REPLY 🎉⛵️ Christopher Columbus heads west. (1492)
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#1871 MON 08/03/2026
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.
70 responses to “#1871 MON 08/03/2026”
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New count test.
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Wordle 1,872 4/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ RAISE
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ LINTY
🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜ OPTIC
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MOTIFRAISE leaves 38 possibilities. This is the worst pattern for RAISE. I in the wrong position.
First time I got this pattern with this word. There haven’t been a lot of I words lately. This just makes it more possible.
I decided on LINTY as a filter because of the number of words with Y(16), T(14), L(13). N is only 6.
I also wanted to rule out or in I in the second position. Let’s call it I2.
LINTY leaves only MOTIF, OPTIC, and VOMIT
So, of course I had to guess the word with P in it OPTIC.
OPTIC leaves only MOTIF because of T3.
I also considered HOTLY. That would have given me a 3.
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A convertible retracts its top for a sunny summer drive.-
Not sure why but this is showing up on the Aug 3 posts.
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Thanks. Somehow, I posted on yesterday’s post. I copied and pasted it to today.
I do the initial posting on my iphone. I just must have hit the wrong day.
Silly me.
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*SPOILER – This is the answer for Tuesday 8/4
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🤯 say wut??? fell in to the exact same c4 “ee” trap on my second guess today as i did yesterday? 🤷♂️ definitely not lookin’ for a threepeat mañana . 🧐🤓
Wordle 1,871 4/6*
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ creek
⬜⬜⬜🟥🟨 taser 🤷♂️
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 berry
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 retry (reply – ed.)-
I like how you use red square for error. One thing to make an error more fun!|
Added the editor note.
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👍 nice catch, thx.
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REPLY eluded me, too. Welcome to the After Party Elaine!
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⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 HAMMY
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 DIVVY
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 NUTTY
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 KOOKY
⬛🟩⬛🟨🟩 WEEPY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REPLYHad to try divvy since I started with it on Thursday. Wordle has a history of doing this to me, if I was posting here since the beginning, I’d be famous for my bad luck fishing for the 1.
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Wordle 1,871 3/6*
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨 STILE
🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛ REALM
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REPLYWordleBot
Skill 93/99
Luck 82/99
NYT AVG. 3.7REALM was a high number reused answer, but it paid off in letters and pattern.
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Oops! My hand accidentally touched Submit which became an unfinished comment without a name!
Here’s my post:
Wordle 1,871 4/6⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 Crate
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ Loins
🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ Ruler
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ReplyI couldof, shouldof gone with Reply for the 3rd guess but went with Ruler since it has 2 Rs. The highest letter by position score from real-statistics.com among Bluer, Reply, and Ruler was Bluer which is rated as “Common as an adjective” and “Rare as a noun” [?]. Reply had the second highest letter by position Score. I have no idea if Ms. Bennett still uses an algorithm at times to choose the answers, but in case she does I continue to check the letter by position scores.
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Removed the oops. 😉
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I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t have REPLY on my starts list or even my radar. 🤦🏻♀️
Wordle 1,871 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ COBRA 263
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 STRIP 9
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REPLYWordleBot
Skill 84/99
Luck 61/99-
Same !!
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Thank you for saying so! I feel much better now. 😉
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What does your “starts list” mean?
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Wordle 1,871 3/6
⬛⬛🟦⬛🟦
⬛🟦⬛⬛🟧
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧STEAL, GRODY left only one possibility.
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Wordle 1,871 5/6
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ROUST
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ REIGN
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ REBAR
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 REEDY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REPLYA sea of greens is always nice. 🌊
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A magnificent (lucky) 2!
Wordle 1,871 2/6🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 RINSE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DEPLYVibes at work!
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Congrats!
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Yes they are!
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Excellent!
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Woot! 🦅
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Wordle 1,871 3/6*
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ TREAD
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ REIGN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REPLY[Diving Board]
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Wordle 1,871 4/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ adieu
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 posse
⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ spell
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 reply -
Wordle 1,871 2/6
🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 RAISE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REPLYRAISE leaves 4 words. REPLY is the best intersection guess and perhaps the most common of the 4.
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Christopher Columbus (who might have actually been Spanish not Italian) stands on the end of a row boat onwards to boarding the Santa Maria in Palos de la Frontera in Spain.-
P’s in recent words.
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GRAPE (yes)
POSER (yes)
SONAR (no)
VALVE (no)
FLUME (no)
PURSE (yes)
SLUSH (no)
PENAL (yes)
REPLY (yes)5 out of 9. hmmm.
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I noticed all the p’s recently too.
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🤔 been a run on e’s as well!
7 out of 9
4 in c5
2 in c2
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and i have noticed that each solve contains up to 3 of the same letters as the previous one…..
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Congrats!
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Look at you getting an 🦅! Woot!
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Wordle 1,871 3/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 STEAL
🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨 PLIER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REPLYI think JD said there is a low likelihood of PLIER and PLIED but I played it today to place/rule out letters. Worked out for me.
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PLIER was effectively removed from the answer list by Wordle Bot. It’s Weighted Bottles score is %2.37.
PLIED is even worse. It’s Weighted Bottle score is %0.23.
So, PLIER is more likely than PLIED, but neither is going to be the answer (probably).
%58 is a certain play. Don’t ask me why they picked %58, because I don’t know yet. It’s a coding thing.
That said. PLIER is a good filter, because of the high value letters (LIER), and it certainly worked out for you today.
Good job.
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Wordle(Bot) 1871 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 sauce (453)
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 toner (22)
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩 derby (4)
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 reefy (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 replyUgh.
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🤷♂️ ahh yes, chasin’ e’s and r’s across the board…i know that “ugh” sound well!
🎲🎲🤯
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⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 SLATE 98
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛ RIVEN 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REPLY🤖 3.0 upgrade desperately needed
Wordle calcle tool for post play analysis seems fun.
Other fun post play tools out there folks would recommend?-
JD – That bot/tool I mention above might do the calculations you were pondering yesterday. It’s a post play tool, but it has a ton-o-settings integrated to test best words based on various scenarios. Maybe you have seen it before. I searched for alternative wordle bots and found it this morning.
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Haha, I tried this tool. I think their logic is broken.
If I say the answer is REPLY and I guess RAISE, it does calculate the approximate amount of words left as 3.559 (I said 4.) If I’m reading it right, but then it says the best guess is then BUNDT (huh?) That’s in EASY mode.
If I switch it to ULTRA mode, then it says ROPER is the best guess which may be slightly more reasonable but it’s not on the 2315 list.
ROPER’s weighted bottle score is %49.82 which makes it a likely ADD, but not as likely as REPLY.
This brings up the question. Is ULTRA mode a thing? I have seen someone mention this before.
I still play in easy mode, because I want to occasionally throw in the burner word (in case of the ATCH or similar patterns.)
Most of my games probably could have been played in hard mode though.
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Huh. That’s a drag. I had hoped it would be a fun new analyzer. But, I don’t want to trade one broken analyzer tool (NYT🤖) for another.
Logic is hard … ha ha
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It can be.
Thanks very much for letting me know about it.
There was a chance that I could have gotten some use out of it.
I need to learn Java and write my own tool based on the method I use.
I’ve been thinking about the letter “value” logic and it may be easier than I originally thought.
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Wordle 1,871 3/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 STEAL 115
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 LONER 4
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REPLYOf the 4 words left RELIC was pu, RIFLE seemed like a possible trigger word that Glenda might avoid, and RUBLE seemed foreign, so REPLY seemed the safest choice
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Nice 3 Charles
I so nearly played RIFLE at #2, it would’ve given me the R (in correct position !!) but may not have had any bearing on the outcome 🤷♀️how’s the puppy ?
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Wordle 1,871 3/6
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨SLATE
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨CREEL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩REPLYNorth Central Ohio
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Nice 3 Jeff! Welcome to the After Party!
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Thanks Jeb!
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Welcome fellow slater!
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😀👍
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Wordle 1,871 3/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 DAIRY
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 COUPE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REPLY -
Wordle 1,871 3/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨slate
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜felon
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩reply-
Hi fellow slater. Do you keep a list of preferred 2nd words or do you decide each day?
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I decide each day. Today we had. Yellow E and L. I then went to my list that is Y-LE; felon, reply, whelk, whelp, belly(pu), filer, leper. Although I always try to use R on my second guess, I went for felon because it’s been used a lot here. Darn! But 3’s are great!
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Wordle 1,871 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 Saner
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ Putid
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Reply -
Wordle 1,871 3/6*
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 arose
🟨🟩🟩⬛🟨 leper to the well once too often with the dbl letter
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 reply-
LEPER isn’t a bad guess. It gave you 2 more letters.
There are 43 words left with EE on the original answer list.
Out of 478 words left, that’s very good odds especially since you established that there is one E in the puzzle already. There are only 186 words with at least one E in it.
That’s a %23 chance of a EE.
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startin’ each day down here at the creek we know this only too well
🎲🎲⚡️🎯😎
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Wordle 1,871 4/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 ASTER
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ GREBE
🟨🟩🟨⬛🟩 PERKY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REPLY
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I never heard of GREBE before … interesting!
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Wordle 1,871 4/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨arose
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩unity
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟩derby
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩reply
My 3rd choice would have been “reply” except if it was wrong that would have left me with 3 other options. Going with “derby” left me with only the one option.-
You clearly played this one the right way.
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Hi from downunder 😊
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 DOUSE nl
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ FLECK sv
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 INTEL nl
🟨🟩⬜🟨🟩 LEARY nl
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wow- common word, nu, & not even on my sv listsv = single-vowel
nl = non-list (potential add)-
It’s not an sv word because “y” at the end of a word is a vowel
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REPLY is a great Wordle word. Beat me up.
My brother with his 3 > 1!
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 SCALP 3
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 IMPLY 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REPLY-
Yes Jeb, I thought REPLY was a great word too and, like Kim, it took me by surprise ! Others, not so much 💁♀️
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Wordle 1,871 4/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ CLANK 253
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 SPOIL 8
🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 PULLY 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Lacking any spark of intuition today.
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Same.
And the sound that you’re hearing is only the sound
Of the low spark of high-heeled boys-
I guess it is the unreliability of intuition that makes it so exciting.
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It’s pulley, not pully.
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Per OED, PULLY is a variant of PULLEY. It’s not listed in MW
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1967–pully, n.
= pullover, n. A.2c. See also woolly pully, n.
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1357–pully, variant of pulley, n.¹
A wheel with a groove round its rim, a sheave…
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1790–pully, variant of pulley, n.²
A kind of slide or chute used for unloading…
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1581–pully, variant of pulley, v.
transitive. To raise or hoist with or as with a pully
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