BURST 🥳🍩🤠🧯 Happy Birthday Leo Tolstoy (1828) & Colonel Sanders (1890) 💥 & ☮️ & 🐓
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#1908 WED 09/09/2026
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.
131 responses to “#1908 WED 09/09/2026”
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slowly bursting on the scene
a rusty snail
adorns the creekWordle 1,908 4/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ creek
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ adorn
🟨🟩🟨🟨⬜ rusty
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 burst -
Wordle 3/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 CLEAT (79)
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 IRONS (4)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURSTWordleBot
Skill 97/99
Luck 57/99Late to the party today
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Wordle 1,908 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ANISE
🟨⬜🟨🟩🟩 ROUST
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURSTI thought I’d use ROAST but the A was already eliminated, so I used ROUST.
Grid art: the first autumn leaves have already fallen. 🍁
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Wordle 1,908 2/6
🟨⬜🟨🟩🟩 ROUST
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURSTYay!
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🦅✨ excellent!
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Nice!
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Can we get a roust count? Several people playing it today at a glance
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Hasn’t it been in play for a few days?
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I regularly use it as my first or second guess.
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ROUST is BURSTing out all over?
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Bewildered by the bevy of B words!
Wordle 1,908 3/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ COBRA 31
🟩🟨🟨⬜🟩 BRUNT 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURSTWordleBot
Skill 93/99
Luck 80/99-
There does seem to be a few of those lately. Interesting.
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B has been #3 most common for years, above A and T. C #2
But S blows them all out of the water
Then blows them out the puddle they landed in. No balance at all
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Wordle 1,908 3/6*
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ STEAL
🟨⬜🟨🟩🟩 ROUST
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURSTWordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 65/99Charles – we matched today!
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Awesome SAUCE!
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Wordle 1,908 3/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 SLANT
🟨⬜🟨🟩🟩 ROUST
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURSTWordleBot
Skill 92/99
Luck 66/99Apparently it also could have been WURST, according to the WordleBot. I was not aware that you could have a wurst without the brat.
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Grid art: man wants to return to his chair, but hesitates as he noticed a bee in front of it
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Also, credit to JD for the idea of using = as a separator. I had been using -, but the = looks much more robust.
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======You’re Welcome==========
You know WURST is just a sausage. (The German word for it.)
Bratwurst is just one variety.
We had Liverwurst growing up.
Oktoberfest is coming soon. Prosit!
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Wurst Type Description
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Bratwurst – Coarsely ground sausage, often grilled or fried.Weisswurst – A white sausage made from minced veal and back bacon, traditionally eaten before noon.
Currywurst – A popular street food made from boiled and fried sausage, served with curry ketchup.
Blutwurst – Blood sausage made from pork rind and blood, often served warm.
Nürnberger Bratwürste – Small, thin sausages from Nuremberg, known for their distinct flavor.
Thüringer Rostbratwurst – A traditional sausage from Thuringia, seasoned with a variety of spices.
Regensburger Wurst – A boiled sausage with coarse and fine pork fillings, often served cold or hot.
Ahle Wurst – A hard-pork sausage from Northern Hesse, known for its slow maturation.
Bierwurst – A smoked sausage from Bavaria, flavored with garlic and spices.
Mettwurst – A spreadable sausage made from pork and beef, often used in sandwiches.
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I guess I am not well-versed in wurst!
I have heard of liverwurst, now that you mention it, but I have never heard of those other ones!
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Bratwurst might be the BEST of the WURST though!
(Sorry, I had to go there.)
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Never apologize for a good (or bad) pun!
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Jawohl, Ich liebe Bratwurst mit Senf, Brot, und Bier.
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Or “well-wurst” 😉
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Many years ago, as a college student, traveling thru Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, there was a GREAT restaurant, by the campus, called the Wurst House.
Needless to say, they served fabulous German sandwiches that poor students could afford.
Delish. (Just an aside.)
Thanks for the making me recall the memories.
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very cute grid art 🪑 🐝🚶🏻♂️
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Wordle 1,908 3/6*
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩SLEPT (31)
🟨⬛⬛🟩🟩ROAST (8)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩BURSTWordleBot
Skill 88/99
Luck 60/99-
Your grid art is the same as mine, minus the pesky bee!
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With all of the aroses around here lately,,, bee got busy with all the pollinating dontcha know? 🥀🐝
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Logical and hilarious!
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🟨⬛🟨🟩🟩 ROUST
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURSTSept 8, 2023
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛️ ROUST
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ROUSECURSED WORD
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Nicely done. Sorry it wasn’t a 3 today!
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Wordle 1,908 2/6
🟨⬜🟨🟩🟩 ROUST
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURSTNice to meet a fellow ROUSTabout!
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Yay!
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Roust seems to be the guess of the day. Ez and Least right after me both 3/6 w/ roust 2nd
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🦅🦅✨✨ ✨✨ ✨✨ ✨✨ ✨✨ ✨✨ ✨✨
a double twofer, good for you-fer!
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Wordle 1,908 2/6*
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ STILE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURSTWordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 81/99
NYT AVG. 3.6My first thought was TOAST, but it was already used, with a high number.
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Great Guess!
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🦅✨ eagles are flying high today!
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Yay to all the 2s!
I am content with 3…
Wordle 1,908 3/6🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ SAUCE. 35 wl
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 LOTUS. 7 wl
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURSTI thought of virus, but went with lotus…burst seemed most likely of the words left.
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Wordle 1,908 2/6
🟦🟦⬛⬛⬛
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧STEAL left 29 possible. After last Thursday, there were only 3 unused: BURST, GUSTO, TORUS. I chose well. My 131st solve in 2.
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Excellent! 131!
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🦅✨ Dang! You’re good!
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How was ROUST not an option for you?
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Neither of my resources list it as being on the list of possible answers.
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Wordle 1,908 4/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 adieu
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟩 shout
⬜🟨🟨🟩🟩 crust
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 burst -
Wordle 1,908 4/6
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨OTTER (saw some)
🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛TRUNk
🟨🟩🟨🟨⬛RUSTY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩BURSTTempted into using a repeat on #3
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I did the same!
WORDLE 1,908 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ salon
🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ truce
🟨🟩🟨🟨⬜ rusty
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 burst-
Welcome to the After Party, Sheila!
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Wordle 1,908 2/6
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Steal
Burst
Yay!!-
Way to STEAL that BURST!
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🦅✨ most excellent!
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Wordle 1,908 4/6*
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ TREAD
⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ WORTH
🟨🟨🟩🟨⬛ STRUM
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURST[Smoke Break Outside Regan’s Room]
The irony is that I was thinking that this B trend might have legs, so I was tempted by the repeat BLURT as a second guess. That would have got me the 3.
So many things to second guess: repeats, trends, … . Two. Two things to second guess.
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Tolstoy & Sanders:
War and 21 Piece Bucket
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Funny! Lol
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Mike S, I can’t let that one pass by without a …
Anna Karenina and a Side of Mac & Cheese
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PS I have not been to a KFC in… well let’s just say “a few” decades. Don’t even know if they have mac & cheese actually.
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47 year vegetarian. 27 year vegan.
Yeah, KFC has never been a big hangout spot for me either.
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47 years? OMG… that is amazing. I only racked up 15, but I remember back in the day eating at a restaurant … “Oh, yes we have vegetarian… here’s your plate of baby trees and plain boiled wheat shapes.”
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15 years is nothing to shrug at. That’s a serious commitment.
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich: The Ennui of Facing Life’s Emptiness or Simply Bad Coleslaw?
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Actually, not only not a fan of KFC, not a fan of Tolstoy. Hated Anna Karenina (even the movie). 👎 Like, it’s 800 pages of a woman ruining her life, and honestly? If I wanted to see a hot mess, I’d just look at my September Wordle average. (You thought I was going to say “I’d look in the mirror,” didn’t you, come on now, admit it. LOLZ) 🪞
😡 Probably get some pushback from Russian literature fans but I’ll never forgive my bookclub members who chose Anna Karenina & followed it up with War & Peace.
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BTW, that’s hilarious.
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I hope Ragan’s window was closed… 🚬
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Make that Regan stupid autocorrect 😉
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Regan’s widow was most definitely open by the end. 😱
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Wordle 1,908 2/6
🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜ RAISE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURSTRAISE leaves BURST and DROSS.
ADDs could have been FROSH – 43%, WURST – 55%.
It’s not late enough in September for Oktoberfest, but I thought the WURST could happen! LOL.
BURST would have led to the WURST.
Ein Prosit!
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Flat bed truck with a bucket of KFC fried chicken at the back – extra crispy!They RAISE the alarm.
People take shelter in Kiev.
Drones BURST all over.-
Great game for you too!
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Nice too JD 😊
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🦅✨ look at you with all the 2fers going on!
… the bucket might fall off—looks like it’s teetering on the edge there.”
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Wordle 1,908 2/6
⬛🟨🟨🟩⬛ ABUSE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURSTAbuse left one NU word
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Weird, back from Italy but location doesn’t reflect it.
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Great two !!
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🦅✨ woot woot!
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Awesome!
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🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛SLATE… 3 nu.og.wl; 🤖32
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩BURST💥 … 58% wb🪐 Wordle universe said: Your choices are a donut (torus), an explosion (burst), or whatever the hell a bitty is.
Honestly, it couldn’t have been better, but it could have been wurst 🌭 (which woulda been an add➕ by the way).
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nu=never used
og=original word list of 2,3XX words
🤖=wordle bot / bot’s wl of 3,209 words
ADD➕=added/new words
pu=previously used
wb=weighted bottles
wl=words left-
s/b 🤖=wordle bot / bot’s list of 3,209 words
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Big congrats on 2!
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YAHOO! – 56%
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Tina takes it in two!
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*I ALWAYS want a donut. 🍩 But, Amy, wouldntcha rather have a waffle? 🧇
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Well done.
Bitty is small, as in Alan Jackson’s song:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Bitty“Well, it’s alright to be little bitty
A little hometown or a big old city
Might as well share, might as well smile
Life goes on for a little bitty while.”-
Yes! Now we’re talking!! A good 2-steppin’ song! 🤠
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Congrats to those who got a score of 2!
Wordle 1,908 3/6
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ Crate
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 Loins
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BurstCrate and Loins led to 3 choices, 2 of which were on the PU list. Feeling some anticipatory anxiety about when we will see the next Repeat…😬
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NEW: NO TOMORROW
Using your local time, the After Party will hide tomorrow so that you cannot accidentally see the future.
I’m keeping the “TODAY” button and highlight which was my first way to help avoid that.
Several of us (me about 3 times) have accidentally opened tomorrow and spoiled the game for ourselves.
Let me know if this causes any problem.
Party on, Wayne.
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To our considerate down-under friends. This means you can record your full guess grid including the answer because the risk of spoiling is eliminated.
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Pretty fancy work there, Mayor. 🥳
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Nice!
Party on Garth.
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Smart idea! Thanks jeb!
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This is probably more trouble than it’s worth, but another idea in that vein is to make the word list hide any entries from “today” on local time rather than updating for everyone at midnight Hawaii time.
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I’ve thought about it. The three lists are just long text lists and only one of them has a date value to programmatically hide (CRON). On that same page code *could* hide that answer and then go off looking for a match in the ALPHA list and hide that all before drawing the page.
The BLOCK list though has no such hooks to hang onto and is independent of the Main lists.
So let’s just try to not use yesterday’s word based on memory. (Admittedly I have a hard time remembering yesterday, so I keep every day’s solve in my Notes app and on the After Party!)
I like the idea, though. I will fire up a Busen Burner in the lab. 🧯
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How have you handled the spoilers? Did you go ahead and play your Wordle in 1?
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No. I actually ignore the spoiler and play “what would I have done” using my usual starter rotation and filter patterns. I’ve gone 4 or 5 doing that!
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Wordle 1908 3/6 (Bot)
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ SAUCE (35)
🟨🟨⬜🟥🟨 USHER #169 (5)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURST -
Wordle 1,908 3/6
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛SLATE
⬛🟨🟨🟩🟩CRUST
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩BURST -
Wordle 1,908 3/6
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜slate
🟨⬜🟨🟩🟩roust 55%.
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩burst 58%🤷♀️Why did I choose ROUST first?
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Still a nice 3 tho!
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ROUST might generally be a better filter word in that situation even if it is individually less likely than BURST
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You tell us.
Maybe you wanted to play the “O”.
For me, O is a tier 2 letter (ranks 6th).
B is a tier 4 letter (ranks 18th).
EARSI OTYLN UCPDH GMBKF WV ZJXQ
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Wordle 1,908 2/6*
⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛ arose needed this, upgrading our cell phones.
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I’ll bite: What?
(Nice 2.)
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was on hold for over 2 hours waiting for help, was disconnected and have to call back today. was just venting in advance, sorry for the mystery.
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🦅✨ another twofer for team AROSE! Woot!
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Good game!
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Great!
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Wordle 1,908 3/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 Saner
⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨 Virus
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BurstAfter SANER, I used various filters in my favorite solver. Then I looked up several words in Weighted Bottles.
burst, frisk, risky, virus, 58%
dross, 57.2368%
torus, 48.4331%
grows, horst, rishi, yours, 0%Then I counted the number of non-zero words that have each letter:
B
D
F
I x3
K x2
O x2
T x2
U x3
V
YI tried using Miriam Webster to find words with IOUTK, but eventually decided to try VIRUS.
After VIRUS, only one possibility remained in the solver.
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🙋🏼♀️Pray tell… what is your favorite solver? 🤔
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I was using the Wordle solver on the Word Finder site:
https://www.thewordfinder.com/wordle-solverIt’s not perfect but it’s the best one I’ve found so far. I like seeing the remaining possible words, filtering them by common words, hiding past answers, and seeing a percentage for each letter based on the list of remaining words. Those percentages help me come up with a word with the five new likely letters for my second guess.
I wish that site would allow sorting or filtering of words by their Weighted Bottle score. Maybe someday, I’ll create an account on that site just to give them feedback.
It also has a “hide words ending in S” option, but that hides valid words like TORUS and VIRUS, in addition to plural words. It does not have a “hide words ending in ED” for past tense words.
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Download the Word Lookup app.
You can plug I, U, K, O, T into the anagrammer and add ? as a wildcard letter if needed.
I, U, K, O, T, ? gives you
KNOUT, KUSTI, OUTIE, QUOIT, TAIKO, TUPIK
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Thanks for the suggestion, JD. I’ll keep it in mind.
I hesitate to install apps on my phone. I recently uninstalled a bunch of apps and deleted several files in an attempt to troubleshoot a problem.
For that type of word lookup, I like Mirriam-Webster’s Word Finder:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordfinderThat page is usually very helpful. Today was one of the exceptions. IOUTK yeilded nothing, so I dropped the K. IOUT gave me:
fotui, outie, quoit, Tious, TiouxNone of those appealed to me, so I looked back at this list:
burst, frisk, risky, virus, 58%
dross, 57.2368%
torus, 48.4331%That’s why I decided to go with VIRUS for my second word.
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Here’s an online tool. No app necessary.
https://anagramer.org/scrabble-word-finder/
You can enter in “?” to add a wildcard letter (a blank tile in Scrabble).
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Oh, I see! That is different than what I was thinking, and more helpful. I have bookmarked that site for next time. Thank you.
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Wordle 1,908 3/6
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ STEAL 40
🟨⬜🟨🟩🟩 ROUST 2
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩BURST seemed a little less foreign than WURST, so I chose it for birdie
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Wordle 1,908 2/6*
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 EARST 4 wl
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BURSTWordleBot
Skill 88/99
Luck 91/99
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Prof. Mike’s Word of the Week; EARST chosen by Richard (Maryland)Great day for EARST players! BURST and WURST were not previous solutions. FIRST (#56) and WORST (#898) were the others.
WURST would make a good Connections word: BRAT, KNOCK, LIVER, HANS 🙂
Good ☀️/🌃 to all!-
Great day indeed!
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EARST BURST onto the scene with a 2!
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Wordle 1,908 2/6
⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜arose
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩burst-
🦅✨ go team Arose!
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Nice!
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AROSE to the occasion!
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ahhh, nice 😁
🟩🟨🟨⬜🟩 🍀 start (wordle ESP) word I began using last month….
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 my spring flowers have BURST into colour-
Wonderful!
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🦅✨congrats on yer twofer!
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Nice Glenda!
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Yay Glenda!
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Wordle 1,908 4/6*
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜AUDIO
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜BUMPY
🟩🟩🟨⬜🟨BUTES
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩BURST -
Wordle 1,908 3/6
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ QUASI 14
⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ FUSSY 8
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Nice to get a break from several times of only a yellow I which leaves 478 possible solves.
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Comments Update:
Some of you have had problems with posts not publishing. It turns out there are two systems that examine comments for either 1) moderation or 2) spam. I had not been checking #2 and found many there.
I’ve modified WordPress adding a rule to bypass 1 and 2 if you have 5 or more comments approved. So the regulars can go to town with emojis, codes, links, tables, html, etc and not get blocked. Fingers crossed! 🤞🏼
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🤣 Now that’s *GENIUS* funny!
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Lol! Good one!
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Woot woot!
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Thanks Jeb for all you do on this site.
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