FOCUS (repeat) ♻️🪬👁️🪐 Happy Grandparents Day
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#1912 SUN 09/13/2026
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.
162 responses to “#1912 SUN 09/13/2026”
Well, that was dumb. Hasty ♻️ 2nd guess. 😣 Then chose the ➕ instead of ♻️ for 3rd guess. What was I thinking? 🤦🏻♀️💩
Wordle 1,912 4/6*
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ WISPY 333
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ BLUSH 25
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 MUCUS 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
WordleBot
Skill 83/99
Luck 56/99
I think choosing an ADD over a repeat is generally a good strategy. It’s very possible that repeats increase in frequency as repeat droughts lengthen, but I don’t think we have enough data yet to point to any particular drought length at which we can confidently say that a repeat is better than an ADD on that day.
Wordle 1,912 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ANISE
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 GUSTO
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
Wordle 1,912 3/6
🟦⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟧⬛🟧⬛
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
STEAL, KORUN left only only one possible, which was a repeat.
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛ FRISK
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
Repeat. Should’ve been today too
🦅✨… weight wut? How many of those 🦅s have you gotten this month? Seems like you’ve been racking up the “Sorry you didn’t get a 3” comments lately… 😜
Great! Sorry it wasn’t a 3!
You’ve been getting a lot of 2’s lately.
Wordle 1,912 5/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ SLANT
⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ HOUSE
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 BOGUS
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 MODUS
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 35/99
I generally always try a reasonable-seeming ADD over a repeat, which usually works well (overall average of ~3.34), but today clearly did not. I thought about going with the repeat before the prospective ADDs, considering the drought, but stuck to my strategy.
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Grid art: sun rising over a very tall flag that is dwarfing the adjacent building
🇳🇺 that is a huge flag…. congrats on your overall average! 🆒🫘
You did the right thing in sticking to your strategy. In the long run, it will pay off.
Your last 2 guesses were the same as mine with the same result (5).
Your lifetime average is better than mine. 3.42 (not counting the last 2 days.)
🔮 The re-pete prophecy has been fulfilled.
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛Slate… 17.gnu.og.wl 🤖61
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛Hussy… 1.gnu.og.wl 🤖10
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩Virus… 0.gnu.og.wl & 2 re-petes
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩FOCUS #267 (bonus #1331)
🔮 I told y’all yesterday that the grand cosmic alignment of Re-pete was upon us TODAY. 📆
Although I begged PTB to grant us a regular 20-sided die (theory) for JD’s geometric-adjacent 🧠, alas, she chose an irregular 19-sided (theory) instead. Prayers for JD’s 🧠.
🪬👁️🪐 But a prophecy is a prophecy. ✨🔮
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PTB=powers that be/TB
TB=Tracy Bennett
gnu=nu
nu=never used
My brain is OK. (RU OK brain? Yes, I am).
It could be either a 19-sided or 20-side die theory.
If it was the 19, then it was %100 chance of a REPEAT today.
If it was the 20, then it was only %50 chance of a REPEAT today.
I still think of the 20-sided die theory as being an ever increasing likelihood of there being a repeat up to 20 days with the 50% break being on day 10, but the percentages edging below 10 because there is always at least a chance of an early repeat.
Day 1 – Only 1 hits: 1/20, 5%.
Day 2 – 1 & 2 hit: 2/20, 10%
Day 3 – 1-3 hit: 3/20, 15%
… And so on. …
So today being day 19 there was a 95% chance of a repeat (19/20). The only roll that would have missed today was a Nat 20.
This is only looking at it through my thinking of the d20 theory, which in no way has been proven to be a thing. Also I’m not incorporating knowledge of any prespecified number of repeats that were slated for any given amount of time.
I agree, but it depends on your frame of reference.
This was from the perspective of 18 days already been past the last REPEAT.
From DAY 0 post REPEAT, then you’re correct.
Technically, if the d20 theory is right, then every day is a 5% of happening (generically). 1 in 20 from Day 0, then 1 in 19 Day 1, 1 in 18 – Day 2, etc. until it happens.
🧠 JD & Mike S just broke my brain.
Ah, I’m having a difficult time picturing your die, or maybe dice in your description.
I’m picturing a physical d20. When it’s rolled on day one there’s only a repeat if a 1 is rolled. Then each subsequent day without a repeat another number is added to those possible to trigger a repeat.
Your description makes it sound like a side is being lopped off the die after each day that fails to produce a repeat. (Or rerolls are being done each time an eliminated number is rolled.) And it sounds like there’s only one side of the die that triggers a repeat
This approach seems like it would have a much lower chance of producing repeats in the first 10 days as often they’ve happened. Even on day 17 there would have only been a 1/3 chance of a repeat with this approach
But now I see from your description where you got the 50% from. You’re saying day 19 was essentially a roll of a two-sided die.
Speaking of two-sided dice:
Egyptians used two-sided dice thousands of years ago. They used split dowels (or split reeds) that when dropped either landed on the flat side or the rounded side. The game of Senet uses five of these throwing sticks as a d6: each round side up adds up the 1-5; all flat sides up equal 6.
Fascinating! I love ancient culture stuff!
I’ve been to Egypt (Nile cruise), it was pretty awesome.
I’m all over the Ancient Egypt programming on the History channel.
I could have seriously gone into archeology.
🤔 very interesting…
dost thou have a peer amid us?
🤷♂️😎😉
When JD talks about a d20 theory, he means that, immediately after any given repeat, TB rolls a die to determine the number of days until the next repeat.
So, if today is a repeat, she rolls the die, and if it says 1, the next repeat is tomorrow. If it says 20, the next repeat is in 20 days.
Of course, there are different ways one could use a 20-sided die to determine when there’s a repeat. You suggested an interesting method, or one could roll it once every day, and add in a repeat that day only if the die lands on 20. In that case, it would be a static 5% every day and could theoretically go a whole year without a repeat (very unlikely).
Oh, I never considered rolling the d20 only once after a repeat to determine the time the next repeat would occur, making an immediate 5% chance for any given day of the next 20.
That doesn’t sound fun at all. Not nearly enough dice rolling with that approach. How would they justify any long term employment that way? 😁
If a d20 were used on day of repeat, we would see a much more even distribution across the next 20 days than what we have seen. Instead we see heavy skew on the 10+ day side.
I think it a human pseudo random as TB (or one of her people) just pick the next date on the calendar with the instructions “mix it up” for next week or the week after that.
Exactly! And you’re right, it could be used in multiple ways.
As a casual observation, I’ve notice that NYT adds about 6-8 words at a time.
I don’t know that this has any effect at all on when the ADD or REPEAT is coming. I just find it interesting.
In reality, the magical 19-sided (or 20-sided) die is a nice visual to help us understand what is really being used. That is a random number generator.
In code it looks like this.
next_repeat_day_increment = int(random(1,19));
This would return one of the following (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19)
The average would be 10, and the odds would be %10.
BTW, you need the “int” function to force it to return an integer rather than a decimal number.
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There is no “regular” polyhedron with 19 sides.
Only tetrahedron (4), cube (6), octahedron (8), dodecahedron (12) and icosahedron (20).
If you played early versions of D & D, those were the only dice you got to use.
I have seen a 10-sided die before, but the sides are not regular polygons (equilateral triangles, squares, pentagons etc.)
Even an irregular polyhedron with 19 sides would be difficult to make spherical and would not be practical for rolling with even odds for each side.
So sorry about breaking your brain BTW.
Naw… been like that for quite some time… 🧠 If anything, you’ve improved it. 😜
Wordle 1,912 3/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ Cleat
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ Rosin
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Focus
Still hopeful that one day soon Cleat or Rosin might be the answer. Happy Grandparents Day to all of us Grandmas and Grandpas!
Yes to both!
Wordle 1,912 3/6*
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ STILE
🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛ FROSH
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
WordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 73/99
NYT AVG. 85
well, shoot…durned if’n i dint leave my van park’d too close to the crick las’ night. heavy rain prit near warshed her in. should a been payin’ atenshun stead a munchin’ on dat guvmint cheese.
had to fetch my trusty ol’ ford tractor 😉 an’ winch ‘er out. took mor’n a few tries to git ‘er lined up jess rite. was usin’ one of them fancy new octadecahedron-ick ‘ttachments. sure was confusin’. 🤔
ol’ russ down at the feed store said it’d be a piece o’ damn cake, pullin’ er out with it. pfffffft. rekon it took me coupla hours an’ ’bout nineteen tries. finelee got ‘er up an’ when that rear wheel came into focus i reelized it was one o’ them deja voo all over agin re-pete sityeeayshuns. who gnu? 😉🤷♂️😎🤯
Wordle 1,912 4/6*
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ creek
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ winch
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ octal
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 focus
🧀⛈️🐙🪩🍰🚐>~…..~🚜👍🤷♂️🔀
(👆wordle.ss version 😎)
What kralc sounds like in my head:
That was fantastic!!!
Wow! That was cool.
Wow, you nailed it! I love it
🤣 Literally laughing so hard I have tears squirting out of my eyes! The story and the voice together … Forget the poetry book, make it a radio show Kralc!
You should be the voice reading the audiobook version of kralc’s memoir!
That’s got to be AI generated??? No? Yes? 🤔
Just me. Voice Memo app. One take!
He read it perfectly except that he slightly mispronounced “octadecahedron,” so I do believe that it was a fully human endeavor!
Well hot damn, holy sh💩t, and heavens to betsy! That is perfection! 🤯 👌
Had no idear that we could post voice memos.
It was exactly his pronunciation of octadecahedron that made this so hilarious. 😂 still laughing …
🤯🤯🤯 @tedoz dun opened up a bran’ new highway. 🤷♂️
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🤔might jess be one of them five forks been hearin' 'bout…
Great idea!
Beauty voice TedOz.
🤯😎 @tedoz…whoooweeee!
u dun nailed it!
…wowser, i reckon youze got yerself some durn sweet pipes…’minds me a listnin’ to them melodic peepers, crickets ‘n cicadas down by the crick. play on!!!
real talent TedOz 👍
I’ll bite. What is “octadecahedron-ick”? 🐙
🤷♂️ good question…kinda hard to describe.*
ol’ russ, down at the feed store, ‘sured me i needed one.
*see @jd for detailed explanation (and pronunciation 😉)…
Break down the Latin / Greek
Octa means 8 like Octagon
Deca means 10 like Decade
Octa (8) + Deca (10) = OctaDeca (18)
A hedron is a 3 dimensional shape with planar sides like a cube ( hexahedron)
🙋🏼♀️ Breakdown of -ick … if I’m guessin’ correktally, 😉 it’s a nod to the mispronunciation of asterisk. *️⃣ If not, then, ䷀… 🤷♀️ “never mind.” 👵🏻
Wordle 1,912 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜cleat (64)
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩quips (2)
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩mucus (2) 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩focus
WordleBot
Skill 60/99
Luck 68/99
There went my 3.0 September average 🙃
Girlfriend… I am right there with you. I’m thinking we’re doing okay, as long as we have mountains. 🏔️ … Your new name is AWESOME!!!
Same here. My monthly 3.0 average is temporarily above 3.0 now.
There is plenty of time to bring it back down though!
Think positive.
I wish the Wordle website would us more stats like monthly averages. I haven’t been keeping track of mine in a spreadsheet, so all I can do is calculate my overall average
It’s never too late to join the spreadsheet gang!
You’re right! Maybe TB will decide to play cleat this month 😉
3 is good and I beat the Bot for the 11th time…
Wordle 1,912 3/6
🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ SAUCE. 7WL
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 MUSIC 3 WL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
I really thought MUSIC was THE word…
Wordle 1,912 3/6*
🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛SAUCE
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 MUSIC
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩FOCUS
We are Wordle twins again! Had the samethoughts about MUSIC!!
When is the darn repeat finally going to happen??!
🙋🏼♀️ Today!
Oops! Must’ve had a brain fart in between when I solved and when I posted lol 🤪
Guess I need to FOCUS a little better next time!
Wordle 1,912 3/6*
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TREAD
⬛🟩🟨🟨⬛ POUCH
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
[The Knight’s Tomb Chest]
After POUCH I really tried to find a non-repeat. But the O U separation, the C, and the letters I burned seemed to lock FOCUS in as the only first year repeat.
Happy for the 3. … The d20 *isn’t* dead! Long live the d20!
The incomprehensible d19 lives, too! 🆒🫘 on your three!
Wordle 1,912 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ EARST 105 wl
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ SOILY 7 wl
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
WordleBot
Skill 87/99
Luck 52/99
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Prof. Mike’s Word of the Week; EARST chosen by Richard (Maryland)
I wanted the floating S from EARST in position 1 and the Y in 5. SOILY is a word that has been helpful in a previous game. It placed O in second place and left two possibilities for S: *OS** or *O**S. I thought of BOSUN (not likely and turned out not to be a Weighted Bottle), BONUS, and FOCUS. We were overdue for a repeat and FOCUS was it!
Good ☀️/🌃 to all!
Late posting today: slept in on a rainy day:-) I’ll go back to read the posting stats and discussion.
What are these ADD and NU words people refer to and where do I find the lists?
NU means never used, so any word that’s not on the Five Forks list.
ADD is a word that was not on the original solution list of the game, as developed by Josh Wardle. The NYT removed some words from his list and occasionally adds more.
🙋🏼♀️ Glossary & word list info: https://www.fiveforks.com/wordle/tips/
🙋🏼♀️Actual lists: JD/Jeb have had very good discussions about lists during the last few After Parties, so search for them there for a wealth of info.
🙋🏼♀️Wordle Tools site has lots of lists including “weighted wordlebot words” link. I think the assumption is that it has all the words the wordlebot sees as potential solutions (even though in the bot analysis many of these words are 0% or <0.1% probable such as -ed words).
The re-pete lists on Five Forks is superior to wordle tools, but there are some very cool analyzing tools on there that are fun and not spoilers.
https://wordletools.azurewebsites.net/
‼️There are a few SPOILERS on wordle tools website!‼️
⛔️”Added Solutions” link: Word on the street is that the upcoming ADDs perhaps with dates are here—which is something nobody here wants to see.
⛔️”Weighted Solutions” link: I’ve heard folks say something about needing to refresh the screen for the page every day so the solution for the day is added. For some people that is a spoiler. I don’t frequent this list just in case. 😜
Mschief,
Use this list and the FF list and you should be fine.
https://wordletools.azurewebsites.net/weightedbottles?SortOrder=ByWeight&submit=Submit
Just don’t play any words that are below 37% WB score. It includes all OG words and the ADD’s.
Try to fade REPEATs with puzzle numbers over #364 as well.
Also, avoid words already been repeated.
I always have to remind myself this as there are more of them.
Scoredle 4/6*
14,855
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 AUDIO (284)
⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ ROUST (21)
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 BOGUS (13)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
Bogus is a word I associate with Junior High, which makes it feel like it’s slang … 😆🤔 would have made a great solution.
Wordle 1,912 5/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ RAISE
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ STUNK
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ BUSHY
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 MODUS
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
So, finally on the 19th day, we get an ADD
RAISE leaves 28 NU OG words.
I don’t have an awesome filter for this pattern; so, I have been playing STUNK, because 18 OG words start with S.
STUNK leaves the OG words
BUSHY, HUMUS, LUPUS, MUCUS, PUSHY
and the ADDs
BOGUS 58%, BOLUS 58%, CUSHY 58%, GUSHY 57% , HOCUS 44%, KUDOS 44%, MODUS 58%
I wasn’t considering ADDs >#236; so, that burned me, but I don’t know it would have made a difference.
I actually thought it would be BOGUS today.
I decided on BUSHY. Hoping it wouldn’t be PUSHY, CUSHY or GUSHY. Then, it would have been a 5 for sure.
BUSHY ruled out every word but MODUS
So, I played MODUS.
That ruled out the ADDs.
Only FOCUS #267 is left.
I may need to add REPEATs up to #364 to my list now.
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Smoke comes out of a grill in the forest preserve where there is a covered area where the picnic tables are.
I think the grid art looks more like an old steam engine locomotive
I like this vision better too!
… going to a threshing bee … 🌾
WordleBot (with “knowledge of prior answers” turned on) thought that FOCUS was just as likely as MODUS. The older a repeat is, the closer it’s marked in likelihood to a NU.
Of course, the WB may just be guessing without real knowledge of how the words are decided. But, I do think this emphasizes a possibility that I think I mentioned once before: that TB isn’t using a random number generator/die to choose the day of a repeat.
Rather, she could be choosing among all available words with each word’s likelihood based on its relative weight, repeats simply having lower weights that gradually increase as they get older.
What the Bot is doing and what TB is doing are 2 different things (even though they are both the NYT).
The Bot program uses the “Weighted Bottles” percentage to predict the likelihood of a word being the answer.
I am not sure if TB is involved in setting the WB% on the words or not. Maybe.
TB (and perhaps her team) is curating a list of answers based on numerous criteria which we don’t know. If I had to speculate, it’s based on:
A) making the game the right level of “challenge” for most players. I think this is an “average” score of 4 guesses. She doesn’t want to make it too easy or impossible to solve.
B) feedback she gets from the players? I think the increase in ADDs reflects some of the feedback (maybe).
C) Stretching this OG answer list which only has 454 words left out of 2315 to end on a particular date. Adding the ADD’s is like adding whole milk to the chocolate milk to stretch it a few extra days (just not as tasty).
So, since CIGAR2, there have been an average of 10.3% REPEATs, and an average of 12.1% ADDs.
10% or 10.5% ADDs is still theoretically their goal. We still lack data.
Future REPEAT rate is 10.0%.
Future ADD rate is now 32.5%.
So, I don’t know what their target is for ADDs is, because it has varied from 31.4% to 41.5%. This is a huge variance since FLUME #1867 on 7/30/26. Can we say 36.5%? (I was basing it on 39.5%).
The d20 (less likely) or d19 theory is still alive theoretically.
A d20 spacing would result in a long run average of 10.5 days. This is a 9.5% rate (10.3% is quite a bit higher.)
A d19 spacing would result in a long run average of 10. This is a 10% rate. (10.3% is a little bit higher.)
What would clinch it is whether we get 20 or more days between REPEATs. If it is 20, then d19 is dead. If it is > 20, then d20 is dead.
I wonder if I could set up a “NYT Wordle Feedback” page where we could offer some feedback to TB et al. Maybe she would assign someone to “cover” Five Forks Labs and respond?
Sure, not all 10,000 daily users are offering feedback, but that’s a potential 20,000 highly engaged eyeballs. Any Wordler using Five Forks is pretty dedicated to the game.
Power to the people!
If I could like this comment, I would. But, I’ll comment that I like this comment, instead. 😵💫
I believe in one of her videos, TB states that they are open to suggestions / input. So, I think this would be worth the try.
It makes sense to me that TB may want to target a particular repeat rate, but do enough people pay attention to OG vs. ADD NU words that she would care about the ADD rate?
For example, wouldn’t it be just as plausible that she has simply added some number of ADD words to the Solutions pool and then is picking randomly from there, with NU ADDs having equal likelihood as NU OG words?
Of course, we have no way to determine if this theory matches the data because we would need to know the number of total ADDs to this master Solution list, and we only know the ADDs that have been used so far + the ones that will soon be used.
Since the ADD rate has not waivered much (approximately 10-10.5%) over the last few months (even when compared to the future ADD rate), it makes perfect sense to me.
Otherwise, it would vary a lot.
The words get added to the solution pool by simply moving the words from the “playable” words to the “solution” pool but only on the days scheduled 30-40 days in advance.
If they were moving words to the scheduled days beyond that, then Wordle Tools (and others) would have picked up on that already.
I think we already know the ADDs they are planning to ADD. It’s called the Weighted Bottles list.
Take the Weighted Bottles list, subtract all 2309 OG words, then, look for words with scores with at least 37%. That’s your ADD list.
If they altered the ADD list, then it would show up on Weighted Bottles first.
You have to remember that Wordle and Wordle Bot are both run by NYT. So, a future solution on the Wordle List would absolutely show up on the Wordle Bot (Weighted Bottles) first.
The reason why she’s doing the REPEATs in the first place , is because they are running out of words. She knows that groups like us (Five Forks) are tracking it. Prior to 2/2/26, there were no REPEATs. So, the number of guesses were decreasing (probably globally). You see a lot more 3’s and 2’s, because the pool of solutions has shrunk.
I think she’s trying to keep the average number of guesses at 4.0. There’s an obvious bell curve distribution around some number of guesses. So, she want 4.0 to be the peak of the curve.
By introducing REPEATs (and also rare ADDs like PSHAW) into the pool, it makes the puzzle a little more challenging (in an attempt to keep that average number of guesses at 4.0).
This group is almost always going to beat a 4.0 average, because we are expert level Wordlers. (We are far from casual players of the game.)
We are the Nerdlers!
It took me an hour today to play today … trying to find a perfect filter was fruitless—there were so many potential wells, cliffs, and pillars of doom ䷀… The best I could do was a pu.og word that got it down to 4 words in 2 groups, and I had tested at least 10 words in my charts. I had 4 whomp words that tested even worse, including the one the 🤖 chose. The bot is weighing a lot more bits of information than I, though.
Right, when I match one letter in the wrong position, I’m put at a disadvantage right out of the gate and there are 25+ OG words to choose from. This isn’t even including ADDs or REPEATs.
You just have to make your best guess on guess 2.
So, when it’s one of these patterns and a REPEAT, it doesn’t usually work out great for me.
But, in Hunger Games form, the odds are ever in our favor.
So, I am willing to take a few 4’s (or a 5 like today).
Every day a word is played, another word comes off one of the 3 lists. Our odds tick up a little bit. So, we’ve got that going for us… which is nice.
JD,
I have noticed your discussions of the words added since NYT/TB took over Wordle, but I did not pay attention to the significance thereof.
The following comment from pyt in Wordle Review helped turn on the light bulb over my head:
https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4iu08t?rsrc=cshare&smid=url-share
I try not to get involved with lists beyond FF, but I think Added Words would be worth the effort.
Thanks ADK.
I think the “Added Words” list is actually the “Weighted Bottles” list (subtracting the OG words).
I agree with the poster about the use of AI. You have to screen the results carefully. There is a lot of BS. I use Gemini a lot and it makes a lot of mistakes. I recently, switched to Claude (for work purposes mostly).
Wordle 1,912 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ Saner
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Pithy
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ Bosom
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Focus
Words that end in S or ED tend to be more difficult for me because I’m avoiding plural and past tense.
Wordle 1,912 3/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 adieu
🟨⬜🟨🟩⬜ croup
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 focus
Happy Grandparents Day Everyone 🎉🎉🎉
My Avatar is me being a grandpa. I have my finger “caught” in a porcupine puzzle the grands played with at our house. I used to send them little videos back in COVID days since visits were limited.
Hi Jeb, Happy Grandfather! How do I change my avatar, if at all possible??
According to the FAQ, you can set up a http://www.gravatar.com account (owned by WordPress) to create your own avatar
Wordle 1912 3/6 (Bot)
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ REACT #28 (68)
🟨🟩⬜⬜🟨 SONIC #177 (3)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS #267
Got that out of my system.
I hear you!
And Jeb takes the lead. 😁
🥳 Congrats on the re-pete extravaganza!
🥳Happy grandparents day to you young man!
Wordle 1,912 4/6
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛SLATE
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛CRONY
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨DISCO
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩FOCUS
Wordle 1,912 4/6*
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ STEAL
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 VIRUS (nu)
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 BOGUS (nu)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
Hocus Pocus! (Not)
Voila! (Not)
A repeat!! It finally happened!! 🐰🎩🪄
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ AROSE
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜ BOULT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
No HOCUS POCUS today, nor a LOTUS in A ROSE garden.
Let’s FOCUS on the MODUS operandi, an expected repeat
Good one!
Wordle 1,912 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜slate
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜risky og 58%
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩mucus nu 58%
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩focus pu #267.
Knew a repeat was coming. Thought of FOCUS but had to try the other reasonable words first.
I had the same experience, @Judy L
Me, too, fellow Slater.
Wordle 1,912 3/6
🟨⬛🟨🟩⬛ CLOUT
🟨⬛🟩🟩⬛ OCCUR
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
Only two words to choose from after Clout and they were both PU. Went with Occur first ….but I’m always happy with a 3!
Wordle 1,912 4/6
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ STEAL
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ BISON
⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ WOOSH
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
Chasing an S to the end
Wordle 1,912 3/6
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜arose
🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜scion
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩focus
Scion, if wrong, would have narrowed it down to the correct NU word on my 3rd guess. I just got lucky that, when it eliminated all of the NUs, it narrowed it down to only 2 PUs and I picked the earlier one. (I didn’t know that was a strategy until I joined FF after party.)
Wordle 1,912 3/6*
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I’m back in your camp, after yesterday’s headshake.
Wordle 1,912 3/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ STEAL 61
⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ MOUSY 4
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
2 of 4 remaining after guess 2 were PU, and I lucked out, because had I thought of BOGUS I would have played it 3rd. The others NU HOCUS I thought was not a “real” word, so between BONUS and FOCUS I went with the much older PU date. I was surprised to see in the WB analysis after I was done that HOCUS was indeed the 4th possible answer.
I’m even more surprised now that there was not a 5th possible answer of POCUS.
Hocus is supposedly a real word meaning “to deceive,” but the etymology of the word is a shortening of “hocus-pocus”!
After my initial guess, I thought it would be a repeat, especially since the odds were high. Out of many possibilities, I chose one that was on the 13 of the month and also happened to be my birthday! Sometimes you just get lucky.
Scoredle 2/6*
14,855
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛ FELON (51)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS
That’s a cool way to choose today! And Happy Birthday…that is if you meant the 13th of this month is your birthday!
It’s the 13th of March, but thanks for the birthday wish!
nice one
Great Start!
🧨💥 sweet deuce! way to 🎲🎲!
🤔 soooo, you got the 313? nice!
👍 comin’ atcha from right h’yar in the d.
Congrats!
🦅✨✨✨ Lucky 1️⃣3️⃣ 🍀
Happy in 3-land 😊
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ PEACH pu
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ CORNY pu (in case it was CRONY…)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS pu (because the C ruled out: TORUS, KUDOS, BOGUS …. all of which I’m keen to use)
Wordle 1,912 4/6
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ QUASI 64
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ UNSET 20
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ SLURP 4
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOCUS PU 267
Equalled the Bot
WB listed BOGUS HOCUS and MODUS
After SLURP my brain ran out of ideas and I used WORDSRATED
Two cheerleaders on grassy field.
Two cheerleaders…love it!
In my NYT games app the bot solved it in two steps. Is there more than one bot?
The Bot can be set to hard mode or normal mode, and it also can be set to be “aware of past answers” or not.
That creates four variations that lead to different answers:
normal / not aware (standard)
hard / not aware
normal / aware
hard / not aware
Do you happen to know if this setting affects whether you get the “beat the bot” badge?
I’ve seen some people mention the badge, but I’ve never gotten it. I’ve been wondering if it’s because I have the bot set to aware
I do not know, but I also have set to “aware” and I don’t recall getting a beat the bot badge either. But really, the only thing I’m after is the WL stats which I use when posting my grid.
It does NOT matter whenever I play, because there are many times I get the badge (with knowledge toggled on in ez standard mode) but the grid shows a tie. Then I toggle knowledge off and 💥 shazam I beat the bot.
Like the movie I-Robot, there are literally hundreds of them!
Wordle 1,912 3/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 AUDIO
🟨🟨🟨🟩⬜SCOUT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩FOCUS
Well done!!
Great scouting
kralc’s After Party stats report request. Anyone greater than 10 comments. Link to full report at bottom.
Google Sheets Full Report.
I guess the Comm stat largely reflects how long ago we joined the After Party.
The relationship between Comm and Reply indicates how much we encourage others?
Do the stats include participation using earlier names?
Comm(ent) is when you start a comment, usually your grid, and normally just 1 per day, so yes that correlates with how long you have been posting. I will often start a second comment thread with an announcement (like this one.) JD also often starts new same day topics.
Replies are generally encouraging, but we’ve had a few battles. But that’s fun.
Any variation of your name is included in the report as long as it was the same (hidden) email. Email is the “key”. I just chose the last version of your name to show in the report.
Thanks!!
How interesting Jeb – my position’s not surprising as I ‘came-to-the-Party’ 04/04/26, a week post-launch, on which date there were 33 participating
I enjoyed a reminisce at the pared-back nature of the CRAIC – It has evolved significantly….
It’s fitting that you began early given you do that every day as our leading Pacific Correspondent! 😉
😊👍
I feel like I’m right in the middle of the participation curve here, with only 3 users (Teelee, Donna Schmidt, Sven) having more comments and fewer replies than me, and only two users (Meg, Christine The Benevolent) having fewer comments and more replies.
The number of comments looks right, but my start date is not right. Although I’ve been playing Wordle almost since it started and discovered FF quite a while ago (but only used the PU list), I’m pretty sure my first post was on 7/18 asking how to show my game, and then I first posted my game to the after party on 7/19.
I checked using admin search. Your first comment was April 4 as part of the infamous “SANDY” repeat discussion. On April 6 you posted a comment and two replies, still part of the SANDY buzz.
You didn’t post again until July 18 which was the start of your daily visits. Yay!
In April you included your last name but you went to Judy S when you returned in July.
So you are an early After Party adopter after all! 😉
Ah, I see why I didn’t remember that – I blocked it out because I got into a bit of a logic debate with Charles until I realized he was right!
Fun stats, Jeb!
I remember when high number Sandy was the repeat on 4-4-26 and your prompt to join After Party to “share your grids, wins, rants, frustrations, or odd solutions” caught my eye and that lead me to join in the conversation. Was curious to see if that play frustrated others!
you’re also down there at 17 75 ??
Good eye. Those are me doing one-off tests when I need to see “new user” features like moderation. I was using test email addresses.
Happy to be on the list. I started being an After Party wallflower WAAAY back. So, I feel like I was part of this group before my official start date of 8/1. Lots of personalities leap right off the posts.
I’m trying to get one of my daily Wordle players to join. She’s still a wallflower.
Not sure how I feel about being on top of the leader board here!
I think it reflects how helpful you are.
Thanks for that.
Agreed… I would be sad if you weren’t posting so much. You are a 🪨 an ⚓️ keeping us in the know! We are 🍀y to have you for reals.
I told you long ago, people here see you as knowledgeable and want to hear about your word lists and opinions on stats.
… I mean, not me. 😁 … But that’s only because our play styles are so different. I contribute very little here in the realm of actual Wordle strategy discussions.
Your contributions on the other hand, and the conversations they’ve inspired, are much appreciated by many here. And I’m sure you’ve helped improve their Wordle averages.
And for the record, I do like all the non-stat stuff. 🙂
Thank you for your thoughtful comment.
I am trying to help.
I just wonder if it means I’m spending too much time on the site generally, but it is fun.
I sorted the snapshot on primary comment. Most people post one primary comment per day (their answer) and then several replies. But you (and I) tend to offer informational comments besides our answers.
The Full Report can be sorted on any column. Christine shoots to the position #2 on replies!
Thanks for that explanation.
WE need you, JD.
Feel proud!
Guiding, advising, instructing, compiling, organizing, encouraging, nurturing. The list goes on and on what teachers do.
That’s the teacher in you.
As a teacher, I recognize it.
You’re actually a worthwhile WORDLE Professional Development instructor! Most PD’s not so much.
(Teacher inside info/joke.)
And you’re right… It’s fun.
🤪 that’s especially cray considering Christine just joined the in June… 🥳
🙋🏼♀️Hmmm… Are u sure my numbers aren’t an aggregate of all the variations on my name? I mean, come on. Chris, Christine, Christy, Christina, Chrissy, Kristine, Kristal, Kristina, Kris, Krissy. 🤪 Shirley I’m not the only one???? LOLZ Anyhoo…
🥳 Thanks for hosting the After Party, Jeb!
🥂✨ Cheers to party-goers for bringing the best vibes, for attending this shindig and adding to the fun! 🥳 Otherwise it wouldn’t be a party. It would be _______ (insert kralcism here). Let’s keep this Nerdledom going strong!!
Party on Garth! 🎸
Wow! 🤯
I didn’t realize that I was an early adopter. I thought you all had been commenting for ages before I joined in.
As a job-searcher, I hope my participation here is seen as a good thing:
* Keeping my mind sharp and boosting my mood with a daily puzzle.
* Replying to be helpful, when I can.
You’re hired!
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a formatted table or link text! Do FF comments support Markdown?
WordPress comments support a lot of basic html which is how I embed images, build tables, and sometimes custom links. I haven’t tried Markdown.
But I also have the benefit of being “logged in” which means I can edit right away if I make a mistake.
I am looking into giving the After Party regulars log in access if only for the benefit of being able to edit your comment after posting. I could provide some HTML tips to go with that.
I think that would be very cool!
shazam! you da wiz 🧙♂️…thaz a boatload a data fer sure!
thanks for pulling this all together. sure appreciate the effort and work required to structure and compile this data. what i was most curious about and looking for were the comments per wordle solution frequency numbers rather than the actual players involved. for each wordle solution/day something along the lines of this:
total # of top level comments
total # of reply comments
total # of reply comments under a specific top level comment for the longest one that day
my question/request was prompted by your inquiry posting on 9/10 about the total number of overall comments (164) the word joist drew on 9/3 and the fact that the ffwap response numbers and overall participation appeared to be increasing.
as i also mentioned recently, it would be very cool to see what the ffwap tribal daily average score is as a group. i had indicated that tracking it may require people to leave the wordle header in when copy/pasting results so you have something consistent to look for and tally up.
as always, we all tremendously appreciate the incredible amount of work you do to keep this site hummin’ and make it a sweet place to hang out, jaw and commiserate!
🪄wizard on, jebth! 🧙♂️
Coudn’t help but wonder how you would manage to convey this in pirate-talk – the mind boggles 🤣
🦜⚔️🏴☠️ aye! “i’m disinclined to acquiesce to your request.”
🤔🤯😎😉
I can take that back into the labs! Every post or comment is a date-time stamped table record associated with your (hidden) email as a key. Every comment / reply is associated with each puzzle / day which is a WordPress Post.
I also have Google Analytics to measure visitor traffic.
It seems like repeats or controversial words drive the most activity and traffic. But your report request and your amazing stuck van story sure added to the record repeat day!
🙋♂️
just for grins i did a manual run through of three different days and recorded the info i was interested in tracking. here are the results:
9/7 blind
80 total comments
31 top level comments (tlc)
49 second level+ comments (slc)
18 longest thread (1 tlc + 17 slc’s)
28 recorded scores / 88 total attempts
2-2’s 21-3’s 4-4’s 1-5’s
3.14 average score for solve (3.1428)
9/9 burst
132 total comments
34 top level comments
98 second level+ comments
14 longest thread (1 tlc + 13 slc’s)
33 recorded scores / 94 total attempts
13-2’s 14-3’s 6-4’s 0-5’s
2.85 average score for solve (2.8484)
9/3 joist
164 total comments
33 top level comments
131 second level+ comments
28 longest thread (1 tlc + 27 slc’s)
31 recorded scores / 92 total attempts
7-2’s 19-3’s 4-4’s 1-5’s
2.97 average score for solve (2.9677)
re: “28 recorded scores / 88 total attempts”
I don’t understand this. I gather 28 grids but what is an attempt?
Getting the row count (score) may be tricky given the way people paste it in differently, sometimes with notes in between rows, with or without the leading 3/6 line. Sometimes without squares.
right, my apologies for the confusion. just didn’t fancy the word “guess”.
“attempts” is the sum total of the score entry counts. 2-2’s 21-3’s 4-4’s 1-5’s = 88
agreed on the parsing issue with actual scores, unstructured data. that’s why i was suggesting that if the tribe members want their score to be counted/factored in they would have to include/leave the “Wordle 1,912 3/6*” header in their score post.
This was a fun list to read!
What engagement!