SNOWY ❄️☃️🏔️⛷️ NYT First Edition 1851 (originally New-York Daily Times)
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#1917 FRI 09/18/2026
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116 responses to “#1917 FRI 09/18/2026”
Love it Meg ❤️
Wordle 1,917 3/6*
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ANISE
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ SNOUT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNOWY
Sunbreak in the gray sky over tall trees in the forest.
Sometimes I wish we had SNOWY days here, but mostly not. 🫤 Luckily, I’m close enough to the Sierras that I can make a quick ☃️ if I get a hankerin’.
Wordle 1,917 3/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ COBRA 146 🐍
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 SMOKY 1 💨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNOWY ❄️
WordleBot
Skill 81/99
Luck 72/99
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PLINKO chip about to land in the 500 slot.
🙋♂️
pardon me. i am looking for the ffap gpc 🚔. i found this “g” on the sidewalk buried slightly in the snow ❄️. i believe it may have been wounded by an apostrophe. i was hoping to find the owner. can you help me? 🤷♂️😉😎
A gpc 🚔 report on the hankering injury has been filed.
Report received. 🧾
👮🏻🧐Investigative Findings: Upon arriving on scene, the displaced g appeared to have no injuries beyond a touch of frostnip at the tip of the descender. g stated they were fine and refused transport to typesetter for inspection and/or treatment. While beginning to question g about their welfare, apostrophe arrived on scene and exclaimed that g had not returned at their previously agreed upon swap time and location so they followed the descender prints in the snow which lead them to the scene. Apostrophe admitted to replacing g for that particular appearance, but stated the switch was entirely amicable and was only a one off occurrence. At that time, apostrophe was released as they were determined to be truthful and not at fault for g’s predicament. Upon questioning, g admitted to “tying one on” with a wayward snowman and had no recollection of the pair parting ways or how they ended up on the sidewalk sprinkled with snow. FFAP GPC attempted to locate snowman for questioning, but believed they had been absorbed into the banks. Report closed and passed on to FFAP Grammar Teacher for further evaluation in determining if any malicious intent was involved in the swapping of g with apostrophe. ✍️👮🏻
🤓 wow, what an incredible saga! gosh, thanks officer. i am so relieved to hear this was resolved and no one was seriously injured.
i sure hope no one gets in trouble for this, with their folks i mean. i believe i do know this frosty individual you mentioned in your incredibly thorough report. he looks jolly and harmless but can be a problematic influence on our youth, requiring consonant vigilance. 🤷♂️😉
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ SMACK
🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 SIXTY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNOWY
I almost started with snowy. I’ve started with it before several times, most recently on September 2nd.
Then I thought, no we had a S___Y with an O this month already. If it’s S today, it should be something different.
No way no way no way no way no way no way no way no way no way no way no way no way no way no way no way
an S*
If you started with SNOWY, then you wouldn’t have gotten a 3!
Congratulations.
Ha-ha. Good 👉!
I still want to get it in 1. Played the list for years trying to get it (that’s part of why I use it and hate repeats) it’s really only 2s that I don’t like
So, if you don’t get it in 1, then guess a plural word on guess 2 ending in S (e.g. BOATS). That will lead to fewer 2s.
Must only play words that can solve, so no
I must have missed something. Why would you have a problem with 2’s?
I favor 3’s myself. 1’s and 2’s are too much luck, not enough play, and the art grid is too small.
Although a 2 is a nice surprise. And for me a 1 has only happened once when I gambled on Groundhog Day which NYT hinted (told?) would be the first repeat day.
Way.
🙋♂️
🤔 i believe the 2s would like a word…the term terrible was being bandied about.
🤷♂️😎
Wordle 1,917 3/6
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ SLANT
🟩⬜⬜🟨🟨 SCION
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNOWY
WordleBot
Skill 94/99
Luck 65/99
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Grid art: a snowman who’s head has fallen off. Plus the dogs had their way with the snow, hence the hue
☃️🐕🟨 Good one Ez
Wordle 1,917 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ Crane
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 Toils
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Snowy
Wordle 1,917 3/6*
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ STILE
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ SNARF
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNOWY
WordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 70/99
NYT AVG. 3.8
Wordle 1,917 3/6
🟧⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟦⬛⬛🟦
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
STEAL, KORUN left 3 possible: SNOOP (1232), SNOWY, SYNOD. I chose well.
Wordle 1,917 3/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜cleat (330)
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨noirs (6)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩snowy
WordleBot
Skill 97/99
Luck 55/99
Usually when I strike out with cleat I use irons and bot prefers noirs. So today I tried noirs, but no, the bot was still not happy and decided prion would have been better 🙄
Based on OG NU’s,
IRONS has a green score of 140
NOIRS has a green score of 146
So, it’s only a slight improvement over IRONS.
This is because it puts I in the optimal position (3rd) which scores 60 on it’s own.
Alternative words to consider:
IRONY #433, NOISY #1548, RISKY NU OG!, ROSIN 55%.
Just realizing that ROSIN is another anagram of IRONS.
It’s green score is 141, but at least it has an outside shot of being the answer. (not as good as RISKY which is less risky. LOL.)
LOL. Sometimes this all makes my brain hurt 😂
You were featured in kralc’s snowy narrative!
“… out where linda of the mountains is 🌄🏔️“
Thanks. I missed that. Fortunately no snow yet!
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛Slate…16.nu.og.wl; 🤖70
🟩⬛⬛🟨🟨Scion…1.nu.og; 1.pu.og
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Snowy❄️☃️🏔️⛷️🌨️
🚘 Once had a Toyota Scion… sweet little zippy car ‘til alternator busted on I-90 near Murdo, SD. Not a great place to be stranded in 110 degrees. 🥵 This year Hyundai Tucson stranded me on I-90 near Rockford, IL. Maybe I should reconsider Ford. 🤨 Or at least avoid I-90?
✨ Really wanted the word to be SHINY ✨ today because of recent Firefly AP convo. 🛸🤠
*️⃣ ➕ SINUS. 👃🏼 How is this an ➕? 🧐
🥳 glossary https://www.fiveforks.com/wordle/tips/
Wordle 1,917 4/6*
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TREAD
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ POUCH
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 FLOWY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNOWY
[Improper Pike Technique]
I was thinking S for so long on the third guess and getting nothing useful. Then I switched it up. Should have gone back to check on S again.
I also see a snow mobile.
I could see that.
My approach to Wordle art is the yellows are things that are dynamic or with dynamic potential, or that they are things apart from the ground or larger body, or something to be highlighted for some reason on the ground or larger body.
So in this case, the head is highlighted as being not properly tucked during the pike position of a dive.
But snowmobile works too. 🙂
belly flop? or hit the board?
The entire Wordle is the diver in, mostly, folded pike position.
Aha… still not a pretty landing.
4 is ok…I liked the all green…
Wordle 1,917 4/6
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ SAUCE
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ SHIRT
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ SPOOK
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNOWY
Wordle 1,917 4/6
🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ Saner
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ Flick
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟨 Shown
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Snowy
oooooh! 😮😲😯😧😦 sure looked like a good day for an “ou” to land.
🤔 snowy??? must be thinkin’ of a cat.
only place i might be spectin’ some flakes this september mornin’ is out where linda of the mountains is 🌄🏔️.
jus’ sayin’ 🤷♂️😎
Wordle 1,917 4/6*
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ clout
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ abode
🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 woozy
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 snowy
yellow player to green player:
🤔 just me or does the net seem a bit high to you, too?
…. comic yesterday, clout today, and no more crick… can’t wait to see what tomorrow’s C word is… Mike suggested to me crypt. (big foot comes up in emojis-huh?)
For tennis, net is high! For swimmers, it’s just a lane marker!
No flakes here yet! But, flash back to the year that just kept on givin’, 2020. We had snow on June 8th and again on September 9th. Not just a few flakes mind you, but inches. That was extreme even for life here at 7200 ft. So today when I was deciding whether to play snowy I thought surely not. 🤷♀️
Wordle 1,917 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ RAISE
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ STUNK
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNOWY
It is nice to cross one of these words of this list of 28 OG words.
Last time I got this pattern, it was a REPEAT (FOCUS) when I got a 5.
STUNK is the best filter (along with SHOCK). Not SHOCKingly, 19 of these words start with S. STUNK gives me 3 in only 11 cases, and now it will be 10.
The best case scenario usually is coming out on the plus side of a 50-50, because usually, that’s a 3, and the odds of getting a 3 increase next time that pattern emerges. Getting the guaranteed 3 is ironic, because your odds of a 3 decrease a bit (although the odds of a 2 uptick very slightly) on the next word returning S in the wrong position. That pattern is the 3rd worst for RAISE.
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2 stacks of first edition NYT stacked on the end of a cart in 1851.
you’re grid art on theme again! 📰
Wordle 1,917 5/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ adieu
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ chomp
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ flock
🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜ wrong
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 snowy
Wordle 1,917 4/6*
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ STEAL
🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 SPURN
🟩⬜⬜🟨🟩 SHINY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNOWY
Based on my analysis of remaining new words there was a 50/50 chance between Shiny and Snowy.
One ball in the basketball net and another one about to go in!
Nothing but net. 🏀🗑️
We were almost the same. SLATE and STEAL sort of same/same. Next 3 exactly.
Great minds…
Wordle 1917 4/6 (Bot)
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ STEAL (70)
🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜ SONIC #177 (7)
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ SNOOK (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNOWY
Wordle 1,917 2/6
🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ SHONE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNOWY
2nd 2 in a row 👏👏
Way to go!
Nice! Deuce Double!
🦅✨ you really shone on this twofer for youfer!
Impressive double double!
Congrats!
Well hello again there, 2!
Wordle 1,917 4/6
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜slate
🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨spurn
🟩⬜⬜🟨🟩shiny
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩snowy
So like LEAST was a genius word!
True! You’re very observant.
Wordle 1,917 3/6
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛SLATE
⬛⬛🟩🟨🟩CRONY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩SNOWY
Wordle 1,917 5/6*
⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ arose
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ stoop
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ shock
🟩⬛🟩🟩⬛ slows it’s a long unused list under s
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I prefer it here than outside
Wordle 1,917 4/6
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ OPTIC
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ ABUSE
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ SMOKY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNOWY
Run-of-the-mill game for me today.
🙋♂️
🤔 interesting expression, that one…or have your run of the place.
one wonders, where doth these clichés hail from, pray tell? 🤷♂️😎😉
Wordle 1,917 3/6
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
STEAL
SMOKY
SNOWY
not supposed to mention that white stuff yet
Exactly what I was thinking. I hesitated to play it, but also wanted to rule out #312 shown which was on my list of 3 to choose from.
Wordle 1,917 2/6
🟩⬛⬛🟨🟨SCION
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩SNOWY
Still waiting for current starter to be # 1…
Scion was a great set-up for a 2 today! Nice.
nice 2, be patient
Way to go!
🦅✨ Twofer for youfer! Woot-fer!
I used scion for 2nd choice. I might consider it as a future starter. 🧐
Whoo hoo!
Congrats!
⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ AROSE
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ SCOUT pu717
🟩⬛🟩🟩🟨 SHOWN pu312
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
My life-twin also got it in 4 via STOUP (long list) and SHOCK (shockingly an nu). I gave him the KUDOS (nu) for a better strategy.
Wordle 1,917 4/6
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜arose
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜sooth
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩smoky
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩snowy
I spent a long time trying to find a route to get there in 3, given my start with arose. I even considered using a word for the 2nd guess without the greens I had, but I couldn’t think of one that would guarantee getting it in 3. Sooth got it down to 2 choices and I picked the wrong one. I’m eager to see what other arose players do.
Way to go Charles and Meg!
Wordle 1,917 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ TARSE 105 wl
🟩🟨⬜⬜🟩 SOILY 3 wl
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩 SMOKY 2 wl
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNOWY
WordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 48/99
🙏
Prof. Mike’s Word of the Week; TARSE was Andrew’s favorite starting word in 2025
SOILY worked well again, but I didn’t take advantage of the opportunity. If I had thought carefully, I would have guessed SNOWY because it would eliminate the other two words. Tant pis. I’m okay with a fourfer.
Good ☀️/🌃 to all!
Wordle 1,917 3/6
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ STEAL 70
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ SHOCK 8
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNOWY
Of the 8 possible solutions remaining, only SNOWY was not yet used. Thanks, FF list!
Fallen F pattern in the Mar de Verdes
interesting – mine showed SNOOP which I incorrectly chose over SNOWY
I approve of the play of the word SNOOP!
haha -😄🐾
Wordle 1,917 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ QUASI 154
🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ SHONE 8
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Shone was a great word to get you to Snowy!
Wordle 1,917 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 AUDIO
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜PROSE
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜SCOOT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩SNOWY
A tie
another 5 🤷♀️ words fail me
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
[going downhill fast] haven’t had grass stains like that in many years!
You did survive the fall though.
What are the 4 words that failed you?
creek, shalt, sniff, snoop
Is that the same creek that kralc abandoned yesterday in favor of the big pond?
that very same creek – that yielded zilch !
There was some speculation that Glenda was actually NYT Wordle Editor Tracy Bennett. (I cannot unravel why.) She countered her accent would prove she comes from nowhere near New York.
I asked her for a sample. I find it authentic, and I created the transcript in support.
Transcript below.
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(The purpose of this recording is for identity verification.)
Haere mai!(a) Glenda here from Auckland, New Zealand, heading off in my togs and jandals(b) to one of our fabulous west coast beaches, a mere 30 minutes away.
I’ll grab some fish and chips from the Piha Surf Club to eat with a liberal squirt of tomato sauce and lemon and a cold tinny from my chilli bin(c).
I’ll kick back on the black sand with my gaze westward to Aussie, the land I once called home, and watch the glorious sunset out beyond the breakers.
Ah, doesn’t get much better than this.
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(a) Māori greeting meaning “Welcome!” translated “Come to me!”
(b) Swimsuit and (Japanese-style) sandals.
(c) Can of soda or beer from ice cooler.
I’m not one who ever had that speculation, Jeb. Super weird thought, really.
But – NYC is like the biggest melting pot of diversity in the USA, so if I was one of them a New Zealand accent wouldn’t deter me.
On the other hand, if you know what Tracy B sounds like, then this is convincing evidence to the contrary
It was banter started a while back ….
“What if one of us is TB -who do you think it would be ?”
I stumbled upon it – and did a recording (which Jeb helped me with) to demonstrate I’m a true blue Kiwi – ’twas all in jest 😉
Tracy’s voice!
https://www.instagram.com/reels/C6MF3RaOgNe/
TB or not TB?
That is the question.
Loved this Glenda! I pictured myself right there with you catching the sunset. Loved learning the phrases with their translations. Gives me a little peak into your culture. What brought you to New Zealand to live after Australia?
I was born a Kiwi, and moved to Aussie in 1979, and totally lived my best years there (until the wheels fell off big time) dwelt in the UK for a time & travelled a bit from there before returning to Aussie. Headed back home to NZ in 1998, had my daughter Jan 2000 (born on Australia Day!)
My gran was an Aussie – so much affinity with that land.
Light-blue Aussie
True-blue Kiwi
Thanks for sharing!
I recognize the NZ vocab but the accent is not that different from mine. If the words kids beer and six had been used I would have noticed the difference more.
“gaze westward to Aussie, the land I once called home”
Ah yes. Glenda’s accent has probably been partially Ozified by her years in Oz.
Ah, six, of course – I was trying to weave in the obvious words – that’s a miss ….
Hi Glenda. Hope you didn’t mind my doing an Aussie version of your story.
Come on guys! the “TB is one of us” discussion is a joke that I started.
(Did you get that, Tracy? Fly under the radar; so, we can’t figure out which one of us is actually you.)
Says someone who posts as a two-letter name. 😁
Would I talk to myself?
Why, yes? Yes, I would.
😁
🤭 I’ve been wondering how it all started!
Thank you, Jeb and Glenda!
Beautiful. There’s a reason why I have all of my bots set with an Australian accent and I watch every Australian movie I can find. So sooooothing! Plus there’s Hugh Jackman … 🤤
🦘Another great AP 🥳 to bookmark.
🤦🏻♀️ Meg is right… when I listened, I thought it was Australian LOLZ. They are almost interchangeable.
🥝 Well, you have the late grate Sam Neill 🦖 (but we won’t mention Russel Crow 👎).
And, The Whale Rider 🐳 love that movie.
Well… a lesser known fact and speaking of whales: I eloped & got married in the majestic mountains of Kaikōura. Wedding=Gorgeous. Divorce=Ugly. 💩
🚔 citizens arrest, citizens arrest for GRATE
Aussie… Gidday mate, hand us a stubby from the esky while i pop another prawn on the barbie. Hows that sheila of yours? etc, etc
Don’t get me started on the rhyming slang 😆
Skippy 🦘
Peter Jackson & Taika Waititi … we kinda punch above our weight with creative/artistic talent for our population (circa 5 million)
the Aussies claim Russell (he lives there) they also claim pavlova n other kiwi stuff – lots of rivalry from ‘across-the-ditch’ ….
@Glenda M of the non-incognito sort… that explains why you sound like both!
Australia has the amazing Xavier Rudd -there’s no emoji for a didgeridoo 🤷♀️
As an Aussie I would have said:
Hi. This is Meg from Canberra, the capital of Australia.
I am heading down in my swimmers and thongs to one of our fabulous east coast beaches a mere 2 hours away.
I’ll grab some fish’n’chips from the take away to eat smothered in dead horse and a cold coke from the esky.
I’ll relax on the white sand looking eastwards towards NZ, the land that I once toured, and watch the glorious sunrise.
would have been a fantastic grid with snows as the fifth guess