MESSY 💩🐣👩🏻🔬🥳 Punctuation Day #$&!*??
(Punctuate like a pirate.)
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#1923 THU 09/24/2026
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108 responses to “#1923 THU 09/24/2026”
Scoredle 3/6*
14,855
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ AUDIO (1,251)
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ STELE (90)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MESSY
Newsy was an option … does that sound like a real word to you guys?
Yes, but not quite as common as MESSY.
Commonality is one of the factors that I use to decide which word to pick.
Wordle 1,923 3/6*
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 ANISE
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 BLESS
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MESSY
We feel BLESSed to (finally) get a diagnosis for my loved one’s condition. Treatment may get MESSY but the prognosis is good!
That’s wonderful news. That must give you some peace of mind.
Thank you.
We’ve gone thru a range of emotions but right now, yes, there is hope for the future 😌
✨yay for a good prognosis!
Thanks! Yay for modern medicine!
Wordle 1,923 3/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ SLANT
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 HOUSE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MESSY
WordleBot
Skill 81/99
Luck 54/99
For some reason, I mistakenly thought that I had ruled out the letter R, which luckily led me not to think of DRESS, PRESS, or CRESS. I definitely would have chosen DRESS and gotten a 4 had I thought of it.
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Grid art: the invader bee has entered the pygmy HOUSE from a couple days ago and found a very MESSY floor.
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Interestingly, the Bot (with knowledge of past answers enabled) thought that PRESS (PU from 9/19/24) was only ~26% as likely as MESSY or DRESS (NUs).
Yesterday, FORTY (from 3/1/2024) was about ~44% as likely as an NU according to the Bot, so whatever formula it’s using has a pretty significant change even within the year 2024. (Either that, or it’s just counting by integer number of years since the first Wordle game, with March and September being different years in that regard.)
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Side note: do we need a new acronym for the bot with knowledge of past answers enabled? KPABot? PABot? Any other ideas?
BPA, but be careful if comes from a plastic. LOL.
HistoryBot.
K-Bot —simple to remember & a silly nod to K-Pop 🎤🎶🕺🏻…
K🤖 for short for we lazy peeps.
🙋🏼♀️Cousin Ez… I’ve noticed the same thing with the 🤖 analysis, mostly because I was noticing that the 🤖’s probability ratings were more accurate than WB.
The annual periods start in June which is why your 2 words from 2024 have different probabilities. That’s my theory. And, 🤖 probability percentages cannot be compared day to day.
FORTY (PU from 3/1/2024) = 3rd period so rated higher
PRESS (PU from 9/19/24) = 4th period so rated lower
6/21 – 6/22 1st period
6/22 – 6/23 2nd period
6/23-6/24 3rd period
6/24 – 6/25 4th period
6/25 – 6/26 5th period
6/26 – 6/27 6th period ⬅️ we are here!
*We have a couple of anomalies: Sandy and Smile. In that order. Since I love to make up stuff 💩 … ahem, I mean very astute theories… 👩🏻🔬 I have decided that these two words were put there not only to disrupt our high-tier strategies but also as Easter Eggs 🐣 (or inside jokes).
Sandy… since we use golf terms for wordle it is a nod to sand trap.
Smile 😀… smiling at the chaos 🌪️ they have kindly unleashed.
Sandy 🌪️ 😀
⚠️There will be more anomalies/easter eggs/inside jokes! Bring it on tb, we’re ready for you here at the After Party! 🥳
Yes, I thought that might be the case regarding the “periods”! We shall see as I collect more data whether that holds up. It’s also possible that the K-Bot’s repeat penalty is not separated into discreet year “periods,” but gradually diminishes with each day/week/month since the PU’s original use.
Also, you are correct that K-Bot probability percentages are not comparable day-to-day (or even person-to-person), as the exact percentage depends not only on repeat status but also the total number of possible words remaining.
HOWEVER, my analysis above was normalizing the likelihoods to those of NU words, making my numbers comparable day-to-day. In other words, the K-Bot today did not tell me that PRESS had a 26% chance to be the answer. It said that PRESS had an 8% chance to be the answer and that MESSY had a 31% chance. 8/31 = ~26, so therefore, PRESS was only about one fourth as likely as an NU to be the answer.
Ahhh… that’s some pretty fancy mathing 🧮 cuz … heck, I haven’t gone as far as normalizing. I just bold the highest rated words in my lists as an approximation. That has to be good enough for me because that’s all I’m willing to put into it. ⏳ I’m already spending 10 times more time on it than normal, making me Abby Normal.
Watching this video, has helped me see the bigger picture. It’s a thing of beauty even if 4 years old and wordle has changed a lot since then.
https://youtu.be/v68zYyaEmEA
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 IMPLY
🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 MUDDY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MESSY
Wanted to start with or guess messy the other day but didn’t see it on the list
Congratulations.
Wordle 1,923 3/6*
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 STILE
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 PESKY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MESSY
WordleBot
Skill 83/99
Luck 68/99
NYT AVG. 3.4
According to Wordlebot, MESHY was also a solution, but it wouldn’t have occurred to me that it was even a word!
‘MESHY’
That’s how Sean Connery would have said today’s word. 😁
Meshy Galore!
Munnney Penny.
If Eric had gotten a twofer: Peshky Galore
That’s funny!
Wordle 1,923 3/6*
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ TREAD
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 SWIPE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MESSY
[Low Noon]
A 3! Yes, please!
“Oh, behave!”
“You sunk my battleship!”
Oh, wait. … That’s the other reference I was anticipating. 😁
Wordle 1,923 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ adieu
⬜⬜🟩🟨🟨 roses
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 messy
Wordle 1,923 3/6
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ Saner
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 Plots
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Messy
Saner plots get messy without proper punctuation.
“Let’s eat, Grandma!” 😊
“Let’s eat Grandma!” 😱
A comma a day keeps the cannibalism away!
Wordle 1,923 2/6
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ STEAL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MESSY
YAY! 4th #2(%=?)★♡
Well done!
Hooray!
🦅 twofer for youfer… yes!
Wordle 1,923 3/6
🟦⬛🟦⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧
STEAL, ROUND left PESKY (996), MESSY (unused, and an ADD). Seriously, some of these words that weren’t on the original list are very odd omissions.
Wordle 1,923 2/6*
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨 paste
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 messy
Well done!
Great!
🦅toofer ✨
🙋♂️ penny fer your thoughts…
😑 messy? #$&!? pfffft! sure’n heck was.
thought i saw that durn cagey bugger tb an’ her motley crew dine’n down at the brown derby yesterday mornin’. hell, they mighta even been headed to that big ol’ party boat. 🤷♂️ musta been schemin’ how they’s gunna serve us up a ‘nuther plate a nuthin’ but a stack o’ greens, the ol’ eee wye trap…varmints!
well shoot, wurs my coffee? gonna jus’ chill out here in rifuk’s ⛵️hammock fer a spell…an’ see what the harbor brings in today.
Wordle 1,923 5/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 utile
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 cagey
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 derby
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 penny
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 messy
*rifuk – resistance is f.utile (knot)
🤓 I cannot help but to read your posts in TedOz’s voice now. I can only imagine what he’s doing with rifuk. Some mixture of a pirate, a borg, and Garth. On a party boat.
So very lucky today!
Wordle 1,923 2/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 SAUCE
NOW WHERE DOES THAT S GO?
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MESSY
WOW!
Well done!
ESP !! & you get a *2* !! ♡
Wow! indeed.
Sauce can be messy sometimes!
🦅✨ shiny toofer!
Wordle 1,923 3/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜cleat 440
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜noser 4
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩messy
WordleBot
Skill 95/99
Luck 58/99
Cleat>noser worked well for me recently on shone day so thought I’d stick with it.
After noser I was down to issue and pesky from the OGs.
Wordle 1,923 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 RAISE
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 BLESS
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MESSY – ADD – 58%
On Punctuation Day, Kim will get a 2 for sure!
New pattern for RAISE. Leaves 3 OG NU. BLESS, CHESS and POESY.
Possible ADDs: LOESS (58%), MESSY (58%), NEWSY (57%)
Possible OG 1YR: CHEST #278 (58%), FLESH #53 (58%)
Charting ALL these words vs the OG NU. BLESS edges out CHESS only slightly.
BLESS left only MESSY. CHESS would have worked too.
I like to play chess and so I really wanted that to be the answer. My second guess sheet listed bless though.
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A dog owner looks at his small dog which crawled under the fence.
You RAISE your children
You BLESS them with all your love
Leave bedrooms MESSY
Nice haiku on parenting
Thank you.
I like the way the 3rd line in your haiku could be interpreted multiple ways:
* Statement that they leave it messy.
* Suggestion that parents leave it messy.
Thank you.
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨Slate…7.gnu.og, 2+
⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛Poser+…1+
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Messy+
Poser ADD was as good a filter as Cress OG. Past ADD patterns suggest that we are going to have a spat of ADDs, so I’m giving ADDs more weight presently.
Things are getting MESSY as we cross the rubicon into a different wordle reality.
Add pattern since EMOJI:
13, 13, 6, 4, 15, 5, 2, 8, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 1, 2, 3, 1, 7, 2, 3
I’ve been tracking ADDs post CLUNK. I think that’s when it really ramped up.
Yes, I’ll through CLUNK they were sporadic. Two weeks later, the spree started.
there’s an interesting trajectory though going all the way back to ground hog’s day … I have that somewhere in my files. It’s getting a little crazy in those files…
Wordle 1,923 3/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 Lance
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ Roist
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Messy
It’s nice to have a 10-minute solve after yesterday which took me a very long time!
Wordle 1,923 2/6
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
I don’t know why I think of the words I think of… But heck, it beat the bot! Ahoy! Did I punctuate enough? This is my first time!!!
Also… I always start with the word TASER… Until of course it is used! Serves me well.
Congrats!
Congrats!
Welcome & congrats 😊
🦅✨ a shiny toofer for youfer
Wordle 1923 3/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 sauce 43
🟩⬜🟩🟨🟩 mosey 2
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 messy
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 AROSE
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 BLESS
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MESSY
“Well, well, bless my beard!’ said Gandalf. ‘Sam Gamgee is it?
Now what may you be doing in Frodo’s Rose garden?’
“Trimming the verge, it looked rather messy.” Samwise said, uncertain if the wizard would change him into something unnatural.
Instead he blessed the two hobbits and send them on a messy adventure!
The fellowship of AROSE’rs are on the same page today.
Same words for me with RAISE.
Wordle 1,923 3/6*
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ STEAL
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 DOUSE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MESSY
I could have used Punctuation Day yesterday!
DOUSE showed me remaining vowel options were E I and Y. And I puzzled the rest into place.
Wordle 1,923 4/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ CLOUT
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 DAIRY
🟨⬛⬛🟨🟩 ENEMY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MESSY
Overlooked using a E in first two words and it got messy.
Wordle 1,923 2/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨slate
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩messy
even better, wd
Pretty nice game for you!
Nice 2, JudyL
Well played
Thanks.
However, I didn’t have dress on my list. (I do now) Definitely would have tried that first bc of the R. Had mosey, messy, and verso. Verso was 53%.
Congrats!
Nice!
🦅✨ and a shiny toofer for yoofer
Wordle 1,923 3/6
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨SLATE
⬛⬛🟨🟩🟨DRESS nu
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩MESSY nu
Wordle 1,923 3/6
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛SCION
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛LATER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩MESSY
As sung by Alanis Morissette, “Oooh oooh, this could be messy,” but turned into a clean 3…yay!
Wordle 1,923 3/6*
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨 arose
⬛⬛🟨🟩🟨 bless this led me into a bit of a mess with my solver
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
the correct word was 1 of 4 but the other 3 did not have dbl ss.
My solve was identical!
Wordle 1,923 3/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 AROSE
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 BLESS
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MESSY
mirror mirror on the wall, we both fared well
Identical, as was mine (see earlier post). A convergence of AROSErs!
ESP !! & you get a *2* !! ♡ 🙂
AROSE’rs are on the same page today
I don’t have a pd NYT subscription, so no access to the Wordle Bot. Based on comments from some of you, the WB has a list of words accepted as Wordle solutions? But it includes words that lists elsewhere online do not include? EG, other sources don’t have newsy or blest as accepted solutions. ???
You can also do a Google search. For example, “Is blest a word accepted by Wordle?” This led to: “Wordle accepts BLEST as a valid guess, though it is not typically used as a daily solution word.”
🙋🏼♀️ Judy, if you play in incognito/private mode, you can use the bot analysis for free. You have to bypass an ad, but it’s free. Then close it out afterwards and you can use it again for free.
You can use this list and x-reference with the FF list.
——————————————————————-https://wordletools.azurewebsites.net/weightedbottles?SortOrder=ByWeight&submit=Submit
Sean H was tempted to use blest as his 2nd guess (but he decided it was too obscure) and Charles was tempted to use newsy (which he found on the WB) . I assumed, from the wording of their comments, that they thought those words were possible Wordle solutions, not just guesses. None of you who responded to my question indicate that either word is a possible solution. So I guess I made a wrong assumption about what Sean H and Charles were trying to do.
thanks all
NEWSY yes. 57%. It was on my list.
BLEST is not even listed on WB. So, it is not playable IMHO.
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨arose
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨chess
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩messy
Arose narrowed it to 4, either bless or chess guaranteed a 3, I thought chess more likely, but it wasn’t either one so I got the 3.
I almost went with CHESS, but went with BLESS instead.
Wordle 1,923 4/6*
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ SNAIL 119 wl
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ESTER 17 wl
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 CHESS 2 wl
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MESSY
WordleBot
Skill 81/99
Luck 46/99
🙏
Prof. Mike’s Word of the Week; chosen by HD, RN
Just had a feeling about double letters here. It wasn’t E. The other word after CHESS was POSSE (PU # 1660 on a day after a repeat). I’m pleased with this solve.
Good ☀️/🌃 to all!
Wordle 1,923 3/6
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ STEAL 56
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 DOUSE 2
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MESSY
MESSY was the only word that fit after DOUSE on my manual play list. NEWSY (The other option I discovered through the WB) has been added to the list and MESSY scratched off for the next few years
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨 AROSE
⬛⬛🟨🟩🟨 BLESS nu
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Lucky line 2. I originally considered BLEST (always keen to check for T) but thought it too obscure.
I wonder how AROSErs will do today. The 🟩S in fourth place is tantalising and the 🟨E is very useful.
Graphic Joke for the day:
http://www.graphicjoke.com/punctuate-the-words-correctly/
Good one Jeb! Made me smile.
🤭
I concur.
Wordle 1,923 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ AUDIO
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩EMPTY
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩MERRY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩MESSY
🙂
Yay – well done 😊👍
surprise 3 , as its an ADD…..
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ BINGO nu(I imagined getting 4 yellow then a 2 with ingot)
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ SWEPT nu(didn’t think it’d start with S, but there’s lots to use)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 add (initially headed down the rabbit-hole of —SE)
Wordle 1,923 4/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ QUASI 55
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 COPSE 8
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ WREST 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Interesting!
Not a tidy solve.
Sea wall with rolly crashing against it.
Some of the rolly crested the sea wall….. 🌊
You are right! I didn’t realize that.
Had to look up rolly!
I learnt about rolly in yesterday’s after party