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Sorry everyone…
Did great on the puzzle today; failing at properly posting…
If there’s a way for admin to delete my comment to teelee’s post and my correction to that that was instead it’s *own* new post, please do so.
~sigh~
Wordle 1,792 2/6
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 ROUSE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
The filter was super useful today!
JD
Well done!
Faith W
Oops! Wrong spot for this and IDK how to delete it.
Sorry!
I tentatively entered Mover for my 3rd guess, but then deleted it and went with Mower! Like JD said, “Never change your plan.” According to WordleBot, the Average for today’s puzzle is 4.7.
From AI Overview: “WordleBot calculates the average number of turns required to solve the puzzle for a given answer using an expected-value algorithm. “
Hi there!
Wordle 1,792 4/6
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ OPTIC
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ABUSE
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ FROND
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
Worked too hard to solve this!
40 words after 2nd guess
Screened to 5 not used
Frond was a burner
Left 3 & got lucky w MOVER
Mike S
Wordle 1,792 4/6*
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ TREAD
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 PURSE
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 LONER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
[A Trip To Frank Gehry’s Outhouse]
Donna Schmidt
Wordle 1,792 4/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ adieu
🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ roses
⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ forel
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 mover
Jack klotz
Wordle 1,792 4/6
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 LATER
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ SCION
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 MOWER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
Statistically, the w better than the v. That’s all I got to say about it that’s fit to print!
Mike S
Statistics aside, V is a cooler letter. 😎
Jack klotz
I dunno, the W looks like TWO V’s, making it twice as cool! Ha!
JD
Wordle 1,792 3/6
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 ROATE
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 MOWER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
ROATE narrows it down to 3 words. MOVER, MOWER and POSER
My plan was to guess MOVER, but with Spring and the grass growing here, I decided on MOWER. That was wrong.
If it didn’t begin with M, it would likely have been POSER.
Never change your plan.
VeeDub
Another solution ending in “VER” after Thursday’s WAVER.
LEAST is genius word
Wordle 1,792 4/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ LEAST
🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ RIPEN
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 CODER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
Wordlebot says “congrats. We both solved in 4 guesses.” But when I click through to see its solution I see it solved it in 5!
What the heck!?
JD
The Bot lies. LOL.
Jack klotz
Now THAT’S funny!!! Ha!
ADK
Least is a genius word’
It could be a result of your settings for WordleBot: there is a gear button in the upper right corner which takes you to a toggle button for WB considers previous solutions list in making selections or WB does not consider previous solutions list. Today the “uses list” showed WB solving in five steps while the “does not use” showed four steps. You can switch your choice back and forth on the results comparison page to see both.
LEAST is genius word
Thank you ADK. I will check my settings for the WB. In the meantime thank you for explaining why it appeared WB was lying!
WordleBot
Skill 46/99
Luck 40/99
CARLE chosen by Prof. Mike
Another -ER ending…sigh! I mined the PU list for word endings, word beginnings, and, of course, previous solutions. It is still rather soon for another repeat. As I compete only against myself, I was happy to solve in five!
Good ☀️/🌃 to all!
JD
When the E and R are in the puzzle, ER ending is probably the most common occurrence.
When it was WAVER, 9 out of the 13 words left after ROATE ended in ER.
Today, all 3 ended in ER
ADK
JD,
Thanks for your comment. I should explain something more clearly. I knew from the getgo that the two letter ending was -ER: what I meant in my comment was the three-letter ending. Like -DER, WER, and VER. I had very little to go on from CARLE. In Hard Mode, you can’t WHOMP, but you can do what I call a Glancing Blow: find a word using the letters you know and containing ones you think might be possible. “Prof. Mike,” our mentor in Wordle, considers trap avoidance part of strategy, but when it is inevitable, you do what you can. ENTRY used strong consonants, included E and R, and was not on the PU list. (BTW, he eschews the PU list, which is one reason I participate in After the Party. I like using FF as part of my Wordling). I chose words as guesses that eliminated various possibilities : they were not the ones WordleBot considered the most efficient, but they accomplished what I wanted. In the end, I had 6 words to chose from. I felt that MOVER was the most likely.
Mike S
Yes, this situation is where ‘Hard Mode’ results can benefit from a different approach than when using, uh, ‘Other Mode’, especially when the player is trying to limit themself to unused words.
Getting letters locked in early to a very common word form can limit the ability to try more frequently used letters in remaining guesses, an ability that is already limited by the number of unlocked letters previously discovered.
That said, it’s hard to resist trying out the more common word form by the third guess. 3 guesses being the gold standard.
(I don’t know who Prof. Mike is. But I do know it’s not me.)
ADK
Mike S,
“Prof. Mike” is one of the proprietors of the WordleTools site. Unfortunately it is partially unavailable due to sudden popularity exceeding its limits, but several useful sections are still up.
I know you are a different Mike because you are in a western time zone (unless you are using a VPN:-))
JD
So you avoid the ER ending temporarily so you can play more letters while avoiding the “_o_er”, “_i_er”, “_a_er”, “_e_er” patterns.
Interesting strategy.
Thanks for clarifying.
I don’t play in hard mode, but most of my solutions could have been played in hard mode.
Teelee
Wordle 1,792 3/6
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 ASTER
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ WHOMP
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
lucky choice for my burner to get the needed clues! Also my 600th 3!!
LEAST is genius word
600 3’s. Nice job Telee
JD
Way to go! Great Milestone!
Sean Hare
Wordle 1,792 2/6*
Hard mode
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 AROSE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
My turn for some luck. I used Filter to fire up the ESP. Thanks, Jeb! Hope that cruise in the Med is going well. Croatia was great for us.
It’s good to be a 1,792 solution sometimes!
Hi there!
Love it!
Glenda M
Wordle 1,792 3/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ CLOUT
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 VAPOR (considered a plethora of words before deciding on this one for O position)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER (thanks to the V – no – – -ER dilemma
So nice to get another 3
Paul
I had it
Wordle 1,792 4/6*
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 orate
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 foyer too early for pu? now choices
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 mower
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 mover
Jack klotz
I’m with ya! Mower was the better choice! The bot disagreed…
36 responses to “#1792 SAT 05/16/2026”
Wordle 1792 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ SCALP
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ FROWN #1224
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ROBOT #215
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 DOZER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
Sorry everyone…
Did great on the puzzle today; failing at properly posting…
If there’s a way for admin to delete my comment to teelee’s post and my correction to that that was instead it’s *own* new post, please do so.
~sigh~
Wordle 1,792 2/6
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 ROUSE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
The filter was super useful today!
Well done!
Oops! Wrong spot for this and IDK how to delete it.
Sorry!
Fixed. Although it is ok to post your answer as a reply elsewhere. I don’t think it creates any real confusion.
Wordle 1,792 5/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
The reclusive
Yellow – toed Sloth
Wordle 1,792 4/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 Slate
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ Orcin
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 Mower
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Mover
I tentatively entered Mover for my 3rd guess, but then deleted it and went with Mower! Like JD said, “Never change your plan.” According to WordleBot, the Average for today’s puzzle is 4.7.
From AI Overview: “WordleBot calculates the average number of turns required to solve the puzzle for a given answer using an expected-value algorithm. “
Wordle 1,792 4/6
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ OPTIC
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 ABUSE
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ FROND
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
Worked too hard to solve this!
40 words after 2nd guess
Screened to 5 not used
Frond was a burner
Left 3 & got lucky w MOVER
Wordle 1,792 4/6*
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ TREAD
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 PURSE
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 LONER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
[A Trip To Frank Gehry’s Outhouse]
Wordle 1,792 4/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ adieu
🟨🟩⬜🟩⬜ roses
⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ forel
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 mover
Wordle 1,792 4/6
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 LATER
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ SCION
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 MOWER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
Statistically, the w better than the v. That’s all I got to say about it that’s fit to print!
Statistics aside, V is a cooler letter. 😎
I dunno, the W looks like TWO V’s, making it twice as cool! Ha!
Wordle 1,792 3/6
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 ROATE
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 MOWER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
ROATE narrows it down to 3 words. MOVER, MOWER and POSER
My plan was to guess MOVER, but with Spring and the grass growing here, I decided on MOWER. That was wrong.
If it didn’t begin with M, it would likely have been POSER.
Never change your plan.
Another solution ending in “VER” after Thursday’s WAVER.
Wordle 1,792 4/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ LEAST
🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ RIPEN
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 CODER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
Wordlebot says “congrats. We both solved in 4 guesses.” But when I click through to see its solution I see it solved it in 5!
What the heck!?
The Bot lies. LOL.
Now THAT’S funny!!! Ha!
Least is a genius word’
It could be a result of your settings for WordleBot: there is a gear button in the upper right corner which takes you to a toggle button for WB considers previous solutions list in making selections or WB does not consider previous solutions list. Today the “uses list” showed WB solving in five steps while the “does not use” showed four steps. You can switch your choice back and forth on the results comparison page to see both.
Thank you ADK. I will check my settings for the WB. In the meantime thank you for explaining why it appeared WB was lying!
Hi everyone!
Wordle 1,792 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 Saner
🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ Mvuli
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Mover
After SANER, the Wordle Solver said next set of likely letters are I, L, U, V, P.
M-W gave me MVULI and says it’s a type of wood like teak.
I was very surprised that MVULI was playable. Do they add words to the list of playable words?
Wordle 1,792 5/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 CARLE 483 wl
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ENTRY 92 wl
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 SHEER 39 wl
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 WIDER 12 wl
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
WordleBot
Skill 46/99
Luck 40/99
CARLE chosen by Prof. Mike
Another -ER ending…sigh! I mined the PU list for word endings, word beginnings, and, of course, previous solutions. It is still rather soon for another repeat. As I compete only against myself, I was happy to solve in five!
Good ☀️/🌃 to all!
When the E and R are in the puzzle, ER ending is probably the most common occurrence.
When it was WAVER, 9 out of the 13 words left after ROATE ended in ER.
Today, all 3 ended in ER
JD,
Thanks for your comment. I should explain something more clearly. I knew from the getgo that the two letter ending was -ER: what I meant in my comment was the three-letter ending. Like -DER, WER, and VER. I had very little to go on from CARLE. In Hard Mode, you can’t WHOMP, but you can do what I call a Glancing Blow: find a word using the letters you know and containing ones you think might be possible. “Prof. Mike,” our mentor in Wordle, considers trap avoidance part of strategy, but when it is inevitable, you do what you can. ENTRY used strong consonants, included E and R, and was not on the PU list. (BTW, he eschews the PU list, which is one reason I participate in After the Party. I like using FF as part of my Wordling). I chose words as guesses that eliminated various possibilities : they were not the ones WordleBot considered the most efficient, but they accomplished what I wanted. In the end, I had 6 words to chose from. I felt that MOVER was the most likely.
Yes, this situation is where ‘Hard Mode’ results can benefit from a different approach than when using, uh, ‘Other Mode’, especially when the player is trying to limit themself to unused words.
Getting letters locked in early to a very common word form can limit the ability to try more frequently used letters in remaining guesses, an ability that is already limited by the number of unlocked letters previously discovered.
That said, it’s hard to resist trying out the more common word form by the third guess. 3 guesses being the gold standard.
(I don’t know who Prof. Mike is. But I do know it’s not me.)
Mike S,
“Prof. Mike” is one of the proprietors of the WordleTools site. Unfortunately it is partially unavailable due to sudden popularity exceeding its limits, but several useful sections are still up.
I know you are a different Mike because you are in a western time zone (unless you are using a VPN:-))
So you avoid the ER ending temporarily so you can play more letters while avoiding the “_o_er”, “_i_er”, “_a_er”, “_e_er” patterns.
Interesting strategy.
Thanks for clarifying.
I don’t play in hard mode, but most of my solutions could have been played in hard mode.
Wordle 1,792 3/6
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 ASTER
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ WHOMP
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER
lucky choice for my burner to get the needed clues! Also my 600th 3!!
600 3’s. Nice job Telee
Way to go! Great Milestone!
Wordle 1,792 2/6*
Hard mode
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 AROSE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
My turn for some luck. I used Filter to fire up the ESP. Thanks, Jeb! Hope that cruise in the Med is going well. Croatia was great for us.
It’s good to be a 1,792 solution sometimes!
Love it!
Wordle 1,792 3/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ CLOUT
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 VAPOR (considered a plethora of words before deciding on this one for O position)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOVER (thanks to the V – no – – -ER dilemma
So nice to get another 3
I had it
Wordle 1,792 4/6*
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 orate
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 foyer too early for pu? now choices
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 mower
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 mover
I’m with ya! Mower was the better choice! The bot disagreed…
Good for you getting back to three!