6*
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 CARPE 35 wl
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 SABLE 11 wl
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 HAUTE 5 wl
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 WAIVE 2 wl
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 MANGE 1 wl
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFEWordleBot
Skill 84/99
Luck 33/99
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Prof. Mike’s Word of the Week; CARPE selected from The WhiteList by FreddiA checkmate Nettleton!
Good ☀️/🌃 to all!-
Wonderful. You survived those tall trees “in the Redwood Forest!”
Now let’s see if kralc is able to wade through the “Gulf Stream waters”
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Least was a genius word,
I knew it looked like something! Not really “Pillars of Doom” since I made it out, just barely. 🙂-
Phew!!!! 💨
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pfffft! aint goin’ anywhar neer dee edge a dat one. last time i went fisin’ 🎣🐠🦈 in dat “stream” i wuz dang neer en.gulf’d…🤔 mus be why dey call it dat…biggest dang stream i ever seen. 🌊🌊🌊
😉😎🤯
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😎☺️
Glad you survived to tell the tale (and many more!)
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You survived the pillars of doom
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I find your game interesting! You tried so many consonants. Then the G in Mange brought you home.
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Wordle 1,946 3/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩arose
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩mange
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩gaffe
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nice 3, I took your different route for that 5
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That’s why I played a burner word. TANGY.
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Scoredle 5/6*
14,855
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ AUDIO (2,513)
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 SPALE (77)
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 RANGE (3)
⬜🟩🟨🟥🟩 EAGLE (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GAFFE -
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 DOUSE (+)
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 BAIZE (+)
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟩 MANGE (nu)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 (nu)could be worse than Par !
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Wordle 1,946 3/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ QUASI 544
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ABODE 19
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wow – you did well 👍
I had A + E in correct positions & took 4….. (& could’ve been more) I was tempted to use PAYEE @ 3, as I was getting a double letter vibe, glad I didn’t….-
I could easily have gone with MANGE or PAYEE. Like you chose one of those with a G. Just happened to be the solve.
BAIZE served you well.
ABODE Is my standard after the yellow A as it seems positive.
Being so standardized now I miss the searching in my brain action.-
I search for words more spontaneously in Wordle archives. It still gives me the badges but a loss doesn’t affect my streak.
A bonus from coming late to Wordle.-
I took a hiatus from the game after losing my first streak. So there are several Archive games I haven’t played. Glad it doesn’t wreck the streak of you don’t solve the puzzle.
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Amazing how well QUASI often comes up with the goods as a quirky starter word.
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I do enjoy being QUASI.
Sometimes it is not as QUASI a start as I would have thought.
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