International Yada Yada Yada Day
ORBIT 🎸🪇🎷 2s: Judy & Paul Arose, Mike Tread, Elaine Trace, Kim Enchanted Forest Fairy. Grid Art: JD’s Yada Yada Turtle, Mike’s Precious. Good Guess: Big Al’s DJINN. And: InDesign shop talk.
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#1860 THU 07/23/2026
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.
85 responses to “#1860 THU 07/23/2026”
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Wordle 1,860 3/6*
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ STILE
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩 TRAIT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ORBITWordleBot
Skill 98/99
Luck 68/99
NYT AVG. 3.6 -
Wordle 1860 4/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ steal 145
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ trump 8
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 front 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 orbit -
Wordle 1,860 3/6
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🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧STEAL, RHINO supposedly left two possible, but I wasn’t about to try DROIT while ORBIT was unused.
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Very clever to avoid that nasty DROIT
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We made our annual visit to the state fair yesterday and, as always, stopped in at the Department of Forestry’s “Enchanted Forest” to pick up a free tree seedling—chose cork oak this year to add to our back forty coppice—and they had a cute little FAIRY house set up at the base of one of the giant redwoods. 🧚🏻♀️ 🏡 I wish I had taken a picture, but the only photo I thought to take was of the blue ribbon Hereford bull, Fabian. He was a beauty!
I scrolled my 2315 Unused Words list for words including I and R when ORBIT whispered to me.
Wordle in 2: #237
Wordle 1,860 2/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ FAIRY 97
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ORBITWordleBot
Skill 71/99
Luck 81/99PS: Cows are my favorite mammals and Herefords are my favorite breed. I spent a good 30 minutes with Fabian and his pregnant girlfriend, Evangeline. Poor Josh. He is so patient with me and my animal excursions.
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Nicely done.
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Good job!
I love cows too! I clipped a pic of a bunch that completely blocked a 2 lane road in the mountains and captioned it to my friends and family…
“Yep, was road blocked by an unruly mob of loud, drooling protestors today.”-
Love it! But how were you not able to work “udderly” into that message?? 😆
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Lol! I missed the mark for sure!
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Fantastic 🦅 and a fairy nice story to go with it.
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Thanks, Christine!
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Wordle 1,860 2/6
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ Trace
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 OrbitI’m thankful to be one of those with a 2 today. Trace led to 4 words not on the PUL: Brunt, Droit, Grunt, and Orbit. I was concerned about a Repeat of Front or Print, both from 2021, but decided to focus on the 4 words not on the PUL. Orbit would rule in/out the other 3 words, so it’s fortunate for me that Orbit was the answer.
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Ah, another ring bearer.
I guessed ORBIT thinking I was setting up for a repeat of CRUST (23). Though at that point it could also have been GRUNT, unused, and I don’t know what else.
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Nice 2 Elaine!
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Nice!
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Cool 🫘
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Wordle 1,860 2/6*
🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ TREAD
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ORBIT[The Precious]
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Way to go Golem!
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A nice 2!
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Woot 🦅
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Wordle 1,860 3/6
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ RAISE
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ DIRTY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ORBITRAISE leaves 7 words that I care about.
DROIT and DIRTY guarantees a 3 in all cases but themselves.
I thought since LORRY was yesterday’s word that there could be a run on words ending Y.
I also decided that since DIRTY is more common and it was first alphabetically on my list that it may be more likely. Instead ORBIT is the last on the list.
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I had a dream last night and Yada Yada Yada and when I woke up there was a turtle on my lawn.-
Had I started with ROATE, it would have been a 2, because ORBIT was sitting there on my 2nd guess cheat sheet for that pattern.
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🤦🏻♂️ oh well. You still did well with RAISE.
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⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛SLATE
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩POINT
⬛🟩🟨🟩🟩DROIT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩ORBITDarn, I was trying to maintain a 3.0 or less “recent average” for longer than 2 weeks. Blew it. DROIT was not the best choice between bigot, droit orbit vomit. Oopsies. Back up to 3.1
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3.1 is still phenomenal.
3.1 was my average last month.
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Thanks, but it’s just the 2 week average the bot posts daily. So not as impressive as it might sounds.
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Your 3.1 monthly is phenomenal.
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3 is good and i beat the Bot…
Wordle 1,860 3/6⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ SAUCE
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 CLOUT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩I hadn’t noticed that I used C in my 2nd word when it couldn’t be an option…
My 4s exceed my 3s by 14 ..-
I made the same mistake today in thinking IDIOT could have been a choice making me feel like one. 🤓
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Wordle 1,860 3/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ adieu
🟨🟨⬜🟩⬜ tonic
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 orbit-
Nice!
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Wordle 1,860 5/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ STEAL
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ MOTHY
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 TROUT (pu)
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩 DROIT (mistake w/O)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ORBITThe M and Y helped eliminate other words and TROUT cemented location of T.
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I also made the mistake of playing DROIT today. oopsies. 🤓
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Wordle 1,860 3/6
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ABUSE
🟩⬛🟨🟩⬛ OPTIC
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ORBITDarn, orbit was a starter word for me!
I also compete w myself to keep 3’s over 4’s. I’m 141 over. Repeat words were introduced when I was trying to get 100 over 4’s and struggled for weeks as I was in a rut of 4’s for a while. I laugh at myself because I don’t mind 5’s as it helps my stats!
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🐥Do you change starting words every day? Was orbit your past regular starting word?
Thanks for sharing on the personal challenge 3’s over 4’s which you have well surpassed! Do you have any others you can share? Just looking for ideas. 🤓
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141 more 3’s than 4’s is pretty amazing.
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141 over is great!
I got to a personal best of 90 over back in May. Then I had a very 4 filled June. I’m just back to 90 over again.
Totally identify with being okay with 5s over more 4s. I was even disappointed with my 2 today. ‘Awww, that’s not a 3.’ 😁
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If you start tracking 2’s vs 5’s, then you care about those more.
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This is one point I’m more in line with Big Al on; I find 2s pretty uninteresting. 3s are where it’s at for me.
Besides, …
151 … Twos
192 … FivesThis wouldn’t be worth thinking about unless they were a lot closer.
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JD, I track all my solves in a lchart I created in InDesign. Not to be “all investigative” but because I didn’t use the app correctly for a few weeks when I started and wanted to keep those tally’s so I just made my own record…and still do.
Christine, I come up with what I call combo-words that have 3 vowels in first word and 2 in the second and only play the 2nd word if I didn’t get good clues from the first word. I pick one of those starter words based on how lonely I feel a vowel or consonant has been, lol. I have 9 combo words now and they’re weak compared to my older words because I still don’t start with a PU word. I have had 4 one-solve guesses with this method in 1,537 plays (I didn’t start until almost a year in). Those starter words were Ocean, Piano & Media. Glove was also a 1-solve but I threw that out not caring that morning and it was it!
I’m intrigued when Glenda, and others, mentioned using one vowel words to start with – never done that. I do try 2 vowel words I’m waiting to see be used like Fluid, Began, Dairy, & Optic. I won’t start with Orbit again tho.
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That’s pretty cool. I have not used InDesign before. I have used Illustrator (in a case where it probably should have been InDesign, but the company I worked for didn’t own that product.)
I keep everything in Excel.
I haven’t tried generating charts / graphs from my data, but suppose I could.
Looks like you started playing Wordle about 45 days before I started.
Do you think the list of answers is random or do you think they consciously or unconsciously create patterns?
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JD, I think they do use patterns from time to time. I think of all the double letters lately, then we had a bunch of S’s then a bunch of U’s in a row. Remember when they did Skate and Stake back to back?
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Wow! Using InDesign to create a chart of solves seems like an interesting choice. (I was a publication designer and editor for 30+ years and used Adobe CS almost exclusively. That file must be pretty big.)
I keep my solves in an Excel spreadsheet. One of the columns is for the pattern. It is actually five columns wide and six rows long and I fill in the squares with green, yellow, or gray. I have a tab for each month. It works pretty well.Curious, do you have InDesign through an Adobe subscription? I have a pre-subscription version of the Creative Suite on my older iMac that I keep just for those programs because I won’t pay for a subscription to software. I was so mad when they did that!
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Your combo method sounds very interesting. If I ever get brave enough to change my starting word… Awww… you’ve anthropomorphized your vowels. Are you going to share your combos?
I didn’t start playing until a year in either but I have missed several weeks here and there because I go remote camping off the grid.
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Hi there, It has made the game more interesting for me…. but has my monthly solve % creeping up – 3.92 yikes
1/3 of Julys solves have been single-vowel words (9) with (6) having double a letter
I have another 42 on my own, unfinished, list (3 would be adds) and 26 of which begin with an S
doesn’t yet include others on the available listSo fascinating to note similarities & differences in play
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My biggest fear, after losing my streak or losing a game, is one of my favorite start words coming on a day when I don’t use it. Specifically, COBRA.
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Hey Kim S, hope I’m replying on the right block. I pay for just InDesign starting this year. Had the whole suite for 6-7 yrs at a teacher rate but Adobe just raised their prices too high and stopped offering me that rate. Only dabbled w Photoshop and Lightroom so it’s was ok. I have a Love-Hate relationship w Adobe…Apple too, lol. And I started when it was Adobe Pagemaker in the 90’s! They were way behind Quark when they were hot but now InDesign I think is the industry standard.
Always bummed when one of my starter words wasn’t played on the day it’s used. The one-guesses are elusive!
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Hi Hi! I too started with PageMaker around 1992 when I got my first desktop publishing job, but back then it was Aldus rather than Adobe. Adobe bought them in 1994. From then on I have been an Adobe and Apple person, also in a conflicted relationship. I always had the most current CS versions through my work and regularly used Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Illustrator, InDesign (PageMaker originally), and Acrobat Pro, but when I changed employers and Adobe switched to Creative Cloud, it screwed that up and I haven’t upgraded since. I have toyed with it so many times because I hate not having them on my MacBook (especially Photoshop and InDesign), but every time I crunch the numbers I get irritated and just deal with what I have. 🙄
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Wordle 1,860 4/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ STEAL 145
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ NIFTY 13
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 IDIOT 2
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩When u start with nothing but yellows I try to pin down those letter positions, hence the ‘double I’ guess. Settled for par. Unlike TEELEE my 4s are slightly ahead of my 3s
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Wordle 1,860 2/6*
⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛ arose
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 orbitavg is 2.5 on my new streak… flying high
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Yes you are!
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Woot 🦅 on today’s game and woot on your average (assuming the 2 week one the NYT creates?) This is stellar!
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No, I was being funny, I’m on a two day streak, I blew it on SHILL
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stats are so manipulable – all about what you include, n what leave you out ….
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That’s awesome. 2.5! Keep it going.
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⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ DJINN
🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨 RABBI
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ORBIT-
you’ll get NICE comments on your result, not sure about your starter
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Congrats and amazing getting it in 3 with those crazy first two words! Woot woot!
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Nice contrarian play!
You pulled a DJINN out of the bottle on this one.
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Wordle 1,860 3/6
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 ASTER
🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ TRUMP
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ORBITSo I have a personal benchmark I try to maintain, and I was so happy to see My 3s (632)have quietly gone back to a 50+ gap over the 4s(581)!
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nice 3, NICE stats, I’m struggling to keep 3s ahead of 4s
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I have the same benchmark!
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Great play! Thanks for sharing your benchmark!
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Sweet! You’ll be a 100 before you know it!
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50 over is great!
My 3s being 100 over my 4s is my last goal with Wordle.
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Thanks—that’s another way I didn’t think of to set a personal achievement. 🥳
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Wordle 1,860 2/6
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ arose
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 orbitYay!
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Well done!
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just saw that myself, good feeling, eh?
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Very nice!!!
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Woot!
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Yay!
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Yada Yada Yada day, huh –
this expression always reminds me of my sister who lives in Ozsame theme
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ SWARM (hoping to make a dent in the plethora of S words, meh)
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ CRONY (floating R anchored)
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ERROR (! indeed & blew my 3 for this silly pu 😑)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⛅another of many foggy days this July, but nothing like the classic UK pea souper….
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Wow! What a jump from ERROR to perfection. Plus intriguing comments as usual, although as a Brit I have to say peasoupers are a thing of the past (1950s) since the Clean Air Act. Smog is very rare these days – and even fog in a dry dry year like this one.
While I’m here, I got luckyish today:
⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛ My usual AROSE
⬛🟩🟨🟨⬛ PRION: not on the long list but useful here, leading to:
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩On which topic, has anyone here read “Orbital”, a Booker Prize winner. Not to everyone’s taste but certainly different. Don’t look for a plot, more of a theme.
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Glimpse of the third sunrise in 24 hours over our green planet, seen from a window on the ISS-
Welcome to the After Party, SeanH!
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Nice to see you back Sean, and nice solve – I haven’t been able to keep my #3 solve rate higher than my #4 in July …. mainly since I went on a single-vowel, no-repeat-consonants theme – to make it more interesting for me….. My solve % is creeping ever higher daily & currently sits at 3.92, “So what” I say (unlike me as I’m usually hugely competitive)
ERROR was a RO-OR/double letter/repeat ?? ‘error’ for meI lived in Manchester in the late 1990s & loved tripping around the UK from there – don’t think I did encounter a legit peasouper 🤔
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I am not familiar with Yada. We used to say Rhubarb rhubarb.
Canberra was clear at 9 this morning. Brisbane was fogged under.
I used a single vowel starter again.
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do you live in Canberra or Brisbane -or just travel ?
I lived in Brisbane before moving to Melbourne – had a stint in the UK – before returning to NZ 1998-
I have mostly lived in Canberra for my adult life.
Spent childhood in Perth Darwin and Melbourne. Heard about Brisbane fog on the news.
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Cool – I got to Darwin while I lived over there – but not to Canberra or Perth
Mothers Day a couple of years ago – I decided to treat myself to a long weekend in Perth – once I looked up the flight details (hours!) and $ – well, that idea just didn’t fly … 😏
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All I think about is the Seinfeld episode with Yada Yada, it was hilarious.
Here’s the clip. Enjoy!
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I thought it was funny it had an “International” designation. Feels very New York City.
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Wordle 1,860 3/6
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ STORY 31
🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜ ORATE 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Beat the bot and top 36% and 🐥
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nice one 👍
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Good job.
Just think if you had started with ORATE… maybe a 2?
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