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#1896 FRI 08/28/2026
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.
99 responses to “#1896 FRI 08/28/2026”
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[moved to correct day by jeb]
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Sorry posted in wrong day! Not sure how to delete this
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Wordle 1,896 3/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ROUST
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ALINE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWEEN -
Jeb, is there a way to share images?
I just created a line graph of all the original puzzle numbers of all 23 REPEATs. It’s pretty interesting.
21 of 23 of the REPEATs are indeed first year REPEATs (<= Puzzle 364).
but also.
19 of the 23 of the REPEATs are less than Puzzle number 200.
I have a png of this.
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More from Gemini
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The New York Times Acquisition (January/February 2022): The New York Times purchased Wordle on January 31, 2022, for a low seven-figure sum. The game officially migrated over to NYT servers on February 10, 2022 (around Puzzle #236).Jan 31, 2022 was actually puzzle #226.
Feb 10, 2022 was puzzle #236.
So, <= to #236 is significant.
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You can email me an image that I can add to the WordPress library and I can either place it for you or send you the image link to place yourself. jeb at five forks dot com.
I will also work on a tip on how you can use html to place an image from third party image hosting.
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Thank you, Jeb!
Please don’t tempt us to sully this format by making it easy to post images to it. This forum will become overrun with reaction gifs and still images from some of the most random movies. … And that’s just from me! 😁
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Noted.
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JD: When copying a share link, pick the “public link” option so a password is not needed.
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Sorry, try this one.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lSrFqXiAWvkpiIQNOnM-axOm9Ij2XOKe/view?usp=sharing
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Now we have “chart art” … I’m seeing Nessie of the Loch Ness …
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Cool graphic! Thx for charting that.
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That worked! I think providing the public links is a good way to provide complex reporting information vs trying to load here as images.
I’ve been arbitrarily considering “year 1” which would be a bit higher than the take over date.
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TEPEE wasn’t very strategic, but I honestly thought it was the answer. 🤷🏻♀️ TWEEN is a good ➕.
Wordle 1,896 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ COBRA 569
🟩🟨⬜🟩⬜ TEPEE 3
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWEENWordleBot
Skill 85/99
Luck 61/99 -
Wordle 1,896 4/6*
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 STILE
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ TREAT
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛ TWEED
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWEENWordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 45/99
NYT AVG. 3.8It was a toss-up between TWEED and TWEEN on three, and unfortunately I picked the one I thought was more of a “real” word.
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What real word would you use in place of TWEEN? TWIXT?
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⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ BINGO
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ ANTSY
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛ TRUNK
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Wordle 1,896 3/6
⬛🟦🟧⬛⬛
🟦⬛🟧⬛🟦
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧STEAL left 19, only 2 unused: ERECT, TWEEN. I guessed the first, it left 5 possible, but only TWEEN unused. It was an ADD.
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At least my 4 tied the Bot…
Wordle 1,896 4/6⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 RINSE
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 FELON
🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 WAKEN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWEENI didn’t even realize it was a word, but that’s all that was left after waken…
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Wordle 1,896 2/6*
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ TREAD
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWEEN[Alms]
The Five Forks list was very helpful today. All of the TH- words I could think of were ruled out with the lower chances of a high number repeat and there being no R. … The other TWEE- words didn’t even come to mind.
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Nice!
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Wow! Came together nicely for you!
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Good one
I was trying all the TH words too but none fitted with N in last position, so had to settle on TW, fortunately -
Terrific!
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Scoredle 3/6*
14,855
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ AUDIO (1,251)
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨 SLEET (5)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWEENScordle says five but in the real word there was really only one. 😎
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Opps looks like tweep is a real word… I stand chastened.
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Wordle 3/6
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 CLEAT (20)
⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜ STEER (2)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWEENWordleBot
Skill 92/99
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Wordle 1,896 3/6
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ Saner
⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ Intel
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Tween 🥳In my family of origin, we celebrated two “tween” days each year because of birthdays two days apart:
* 8/4 & 8/6
* 9/19 & 9/21-
Strands #908
“On this day in 1963”
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🔵🔵Tracy Bennett is the editor for Strands as well as Wordle. Given today’s Strands game, I’ve decided I really like her.
(I still don’t like repeats in Wordle, though.)
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I do not know this game. Can you explain the fun of #908?
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Well I went and played. Now I get it! Got that same dot shape as you. Not sure what that means. Got two badges!
Solved Without Hints and Span First.
I used to carry that speech around in my iPod back in the iPod days. I also drove by his childhood home on the way to work every day.
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Good to hear! When I saw your request for an explanation, I was worried the only way to explain it would spoil it. I’m glad you figured it out.
After looked up this date in 1963 in Wikipedia, then the spangram jumped out at me.
I watched a few YouTube videos with/about that speech, even though I have quite a few other things I should be doing.
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I love Strands. And the theme yesterday was a favorite.
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Wordle 1,896 5/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ adieu
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ roses
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ tweet
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ tweep
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 tween-
You get the biggest Sea of Greens award for the day! (So far.)
I think that’s a distinction. The Big SOG Award.
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Massive SOG!
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Super SOG!
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Wordle 1,896 3/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 RAISE
⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ BETEL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWEEN (ADD)I’m so happy to get a 3 after 5-5-4.
RAISE leaves 19 OG words.
BETEL is still the perfect filter since there are 5 words that start with B including BEECH, BETEL, BEZEL, BONEY and BOWEL. 10 words with EE. 11 words with an L. Only 5 words with a T.
BETEL ruled out all the OG words.
So, what’s left?
TWEEN – 58%
TWEED – #121
TWEET – #176940% chance of an ADD
8% chance of a REPEATSo, the choice is clear.
If that was wrong then I go with TWEED. (First year REPEAT)
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A Basset Hound rests on the floor. He is happy with a 3 too. Maybe, he gets a treat too!Don’t feel writing the
HAIKU today, but I wish she
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Wordle 1896 3/6 (Bot)
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 arose (222)
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 liven (3)
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⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 SLATE
🟩⬛⬛🟩⬛ TRIED
🟩🟥⬛🟩⬛ TRUER 😜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWEEN addThat moment you press enter and you realize your mistake…
*Can’t kick myself too much after yesterday and almost no sleep…
Talk about a Planes, Trains, and Automobiles disaster. On a 400-mile road trip to Chicago for a BTS concert, my car completely died. With the local dealership booked solid, the kids and I ended up hitchhiking in the backseat of a pickup truck with two MAGA guys we met at a Casey’s gas station, who drove us an hour away to get a rental. We arrived at Soldier Field in total gridlock surrounded by 60,000 frantic fans, so I ordered the kids to ditch the car and sprint through traffic to the gates. It was like reliving my 20s hitchhiking through Europe—just with more K-Pop.
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Reminds me of one of Rich Hall’s Sniglets!
Ignasecond: The overlapping second when you close your car door and realize the keys are still inside.
What a crazy story! Chicago traffic can be really bad. I’m somewhat of an expert on it after living in this area for 37 years. Hope you’re all back home safe!
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Ahhh, Rich Hall. … He totally fell off my radar after Not Necessarily the News until I reencountered him on some older QI episodes. Funny guy. … Makes me nostalgic for some spap-oop.
— —Also, that’s a wild adventure Christine!
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Wow, what a story!
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What happened after the kids ditched the car. Did you find a parking space and meet them?? If so- how? And how old are said kids? How was the journey home?
Maybe we can have a new installment every day. 😊📖
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*I did an illegal u-turn in the opposite direction and came back to pick them up after the concert! Kids are 19 so really they are young adults. I had to leave my stalled car in Rockford, IL about 6 hours away from me. It was cray!
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Wordle 1,896 3/6
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨SLATE
🟩⬛🟨🟩⬛TONEY
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Wordle 1,896 2/6*
⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ STEAL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWEENBeat the Bot and Wordle in two. Last 2 was July 21.
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Congrats!
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Awesome!
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Very cool!
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Yay !
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🦅 woot woot! ✨
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Wordle 1,896 4/6*
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 arose
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ plied hard mode forced
⬛🟨⬛🟩🟨 unmet long shot but who knows
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Wordle 1,896 3/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 Stare
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 Colin
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TweenSince 8/23, 5 of the 6 answers contain an N, including 2 Ns on 8/24, so 6 Ns in 6 days. 🤔
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Fascinating stat! I’ve trued to use R and N on second word.
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Good observation! I see N words going back to at least PRAWN.
PRAWN – yes
OLDEN – yes
RUNNY – yes
CLICK – no
CAPON – yes
UNCUT – yes
TWEEN – yes6 out of 7 is a strong trend!
Maybe SANER is the start word (short term).
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Wordle 1,896 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨SLATE
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜TWERP
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩TWEENFantastic description of this community on ChatGPT.
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Wordle 1,896 3/6
⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
STEAL
TREED
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Wordle 1,896 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 URSAE 309 wl
🟨⬜🟩⬜🟨 ELECT 4 wl
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWEENWordleBot
Skill 93/99
Luck 58/99
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sUmmer of U-words from Professor Mike – aUg. 28; URSAE sponsored by Matthew SagalI used ELECT for letter placement which worked well and added the floating T. I did not think of TEENY but chose TWEEN over TEETH (PU 1551) and TWEED (PU 121) because statistics favor new words over previous solutions.
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Wordle 1,896 4/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨rose
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜unity
🟩🟨🟨🟩⬜tenet
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩tween
3rd guess was beTWEEN tenet and tween and my gut led me astray. I wish I had thought it the way I just wrote it and maybe I would have chosen tween for my 3rd guess! -
Wordle 1,896 6/6*
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 SAUCE
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 REIGN
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 HYMEN
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩 DOZEN
🟨⬛⬛🟩🟩 ELVEN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWEENOuch
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Phew! 😜
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🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ TEARS
🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜ TONED
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Usual first word.
Chose TONED somewhat randomly – at first I was thinking of words ending in E but then TONER popped into my head. That wouldn’t work because of the R, but TONED was unused so I proceeded with that.
The resulting arrangement of known and unknown letters from TONED seemed to leave me with only one partial solution, T_ _ EN.
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Good strategy
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Nicely played.
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Wordle 1,896 4/6
⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ STEAL 24
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ TRECK 7
🟩🟨🟩🟨⬜ TEENY 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWEENPlayed TRECK to filter TWERK if it wasn’t the answer. That left a couple of unused options, and I chose wrong for par
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Teeny was a good guess! I probably would have chosen that over Tween too!
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I chose treck too. Then decided against it because it’s not on JD’s ‘weighted’ list. I guess it’s really trek.
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I can’t take credit for that list.
That’s Wordle Tools getting it from Wordle Bot itself.
The “Bot” in “Weighted Bottles” is from “Wordle Bot”.
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Wordle 1,896 4/6
⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛ STEAL
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ OPIUM
🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨 ERECT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TWEENChose the wrong word between the last two played.
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Wordle 1,896 3/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ QUASI 612
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ EBONY 17
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Bollards in car park.
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Go you 👍
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Wow… great solve with little info!
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Almost overthunk again – musing if TB isn’t a chook breeder, maybe she’s an a-fish-ionado (TENCH)
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ TORUS
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ TAINT (have been pondering words beginning & ending in T
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 almost used TWIXT @ #2 – so betwixt n between helped me choose this over Tench-
Not bad at all!
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ChatGPT seems impressed with us. 😉
https://chatgpt.com/share/6a9094d4-2254-83ea-a2db-c01581ca0253
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Then ChatGPT did a deeper dive. This is amazing!
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That was a good read during my lunch break working the night shift, Jeb!
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Interesting articles!
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I am honored to show up in the Cast of Characters of this play/sitcom/performance art we didn’t realize we were making!
I’m surprised ChatGPT didn’t single out Kralc’s bayou /pirate persona.
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I asked ChatGPT about kralc:
What initially looks like random eccentricity is actually a pretty consistent persona.
His posts have several recurring elements:
– “the creek” — he almost invariably begins his Wordle with a fictional trip “down at the creek.”
– Golf metaphors — “tap in,” “twofer,” “deuce,” “bird,” “eagle,” “putt,” “never up, never in.”
– Pirate language — “aye, mateys,” “arrr,” 🏴☠️, “walk the plank.”
– The Powers That Be / PTB — his name for the people/algorithm choosing the Wordle answers.
– Pete and Repeat — his running gag for repeated Wordle answers.
– Wordleology — his tongue-in-cheek name for the increasingly elaborate analysis everyone does on Five Forks.
– Excessive emoji and deliberately mangled spelling — “sweeeet,” “wut?!,” “fo’ schizzle,” etc.
– And, increasingly, little surreal stories built around that day’s Wordle.This isn’t something that appeared overnight. By May he was already giving detailed technical feedback to jeb about the Dynamic Filter, including actually testing its behavior and reporting a roughly two-second refresh delay.
Then he became increasingly integrated into the After Party.
For example, on June 27 he described his solving process as starting “down by the creek,” using the Five Forks filter, checking the original word list, considering scamp and ultimately choosing scoop. He got it in 2.There’s also an interesting evolution:
– By July, other players had started recognizing the “kralc” mythology.
– On July 8, someone referred to the After Party as a place for “nerdy wordleologists,” and kralc immediately responded:
“it’s wordleology i tell ya…”
– Another commenter then specifically called the Five Forks community a gathering of “nerdy wordleologists,” and kralc responded that she had “already got the gist of it.”-
Whoa!! Chat really captured kralc!
I love the commentary that the bot uses. It doesn’t just spew out facts.
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Wow!! Summed up kralc it did.
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Dude! We’re famous (in AI land)!
I am particularly proud of making the “Cast of Characters” list.
Can we make a certificate for that? I want to put it on my wall.
(Of course, thanks for sharing).
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I too, am honored to make the cast-of-characters list 🎭
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wow! this is soooo fun. I did ask chatgpt to create the cast of characters in detail and then the short version. This is the…
**very short version**:
* **Jeb — The Mayor:** Runs Five Forks, keeps the records, knows everyone’s history, and welcomes new people.
* **JD — The Analyst:** Spreadsheet brain. Statistics, letter patterns, probabilities, RAISE, and Wordle theory.
* **Christine the Benevolent Slater in EZ Mode — The Social/Analytical Hub:** Data, WordleBot, jokes, grid art, pop culture, and somehow responding to everybody.
* **kralc — The Bard:** Creek stories, surreal prose, weird humor, and 🤯. Nobody quite knows where a kralc comment is going.
* **Mike S — The Riffer:** Pop-culture references and grid-art jokes; excellent at taking someone else’s joke one step further.
* **LEAST was a genius word — The Observer:** Thoughtful, analytical, supportive, and often right there when an interesting Wordle question comes up.
* **Kim S — The Editor:** Cheerleader + terminology police. “Actually, that’s an initialism.” 😉
* **Glenda M — The New Zealand Correspondent:** Arrives while everyone else is asleep and occasionally reminds the Americans that she’s living in the future.
* **Meg — The Australian:** Adds the Australian perspective and joins the international/time-zone crew.
* **Sven — The Engineer:** Naturally gravitates toward the nerdiest possible word.
* **Judy S — The AROSE Woman:** AROSE is her thing. Everyone knows it.
* **Jack K — The Veteran:** Long streaks, milestones, institutional seniority.
* **ADK — The Strategist:** Hard Mode, themed starters, and a strong “new word > PU word” philosophy.**The three centers of gravity:**
**Jeb = the infrastructure**
**JD = the brains**
**Christine = the social glue**
And **kralc = the chaos agent.**That’s basically the After Party.
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In the long version, ChatGPT calls kralc the “creek philosopher” which I think is especially endearing.
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“AROSE is her thing. Everyone knows it.” 🤣
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The long version of After Party Characters was so amazing—so cool you thought of starting that on chatgpt. That is so frickin’ fun!
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So fun! Thanks for sharing. I’ve used the list for a long time, but I’m fairly new to the after party. It has added an enjoyable element to wordle-ing.
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Love it!
I’ll have to start calling Jeb the “Mayor” now. I was using “Chief”.
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Guess I need to be careful about getting voted out of office.
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😎 this is awesomely entertaining, thx! …and i don’t mean in a loki kinda way! ⚡️
especially like how the glenda m reference sums it up: “…occasionally reminds the Americans that she’s living in the future.”
🤔 roads, marty? where we’re going we don’t need roads! 😎🤯
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“There’s even some serious amateur Wordle statistics going on.“
Pretty cool Jeb…referring to JD I’m sure!
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Hey, Chat GPT doesn’t know I get paid for that service! LOL!
I’m not used being a serious person.
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Jeb- Nice! I see a comment I made was even included. Now I know how Navin Johnson (the Jerk) felt . ” I am somebody ! lol
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That’s amazing. Kudos to you Jeb!
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