LIVEN 🎊🎶🤩International Literacy Day & Ampersand Day 👀
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#1907 TUE 09/08/2026
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.
95 responses to “#1907 TUE 09/08/2026”
YODEL was in a crossword I just did and that reminded me of it being on my Starts List. LUMEN is on the 2315, so that seemed like the best next guess. LINEN has already been ♻️ and LIKEN didn’t seem old enough. LIVEN was the most obvious ➕.
Wordle 1,907 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 YODEL 41
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 LUMEN 3
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVEN
WordleBot
Skill 87/99
Luck 75/99
⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛ WINCH
🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ NIFTY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVEN
anything goes, starting w again because why not
Congratulations!
Wordle 1,907 2/6
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ SLANT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVEN
WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 87/99
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Grid art: a squished cowboy hat
Glad my second guess happened to be right here, because it seems like today’s puzzle was tougher, on average!
🦅sweet deuce!
🙋♂️question though:
🤔…sooo, you want to be considered less than average? 🤷♂️😎
Only when “less” is better 🙂
🦅✨🤠 way to go cowpeep!
Wordle 3/6
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ CLEAT (113)
⬜🟩🟨🟩⬜ OILER (8)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVEN
WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 60/99
The bot gave me a high skill rating but still said it would have used sober instead of oiler 🙄
Wordle 1,907 4/6*
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨 STILE
🟩🟩🟨⬛⬛ LIEGE
🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛ LIFER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVEN
WordleBot
Skill 69/99
Luck 58/99
NYT AVG. 3.0
This one gave me a lot of trouble.
Ampersand day—love it!
Wordle 1,907 5/6
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨SLATE
🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛LIBEL
🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛LIMEY
🟩🟩⬛🟩⬛LIFER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩LIVEN
Wordle 1,907 X/6
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟩🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
Younger child
swings at piñata
while siblings get
ready to scramble.
🎉🍬
Nice visual. The yellow form looks like a small horse.
Good job in avoiding a loss.
Uh, … look again, JD.
Geo, I assume your last two were LIKEN & LINEN. That’s rough.
Oh, I thought I saw all green on the last guess.
Bummer!
Phew! + 1
Wordle 1,907 4/6
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩
🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
STEAL
FELON
LUMEN
LIVEN
Lumen, nice word to guess. Surprisingly on the og list too
towers of eee’s ‘n el’s ‘n en’s…oh my!
🤔 are we off to see to wizard 🧙♂️???
Wordle 1,907 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ creek
🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ lapel
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 lumen
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 liven
____________
L3|•_||_•|E4|N2
Wordle 1,907 3/6
⬛⬛🟦⬛🟦
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
STEAL, GRODY left 18 possible, but only 5 unused: BIBLE, LIVEN, LUMEN, MELEE, WELCH. I chose the second, which was a good filter, but was also correct. And an ADD.
Sven… I thought welch was possible, too, except it’s not in the BOT’s possible answer list of 3,209… But had to strike it when I found it not in a 🤖 analysis a few weeks ago (nor ‘twas it in today’s 🤖).
WELCH was removed when they created Wordle Bot. It has a WB% of ZERO.
Another case where they may have gone a bit far on the removals.
Wordle 1,907 2/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 RAISE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVEN – 58% ADD
This is a second for me on this pattern. A DUECE on an ADD!
Last one was INTEL
RAISE ruled out all unplayed OG words.
What’s left?
HELIX #33, LEGIT – 58%, LIVEN – 58%, PETIT – 58%.
LIVEN was selected shortly after INTEL was the answer on 8/30.
Not sure why I didn’t play LEGIT, but that will be the next guess. Tracy, are you taking note of this one? Thanks in advance!
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A very large reference book at the library being held open on a particular page with a weight on the right side.
People RAISE your glass!
Let’s have the time of our lives!
LIVEN up this party!
🦅✨✨ good job there JD! Woot woot woot and a rooty toot toot!
🍸I will abide.🥳
Ooh, you too. Congrats!
🥳🤩🎉
Your grid is mine but shifted a little 🙂
I doublechecked my 8/30 post, and I did mention “LIVEN” as a filter along with “INTEL”.
So, maybe she read my post 9 days ago?
🤔 the plot thickens…
🎶 due due due due…
🎶 due due due due…
📋 recently intercepted classified nyt transmission…
🛰️📡📻…come in please, come in please…🕵️♂️ ff intel on liven…coming soon…over…
Wordle 1,907 4/6
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ Saner
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 Lumen
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 Liken
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Liven
Next time I see that pattern with SANER, maybe I’ll try 5 new letters instead of guessing, so I can get it in 3 tries instead of 4.
Why did you guess LIKEN #1782 ? Just curious.
I was using the Wordle solver on the Word Finder site. On that page, I always start with “Hide recent answers” set to All Time.
After LUMEN, the only remaining unused words were LEBEN and LODEN. Those words aren’t in the Weighted Bottles list, so I changed the “Hide recent answers” setting to None. That page lists LIVEN under “Other Results” with LEBEN and LODEN. That made sense to me because I’ve always heard it with the “en” prefix (“enliven”). The only remaining “Common Word” on that page was LIKEN.
I apparently mistyped LIVEN the first time I tried searching for it in the Weighted Bottles list. I couldn’t find it until after I had tried LIKEN.
My ellipses are jealous that the ampersand gets a special day.
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨SLATE… 7 NU OG WL; 🤖98
⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛RULER… 1 NU OG WL; 🤖29
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨BEZEL… 0 NU OG WL; 🤖8
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩LIVEN… ADD
Well sh💩t…. The odds that a nu og wl is preferred over an add seem to be diminishing faster than a tumbleweed in a dust storm … we are living in the wordle wild west. 🤠
NU=never used
OG=original wordle list, give or take a few
WL=words left
ADD=words not on the OG
🤖=Wordle Bot analyzer
You played it the right way IMHO.
The unplayed OG words are being played at a 50% rate and there are fewer of them (456) vs. the unplayed ADDs (598) which are being played at a 39.5% rate.
So, the odds on the unplayed OG words are still much higher as a category.
REPEATS < #237 chances are even less 10.5%
This is why I'm sticking with RAISE until the ADD odds exceed the OG odds.
Thanks JD … This is very helpful. I wonder, at what rate are the OG vs ADD odds closing in on each other?
It’s interesting to think about repeat rates. If the idea is to add all repeats back into the pool, will it be rather evenly or could it be exponentially faster as we run outta them OG words. Adding year 1 (mostly) back in over the past 6 months might not predict the future. If TB wants to really make it tough, she could add the rest of the repeat words back at once. Tough for we who analyze. It probably doesn’t make a wit of difference to most wordlers who “just play” 🤣.
Well, I’ve been monitoring (loosely). The ADD rate has been hovering anywhere from 35.9% to 41.5% since 8/17.
On 7/30 it was 26.8%. Before that it was about 6%.
So, it took a large jump, but it’s been holding steady for now.
It’s not like the rate is on a steady increase or decrease. It just jumps up suddenly and stays flat.
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Repeat Rates.
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Nobody knows what their ideas are.
Based on the evidence, it appears that they are playing words that were answers before they purchased Wordle which is game #236.
There are 4 REPEATs out of that range, but I think #236 is the logical cutoff point.
This is logical, because the vast number of people were not playing at that point (except Kim S.. LOL).
I don’t see any evidence at all that the REPEAT rate has been increasing or decreasing. If anything, it has decreased slightly. The range varies from 5.0% to 11.8%. Long range average is 10.2% (last I measured it). (I still think it will settle on 10.5% or 10.0%)
As we run out of OG and ADD words, then you might see an uptick on REPEATs. There are only 218 pre #237 of those though.
There are over 1000 unplayed OG and ADD words. That’s almost 3 years worth of Wordle play. I don’t think the REPEATs are really necessary.
TB may think that by having some REPEATs, it makes the game more challenging to the level that they want for most players. She’s into math (I’ll explain that later). So, they might want the bell curve of answers to peak at 4.
Once they are done, they may decide to start over with the entire pool of words that have been played or just put the whole bloody thing on random.
I’m just trying to figure out what shpoopt means. Nice legend 😉
We just had ruler tho, less than a week ago even
🙋♂️
inquiring minds would like to know how you got those sweet three “…NU OG WL; 🤖” columns to line up so nicely, since monospacing is not an option. always been unpredictable and unwieldy in my experience and attempts.
👍 thx in advance.
I think the previous letters in each row just happened to be of similar width. For me, the columns are very slightly misaligned.
🙋🏼♀️ yes… what Ez sed! They are a might wonky, but mostly aligned due to my sweet ellipses. Don’t tell the ampersands, but ellipses are my favorite.
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Wordle 1,907 3/6*
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ TREAD
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 PULSE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVEN
[Pee Wee Soccer]
Not using any lists but Five Forks, it took a whole lot of word elimination to get to LIVEN. Very happy for the 3.
Cool grid art… next time can you give me Pee Wee Herman dancing to tequila?
How did you use the FF filter without any lists to start with? I am 🌽fused.
Those shoes were dope!
My dad LEGIT* had a pair just like them in the 70s. I commandeered them and they legit became the stuff of halloween costumes, skits, and tequila dancing for years to come, until they finally legit fell apart.
*we should all sprinkle LEGIT in our posts to put LEGIT in TB’s 🧠 because legit she’s reading all of our posts. She will legit soon reach out and hire all of us at NYT to be on her wordle team or at least, legit beg us to be on the upcoming new wordle game show. Legit.
I don’t use the Five Forks Filter. I just use the list. … I stare at the puzzle, think of a word that fits, use the alphabet layout on Five Forks to check to speed scroll down to see if it’s been used, find out it’s #1000 something, then repeat. Like I imagine how Peg does it. Just stretching the mind.
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And now, time for Pee-wee:
https://youtu.be/0yfJQUoxN3U
Whoops, wrong link. 😁 …
https://youtu.be/UVKsd8z6scw
I said Peg when I meant Meg. … Apologies to you, southern hemisphere friend. 🙂
Hi Mike S
I do try to think of words before I then check if they are on a list. I believe my brain enjoys the exercise. I use Fiveforks list or even one of the OG lists such as beebom even though I know they are against the ‘religion’ of some.
Peg and Meg are short for Margaret so all good.
That’s exactly what I used to do before the After Party, and I got the idea to make lists of verified unused words that fit the various combinations from my typical starting word. I manually create as I go based on other people’s guesses and Wordle Bot guesses.
My list is fairly short for most combos, so if nothing fits I start plugging in letters to brainstorm possibilities and then check the FF list for prior use, just like you do
I finally got it in 5…
Wordle 1,907 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 SAUCE
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 FEIGN
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 RIPEN
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 LINEN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVEN
I think the threat of a repeat is getting to me. There were only 7 words left after feign and it took me 3 tries…
Ignore the REPEATs.
At your peril. 😱
This is much better than fearing them.
Wordle 1,907 5/6
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ adieu
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 siren
🟨🟩⬜🟩🟩 vixen
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 given
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 liven
Wordle 1,907 3/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 Crate
🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ Loins
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Liven
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ARISE
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ BLOND
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ KNELT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVEN
When I AWOKE, I was still sleepy and misspelt
Checking for the BLND, I put the O back where it belonged in the first place
LIVEN came to mind, but expecting a repeat, I followed the wrong gut feeling.
I KNELT in humility and returned to the land of the LIVING
ARISE was a bit better than AROSE for this puzzle.
It’s too bad you didn’t end up with a 2 on this one.
Thnx JD,
I feel very bad of missing out on a 2.
In “shock”, I tried to correct the error instead of coldly analyzing and boldly type LIVEN
Wordle 1907 3/6 (Bot)
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 steal (115)
🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜ loner (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 liven
Loner seems to be a winner 2nd word … you, Judy L, and Charles all had luck with it today. I will take note ✍🏻
Wordle 1,907 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 STEAL
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟩 FELON
🟩⬜⬜🟩🟩 LUMEN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVEN
I was sure it was Lumen. Til it wasn’t!
I was leaning hard to LUMEN but wondered how common it is. LED bulbs and flashlights.
LUMEN is the common unit of measure for illumination.
Perhaps since I’m an engineer, I care more about units of measure.
LUMEN is also the word for the inside of tubes in your body!
Same guesses today for me
Wordle 1,907 4/6*
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ EARST 324 wl &
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 CLONE 8 wl &
🟨⬜⬜🟩🟨 NEWEL 5 wl &
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVEN
WordleBot
Skill 76/99
Luck 49/99
Prof. Mike’s Word of the Week; EARST chosen by Richard (Maryland)
Another game which required that I leave and come back later when the fog had cleared.
NEWEL is not on the Weighted Bottle List. It did help with letter placement and after the break I saw LIKEN (PU #1782) and LIVEN. Odds still favor the non-PU, so I chose LIVEN. Another contender was LINEN, which has actually been a solution twice (#51 and #1718), so it was highly unlikely to be the winner today.
Good ☀️/🌃 to all!
It looks like EARST is a great start word for hard mode. It would seem to avoid the _A_ER type pattern right off the bat.
What are your thoughts on it since you play hard mode regularly?
Wordle 1,907 3/6
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨slate
🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜loner 58% Add
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩liven 58%. “
We essentially had the same puzzle, only your SLATE is an anagram of my STEAL
Wordle 1,907 3/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨arose
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜unity
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩liven
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ TEARS
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 COUPE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
TEARS has been my starting word for a while.
For my 2nd word, if I only have zero or one known letter, I usually try to find an unused word with C and P. Didn’t help much this time!
For my third word, I knew I needed a word with an E but no A, O or U, and it could have an I. LIVEN popped into my head without any more thought than that. I saw that it was unused so I plugged it in. (If it had been used already, I probably would have tried something else.)
Well done!! Exciting
Wordle 1,907 4/6*
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 arose
🟩🟩🟨🟩⬛ lined
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 liken this is asking too much
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Wordle 1,907 3/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 STEAL 115
🟩⬜🟨🟩⬜ LONER 3
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Of the last 3 remaining, LIKEN was used very recently, and LIVEN felt more common or less technical than LUMEN, and it worked
you’re right, wasn’t time for the monkey wrench
Wordle 1,907 6/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 QUASI 478
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ IDIOT 87
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ MILKY 10
⬜🟩⬜🟨🟨 BIBLE 6
🟩🟩🟨⬜⬜ LIEGE 5
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
PHEW!
oooof! good save!
🎧 i think i can hear the pattern you made. very lively!
deet deet dot dot dute dute
dute deet dot dute deet
dot dot deet deet dute ….
s’got a great rhythm and i tink we can dance to it 😎
Wordle 1,907 4/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 SAUCE
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩 REIGN
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 LINEN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVEN
It’s add-tastic at the moment.
Games played: 1422
Current streak: 395
All-time average: 3.72
Last 100 days: 3.37
This month: 3.50
Best month: 3.03 (Jan 2026)
Nice stats!
I played LIVEN twice before. I guess third time’s a charm.
Scoredle 2/6*
14,855
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩 FELON (17)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVEN
Great play!
Congrats!
🦅✨ woot woot woot!!!
Way to stick to your guns!
Nice!
Wordle 1,907 4/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 AROSE
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ EMPTY
⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛ KNEED
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVEN
got there…..
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ PEACH pu
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ERODE pu
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ QUIET pu
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVEN add
Wordle 1,907 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜AUDIO
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨PRISE
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 GIVEN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩LIVEN
good choices.
And a nice Grid Art!
Jeb, you should change today’s title to ‘International Literacy Day + Ampersand Day’. … Then delete this message. 😁
But that was the redundancy joke. I suspect you are taking it level or two higher, and I’m not seeing it. (Again.)
Humor is subjective, so it’s not us being on different levels.
But to jokesplain, 😁, you already use the ampersand regularly for the daily After Party titles. Not using it would be breaking form, classic subversion of expectation.
Also, using a plus sign would be another classic, slightly dishonoring the honored, like a mini roast: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, what can I share with you about Ampersand that hasn’t been written thousands of times already … on the walls of restrooms up and down the greater eastern seaboard?’ … You know, high brow stuff.
I felt I had to honor the ampersand tradition on ampersand day, but yeah, dishonoring it on ampersand day is next level funny.
I also liked the “& then delete this message.” That’s next-next level squared.