STINK (repeat) 🦨♻️🥃🍋🟩International Gin and Tonic Day
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#1948 MON 10/19/2026
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.
111 responses to “#1948 MON 10/19/2026”
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Wordle 1,948 4/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ FLUID -NU
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ORATE -NU
🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ TWIXT -NU (good word using the infrequent X)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STINK -PUSo the solve was another frequently used S word over good NU words …stinks!
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I wonder why the letter “S” is so popular. Maybe it has to do with our teeth.
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Pronunciation Practice!
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Wordle 1,948 3/6
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟨 SLANT
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 STUNK
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STINKWordleBot
Skill 86/99
Luck 80/99========================
Grid art: side view of a couple STINKy toilets.
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You’re a foul one, Mr. Grinch.
You’re a nasty wasty skunk!
Your heart is full of unwashed socks,
Your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Grinch.The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote:
“Stink! Stank! Stunk!”
😉👻😈
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⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ LURCH
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ PANSY
🟩🟨🟩⬛⬛ SNIFF
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STINKWould sniff be too seasonal to do in fall/winter? Either way, another NU robbed by a repeat.
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🤨 yeah, yeah, thas it! i seen it wit my own iiiii’s! gnu was robbed i tell ya, robbed!
🤷♂️😉 😎🤯
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REPEAT Clusters. (after losing FOCUS! LOL.)
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*Not sure if this is significant, but it’s interesting.Cluster 1 (Word – Puzzle #) (6 words)
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CIGAR – 0
AWAKE – 4
STINK – 14
GRADE – 15
FEIGN – 19
MAJOR – 20Cluster 2 (Word – Puzzle #) (7 words)
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LINEN – 51
FORTH – 55
STAND – 57
IVORY – 59
STOUT – 65
FLUME – 68
AGREE – 70Cluster 3 (Word – Puzzle #) (3 words)
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THUMB – 115
COMET – 122
CLICK – 134Cluster 4 (Word – Puzzle #) (8 words)
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CLOCK – 160
PROVE – 163
BRING – 164
BREAK – 172
TRACE – 179
BATON – 183
GRIPE – 187
ACUTE – 190Words higher than #200 (and #236)
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FOCUS – 267
SQUAD – 296
SMILE – 830
SANDY – 1226==========================================
Maybe #364 isn’t the critcal watermark. Maybe, it’s simply #200.What do you guys think?
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Clusters 1-3 are within 20 puzzles.
Cluster 4 is within 30 puzzles.
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Are these clusters correlated with their repeat#?
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I only listed the original puzzle number.
I can relist it with the second puzzle number if you want.
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I STUCK a rotten ROAST in the oven and it made a big STINK.
Wordle 1,948 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ROAST 40
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 STUCK 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STINK 🦨♻️WordleBot
Skill 82/99
Luck 80/99-
Had a gin & tonic with my sister yesterday in honor of Dad (last week was five years since his rather sudden death). It was his favorite drink and we had them every Sunday when we got together for dinner and cards. Cheers, Dad! 🥃 🍋🟩
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🍸 Thinking of you Kim on the 5th anniversary. That’s really quite wonderful to have had every Sunday together for dinner and cards and 🥃🍋🟩 and to have a sister with whom to honor him.
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Wordle 1,948 3/6*
🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨SLEPT (43)
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩STUCK (4)
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REPEAT Clusters.
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*Not sure if this is significant, but it’s interesting.Cluster 1 (Word – Puzzle #) (5 words)
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CIGAR – 0
AWAKE – 4
STINK – 14
GRADE – 15
FEIGN – 19Cluster 2 (Word – Puzzle #) (6 words)
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LINEN – 51
STAND – 57
IVORY – 59
STOUT – 65
FLUME – 68
AGREE – 70Cluster 3 (Word – Puzzle #) (3 words)
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THUMB – 115
COMET – 122
CLICK – 134Cluster 4 (Word – Puzzle #) (7 words)
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CLOCK – 160
BRING – 164
BREAK – 172
TRACE – 179
BATON – 183
GRIPE – 187
ACUTE – 190Words higher than #200 (and #236)
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SQUAD – 296
SMILE – 830
SANDY – 1226==========================================
Maybe #364 isn’t the critcal watermark. Maybe, it’s simply #200.What do you guys think?
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MAJOR – 20 is missing from Cluster 1.
FORTH – 55 is missing from Cluster 2.
PROVE – 163 is missing from Cluster 4.
FOCUS – 267 is missing from the Words higher than #200 list.
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Short Term Odds for 1YRs and ADDs.
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1YRs – 9.1%
ADDs – 36.4%Long Term Averages.
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1YRs – 10.4%
ADDs – 34.3%JD Target Numbers
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1YRs – 10.5%
ADDs – 34.5%
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4 today, tying the Bot…
Wordle 1,948 4/6🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ SAUCE
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨 SHIRT
🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ SPITZ
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STINKShouldn’t have used spitz…I did have a dog named Spitzi…
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SPITZ isn’t on the Weighted Bottles list.
Same reason why I didn’t play SKINK or SWINK.
All 3 are on the playable words list.
Weighted Bottles List
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https://wordletools.azurewebsites.net/weightedbottles?SortOrder=ByWeight&submit=Submit
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Wordle 1,948 3/6*
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ paste
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨 first
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Wordle 1,948 2/6*
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ STILE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STINKWordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 90/99
NYT AVG. 3.6Three letters in the first word was a huge boost!
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Wahoo!
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👍 nice deuce. you clearly picked the correct turn.stile to walk through. 😉
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Nice twofer! 🦅
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Congrats!
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Oh yeah 👍
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🐝🐝 twobee for youbee doobee doobee doo
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⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ AROSE
⬜🟨🟩🟨⬜ UNITY
🟩🟨🟩🟩🟨 SKINT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STINKA ROSE symbolises UNITY and love, especially for the SKINT. But there is a STING in today’s STINT, and it STINKs
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Wordle 1,948 3/6
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ Trail
🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ Scone
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 StinkTrail and Scone led to 3 PU words. Stink was the only one from ‘21. Celebrating with a 2nd cup of tea and a pumpkin cookie. 🙂
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🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛Slate🙄…🤖43🥸23
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨Prion…2… 🦨or🐝
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Stink@🦨📜 By Order of the NYT Inquisition: A Dire Trigger Warning!
Avert thine eyes, Wordlers, lest ye perish from a foul word.
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🙏 thank you thank you for the psa!
🤔 so i tried playin’ today with my eyes closed…can’t say it went real well. 🤷♂️😉
😎🤯
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Wordle 1,948 3/6
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ RAISE
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 SLINK
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STINKRAISE leaves 9 OG NU, 1 ADD, and 6 1YRs.
SLINK gives me a 3 in all but SCION and SNIFF.
SLINK rules out OG NU and leaves only STINK #14.
SKINK and SWINK aren’t listed on Weighted Bottles at all. I don’t even know they are playable words.
That takes care of the 1YR! LOL.
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A gin & tonic sits at the bar waiting for the drunk to return from the restroom.-
Sounds like the start of a joke!
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It does ! 😂
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Wordle 1,948 4/6*
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ TREAD
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 CLOUT
⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ MISTY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STINK[Sunset on Rip Van Winkle]
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Wordle 1,948 3/6
🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ Saner
🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 Thick
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Stink -
Wordle 1,948 3/6
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ raise
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 stick
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 stink-
re your 2nd choice
What’s brown and sticky? A – – – – –
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Wordle 1,948 3/6
🟧🟧⬛⬛⬛
🟧🟧⬛⬛🟧
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧STEAL left 24 possible, but only 3 unused: STOOP, STUCK, STUNK. The second one left only STINK (14), STORK (1508). REPEAT.
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Wordle 1,948 4/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 cleat 124
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 torus 10
🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ sixty 3
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 stinkWordleBot
Skill 94/99
Luck 34/99For sixty the bot gave me a skill rating of 92 and luck 15. About sums it up. I picked the nu over the repeat.
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You played it the right way.
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Thanks. I thought you might think so ☀️ nice three today 👍
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Thank you!
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Christine and EZ asked about device usage of Five Forks Wordle. From Google Analytics:
Platform / device category Active users Total 37,753 (100%) 1. web / mobile 23,001 (60.92%) 2. web / desktop 13,703 (36.3%) 3. web / tablet 1,279 (3.39%) 4. web / smart tv 1 (<0.01%) -
I use my cell phone for my initial post and some replies. I also use my laptop for other replies.
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That’s how I do it. (responding on the pc here).
I do the puzzle on the phone; so, I have to do the initial posting from there to copy the pattern results.
It’s PITA, because I am not a fast texter.
On a computer with a keyboard, I can touch type; so, it’s much easier.
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i am speculatin’ that you don’t have the granular ability to split off the 🥳 ap commentin’ contingent, n’est-ce pas?-
🙋🏻♀️ If Jeb could go granular, I am speculatin’ tablet for the win…
🤔Weight wut? There are 37.7k unique users? 🤯
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I was responsible for large corporate websites before (and really after) I retired. We would have loved the amount of traffic Five Forks Wordle gets every day! Wordle is NYT’s number one game site by far.
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Impressive!
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https://fivephones.com is already taken. Rats.
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After Party visitors:
75% desktop
24% mobile
1% tabletAfter Party players bring a lot of tools.
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whoa dang! that desktop number surprises me.🤔 that wood 🪵 ‘splain the deep statistical analysis we do rite h’yar at the five forks tribal camp 🌲🎪🏕️🔥🖥️🧮🏕️🎪🌲😉
as pour moi…ize gen’ralee 🪽wingin’ it wit my five phones…an’ i get bye wit a littl’ help from my ff.friends 😉🤷♂️🙏
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24%er here. 📱👈
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🤩 You are a superstar, that’s what you are. 🙏
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Hi Jeb,
I always start WORDLE on my phone when I AROSE (arise=pu) early in the morning.
Then I go back under the covers and think about letter combinations and possible second guesses. I fall asleep before I AROSE again.I have breakfast at my laptop, check and update my Excel table for second guesses, tabulate possibilities, and check 5Forks for PUs.
I toggle between my laptop and phone to finish WORDLE, then join the 5Forks’ Wordle After Party on my laptop with a keyboard, typing my contributions and responses in MS Word, then copy and paste them onto your fabulous webpage.
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🙋🏻♀️ Jeb …. Does that count for 2 of the 37K+ if Waiting for a rose has both devices open at the same time?
I know very little about running websites 🥸
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On Five Forks your phone and your iPad would be two different “active users”. Most people come and play and go, so it is not likely too inflated. But the After Party players are next level plus! 😉
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🤔 i actually use five individual phones, one for each column of the board and each of the five forks.
☎️|☎️|☎️|☎️|☎️
📳|📳|📳|📳|📳so no holds and no waiting
…aaaaand bonus, 👍 one is a direct hotline to tb…sooo if you have any special messages to deliver jus’ lemme know. 😉👻
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I use a laptop. Are laptops included with desktops?
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Yes, a laptop falls into desktop. Has more to do with the Mac / Windows / Linux screen desktop, I guess.
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Wordle 1,948 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 LEAST
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ STOMP
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 STUCK
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Wordle 1,948 3/6*
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ STEAL 25
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 STUCK 2
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STINKFor round 2 I concluded I had 6 possible choices (2 were PUs). Almost chose STRUM.
Happy crisp (37 degrees) October day for those of you in the cooler climates. 🍁🍂🎃
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whelp…jes tried ta spen’da night in da ol’ cabin down by da crick. dem leaves is turnin’ dem fancy colors an’ ain’t too cold out jes yet. but when ize jimmied ope’da door an’ went in.got a nastee sour smell…whoowee! a reel stink’r. 😬😶🤷♂️
ain’t no way billy ray dat ize sleepin’ in dar wid dat. sooo i rigg’d up ma hamm’ck in da trees…upwin’ a’ways fo’ sho’…an’ dat wuz dat. jes me an’ dem trees…an da moon an’ stars. 🌙🌌
g’night irene!🍁🍂🌳\_🛌_/🌳🥱😴
Wordle 1,948 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 cabin
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ingot
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 stink-
\_🛌_/ <- Nice!
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Wordle 1,948 4/6
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜slate
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨shirt og58%
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩stick Chose #14, typed the wrong letter. Ugh.
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩That really stinks.-
That really does stink. Bummer.
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bummer! I hate typos!
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Wordle 1,948 3/6
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛SLATE 43
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ROUND 3
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Wordle 1,948 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ AROSE
🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜ SILKY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STINK, due for a PU-
I like that:
previously used
PU
pee-yoo 🦨
Stink-
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😎🤯 funny you bring that up. was lookin’ in to knittin’ pu into my yarn. when i looked it up to check what the actual acronym is i discovered it ain’t…🤔 and that led me to onomatopoeia…now there’s a word we don’t get to use very often. 😉🤷♂️
who gnu???
“P.U. (or PU) does not officially stand for an abbreviation when used to describe a bad smell. Instead, it is an onomatopoeic interjection that evolved from early 17th-century expressions like “pew” or “peugh” used to show disgust at a foul odor.”
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I had taken a mental note of that months ago.
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Wordle 1,948 5/6*
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ arose
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟨 spilt
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ stimy looking for a curve from TB
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩 stick not a fastball either
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 that sums it up-
summed it up for me too Paul !!
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Wordle 1,948 3/6
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ STEAL
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 STUCK
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STINKThat was exciting and I matched Charles!
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Congrats! And I matched you both too!
Did you both get that “excited” feeling when the ST turned green?
Twas not today!
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Wordle 1,948 3/6*
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ AROSE
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟨 SPILT left 5
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 oldest pu #14Just about time for a repeat.
It’s been lying there
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩ing since the end of the very first fortnight.
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Because CIGAR was #0, #14 was the beginning of the 2nd fortnight. Throws everything off.
Your version is more poetic!
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Aha! Yes! I overlooked that. Just as the first year of the first millennium was 0 AD. I also used that Brit word for “a two week period” without so much as a passing thought.
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Wordle 1,948 4/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜arose
🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜silky
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩slink
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩stink
Waah, I want a do-over! Should have had it in 3 but I only had one NU left and looked right past the fact that there wasn’t an “L”.-
We should lobby for an undo button 😄
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If people had that, they would just keep undoing until they get it in one guess.
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Then we could count how many undo’s they use!
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I call those “unforced errors” like in tennis.
It has happened to me before.
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I like that analogy. I suggest it’s happened to most of us, including me several times 😅
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Wordle 1,948 3/6
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ STEAL 25
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 STUCK 2
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STINK (PU 14)2 remained were both PU. Chose the much older one over STORK.
Birdie
Sea O’ Greens
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Wordle 1948 2/6
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ SAUCE 85
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STINK #14
☘️☘️🎲 🎲-
Using PU words for second guess paid off!
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Wonderful!
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Yay! 🥳🥈☀️
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Way to go MAYOR!
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🐝🐝 two-bee or not two-bee? Yes, two-bee. For you-bee. Awesomesauce Jeb!
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Congrats!
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🧙♂️🪄💥 nice deuce o’ wizard of the forks five!
🙋♂️ allow me to re-pete that…
🧙♂️🪄💥 nice deuce o’ wizard of the forks five!
🧙♂️🪄💥 nice deuce o’ wizard of the forks five!
🧙♂️🪄💥 nice deuce o’ wizard of the forks five!
🧙♂️🪄💥 nice deuce o’ wizard of the forks five!🤔 methinks this may be how the sorcerer’s apprentice got started. 🤷♂️😉
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Oh Yeah ! way to go Jebmeister 💚👍
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Big Al mentioned he turns off the “email me” checkbox, but keeps getting email notifications about replies, and Christine agreed she doesn’t need them because the “New” counts and yellow highlights help with all of that.
But Meg likes the notifications. So…
I made a modification that will “remember” your last selection (do or don’t email me about replies) and that becomes your default until you change it.
Hope that helps!
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Thanks jeb.
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Jeb thank you, I do like it on.
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I like it too.
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It does.
BTW, I like the emails because it gives me a shortcut to FF site from my emails.
I just need to remember to navigate to the current day prior to posting.
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🙏you are so kind 😊
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Wordle 1,948 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ AUDIO (1,387)
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ PRISE (82)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STINKWow!
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G ‘n’ T ….
Ooh yeah!! 🥴 got totally munted on this many a time in days gone by⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ DOUSE (+)
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ SCALP (nu) not one I use but it popped into my head..so…
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨 SWIFT (nu)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ STIMY (+) more commonly stymie
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩[the decline…]
from the sublime to the ridiculous…. & I had an inkling of an early repeat…but resisted
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Not so early for the 1YR.
It’s been 10 days since MAJOR 10/9/26.
It’s about right on schedule (average number of days)
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True – I’d seen an 8 on the FF days-since meter…… 🤔
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Seriously, ignore that meter.
Every day the odds are 1 in 10.
If you guess a 1YR on the day that it doesn’t happen, you’ve just added a guess to your total automatically.
I just go for the OG NU and let the rest happen organically.
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I’m with you on that.
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Wordle 1,948 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 QUASI 109
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨 SWIFT 8
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩This is the sixth day my start word has let me score under par
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Nice one – its all about the 2nd word you choose, huh.. (and 3rd…) 👍
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