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MAVEN 🎊🎉 Solo 2: Big Al Meaty
Grid Art: ADK’s lighthouse. Sean’s space invader. VeeDub’s breaking sun. JD’s hot Chicago.
Wordle Haiku: Paul’s naked haven.
And: kralc hits 1,000.
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#1839 THU 07/02/2026
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ADD Update
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Today was the 42nd ADDAccording to Wordle Tools, there are 2 more ADD’s coming from now till 7/23. They say 3, but I am assuming that “MAVEN” is one of them. I’ll check back Monday to confirm.
So, 2 in the next 21 days.
That’s one every 10 days (for now).
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How do they know?
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Good question.
They do something that none of us should do.
They look inside the Wordle code.
The answers for the next 30 days are there.
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I am new to the After Party, but not new to Wordle.
Please explain “ADD”Thank you!
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NYT is adding new words to the list. These are words that can be guessed as answers and *may* also be answers. Roughly 12,000 words can be guessed in Wordle. But under 3,000 of them are on the “answers” list. There is an F.A.Q. under Support where you can get more info.
Welcome to the After Party, EATS!
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with the e locked in to the fourth spot i had an inkling that an n was in the fifth.
…and since we were just ridin’ the u train i gave lumen a go, with maven waiting in the wings. 🎯
🤓🤯 …rolled my 1k milestone today btw.
Wordle 1,839 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ creek
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟩 lumen
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 maven-
Congrats on the milestone! 🥳
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I was feeling a K today. Either I misinterpreted a lazy V stuck to a wall as a K, or I was just wrong. I prefer to assume the former.
RAVEN was chosen because I love Corvids. We don’t have any RAVENs here, but I do have a murder of CROWS that visit me every morning for a breakfast of our chopped up leftovers. I call them Myrtle. All of them. I can’t tell them apart. 🤷🏻♀️
Wordle 1,839 3/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ STEAK 242
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAVEN 2
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MAVENWordleBot
Skill 91/99
Luck 62/99 -
Wordle 1,839 4/6
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 RAISE
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ CAGEY
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 OAKEN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MAVENRAISE leaves only 2 words (I thought).
CAGEY and OAKEN.
At this point, I said Uh Oh! I think a REPEAT or an ADD is coming.
I looked for possible repeats. They are…
PANEL, LAPEL, LABEL, VALET, MATEY, BAGEL, TAKEN, FACET, CAMEO, CADET, CAMEL, NAVEL, HAZEL, HAVEN, WAXEN, GAVEL, EATEN, LADEN.
That’s 18 words with that pattern.
Then, I had to decide between the 2.
I figured there were a lot of C’s recently, so, went for CAGEY first.
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Playing the 2 unused 2315 words, narrowed it down to 4 REPEAT words.HAVEN (1582)
WAXEN (1675)
EATEN (1728)
LADEN (1755)None of these are recent!!
=====================Potential ADDs
————————-DAVEN, DAWEN, LATEN, MAVEN, PATEN
MAVEN is the only common word in that group.
I think we had discussions about LATEN last time this happened but its COCA score is literally “2”.
So, MAVEN had to be it and it was.
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Good for you Tracy!There are many more words we can suggest for you.
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The hot sun blazing down on Chicago for 95 degrees!-
We love an add!
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What’s a COCA score?
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It tells you how frequently a word is used in printed text books, magazines, newspapers etc in words per billion.
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Thank you! Bookmarking that site shortly! 😀
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Wordle 1,839 3/6*
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 STILE
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 DREAM
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MAVENWordleBot
Skill 84/99
Luck 60/99
NYT AVG. 4.1Again, a reused second word paid off in finding more letters.
Then I was lucky in my choice between two unused possibilities.
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Wordle 1,839 3/6
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 ALINE
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 WAKEN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MAVEN -
Wordle 1,839 4/6
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ANISE
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 WAKEN
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAVEN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MAVENFell into the “EN” hole.
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Wordle 1,839 3/6
⬛⬛🟦🟦⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧STEAL, CURDY left 22 possible, 15 used. Of the seven options, one was a perfect filter, and also happened to be correct.
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Wordle 1,839 3/6*
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ TREAD
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 GABLE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MAVEN[Om]
Happy with a 3.
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MAVEN seems like great skater adjectival slang, ‘Whoa, maven trick, dude,’ or even just, ‘Maven!’
I’m going to try to get this going with my nephew’s and niece’s.
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Wordle 1,839 3/6
🟨⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛🟩🟨🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
ASTER
PANEL
MAVEN
I went with panel because that’s all I could think of even though it was a pu, and then my brain got waxen, haven, maven, named, so using ff I ruled out the pu, and the past tense is never used, and maven was it! For a 3! -
Wordle 1,839 4/6
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ STEAL
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 OAKEN
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAVEN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MAVENGot stumped! Went w Raven first because Maven was going to be an add and m was just used yesterday.
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⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 Slate
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜Irony
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩Began
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MavenSlate and Irony led to Apnea, Began, and Maven (words not on the PUL). Each of those could rule in/out the other 2. I thought that after the vocabulary challenge yesterday, Ms. Bennett might throw us a bone by using Began, the most common word of the 3. Now I think she’s working on expanding my vocabulary! 🙂
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Ok, Began is going to be on my radar now!
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🟩🟨🟨⬛️⬛️ MEATY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MAVENIs it really a 1/26 to hit the first letter when we’re never gonna get an X-word?
Either way, 2s 👎👎-
Congrats!
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So cool to see a 2 when I was challenged w the word!
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Wow 👌
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Sorry for your loss. 😁
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You beat me to it! Thanks for taking one (well, 2) for the team, BIG AL.
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😂
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Thanks. 2 solves are extremely uninteresting.
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Great!
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Wordle 1,839 5/6
🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ adieu
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ wafer
🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ maker
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ latex
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 maven
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I liked your X bet with the combo of L and T.
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Jeb, thank you for telling us about the holidays. Maybe I knew about “I Forgot Day” and forgot about it. 😄
Wordle 1,839 4/6
⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ Saner
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 Oaken
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ Veldt
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MavenSaner reduced the number of unused common words to 3 possibilities so I picked one.
Oaken eliminated the other 2 unused common words, so I started looking for a word with the next most likely letters in the remaining uncommon words, VDT.
Veldt narrowed the possibilities to uncommon Maven or previously used Haven.
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I looked up veldt just now. The Veldt was an interesting 1950 science fiction short story by Ray Bradbury, in which a smart home takes over parental duties.
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My brother Eric just reminded me that Veldt was the name of our cousin Joe’s ska band.
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I can see the Rudies skanking now!
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Wordle 1,839 3/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ STEAL
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 CADRE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MAVENI’ve been thinking about the word maven since my writer/producer friend started a company called Media Maven.
Happy US Independence Day! 🇺🇸🎆🧺☀️🧴
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3 is good…I tied the Bot…
Wordle 1,839 3/6⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 SAUCE
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 RAVEN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩I liked the word raven and it turned out to be lucky…
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Great name for a media company. Always enjoy an alliteration.
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WordleBot 1839 3/6
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 sauce 114 wl
⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ tamer 2
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 maven-
We both got down to 2 left on our second guess. Nice!
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🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 AROSE
⬛🟩🟨🟩⬛ TAMED useful M
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I was looking for an ADD and my l.2 was also one, wasn’t it?. Plus the advantage of a nice symmetrical pattern. Ginger cats jumpin’ about in the rough grass?-
Or yellow-eyed green monster? Echoes of Space Invaders, for those of us old enough to remember but not so old as to forget!
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Excellent take on pattern! Nice solve too!
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I remember the first console games to hit the convenience stores.
Video game arcades did not exist yet.
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I remember it well, even on I Forgot Day.
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Even on! Hah!
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⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 SLATE (433)
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩 RAMEN (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MAVEN —A new word to the original list I believeGood morning from Minnesota wordle friends! 💗
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Good morning from Kentucky. Heading to Minnesota for the 4th!
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Have a safe and happy 4th!
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Sounds fun! Bring bug spray. There are a lot of lakes in Mn.
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Welcome to Minnesota, Jeb, the land of 10,000 lakes and the US city with the best average Wordle score (3.51).
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(St. Paul)
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RAMEN was a good one!
Whenever I read “Minnesota,” my brain automatically interprets it as “MIN-ne-SOH-tuh.” Oh jeez.
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Wordle 1,839 5/6*
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 orate
⬛🟩🟨🟩⬛ panel
🟨🟩⬛🟩⬛ naked
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 haven desparate choice
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 maven I’m not one of these in wordle-
Your words read like a poem on a rendezvous at a business convention. 😁
Orate panel.
Naked haven.
Maven.-
I’m a poet and don’t know it!
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With a couple more words, you could make this a HAIKU (add)!
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An orate panel
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Brilliant!
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Love it!
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Wordle 1,839 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 PRUNE 108 wl
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 SHEEN 21 wl
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 WAKEN 2 wl
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MAVENWordleBot
Skill 89/99
Luck 48/99
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sUmmer of U-words from Professor Mike – jUly 2; PRUNE sponsored by JennyWrenI realized that the -EN ending was a trap, but I have no interest in maintaining a streak so I decided to go for it. I made a list of 17 words: 6 were not previous solutions. The two that seemed most likely were WAKEN and MAVEN. The two left after WAKEN according to WordleBot were MAVEN and LADEN (PU #1755). Satisfying solve in 4.
Ship sailing past a lighthouse.
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Great visual 🛳️💡🏠
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The grid art interpretation is spot(light) on.
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mornin’ 😊
I was well over it today by the time I solved 🥱
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ BINGO
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 CHURN
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 SHEEN (so fixated on a double letter I missed the duplicate H)
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 WAKEN (not on list but I considered an ADD)
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 LADEN (considered this repeat @ #3 🙄)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 with 9 letters left to chose from – yes, it was an ADD😬 with a start like this – I may be trending toward my highest monthly average.!!
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Do you keep track of your monthly averages? 🤷♀️ Just curious. Occasionally I check my total average on Brian Falkner’s page.
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I keep my monthly averages in a spreadsheet.
It’s very easy to do.
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You have inspired me to finally do just that. The set up will be a PITA, but once I get the last 1602 stats entered, it will be a piece of cake. 🙄
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Yes Christine I do, manually though…. I like to write things, and it exercises neural pathways – win, win 😊
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Congratulations…? 🤔😉
(3rd guess) I hate when I do that!
6/6 is infinitely better than X/6.
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Yes Kim, a PHEW beats on OH NOoooo
As Maven was an unknown word to me – I was eyeballing defeat
because none of the remaining 9 letters formed a usable word – I got there eventually
I was very impressed at all the folk who got it in 3 – not to mention Big Als terrible 2 👎-
Poor Big Al. 😆
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