WREST 📊📈📋🤓 World Statistics Day (+1)
(Fully celebrated every 5 years. 2030 is next.)
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#1949 TUE 10/20/2026
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.
120 responses to “#1949 TUE 10/20/2026”
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Calling yesterday’s STINK a forecast, and then tying today’s WREST to World Statistics Day, is exactly the kind of running joke that keeps a daily Wordle thread fun to read. Hoping COBRA stays on the screen when it finally lands is a fair wish after that streak. I run Unlimited Krillion, an unlimited practice version of the obscure-answer trivia game Krillion, so I get the appeal of a daily puzzle community that still leaves room for side quests. Zane
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Welcome to the After Party, Zane. I usually don’t allow “marketing” comments, but this one was polite and well crafted! 😉
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🟨⬛⬛🟨🟨Slate…19
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛Rouen…🦆 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩Wrest 🤼🥜Anybody want a peanut?
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☣️ Yesterday’s STINK turned out to be a little too on the nose for me. 👃😵
At precisely 9:17 PM, I was settled into my recliner 🛋️, toggling between YouTube and Trivia Crack 📱, front door open behind the one-way security screen. I watched the Amazon driver 📦 set my package in its designated spot, then heard him exclaim, “Oh f🤬!” Well, that’s rude! 🤔 Within seconds, the cause of his outburst became clear as an overwhelming wave of 🦨 wafted through the screen. Holy 💩! Eyes watering 😭, I darted out to rescue my package, then sealed the main door behind me like a hazmat airlock. 🚪💨 WTH just happened??! 🤯
Luckily, my security camera caught it all. 🎥 Turns out my resident 🦨, Frank, had been grub-hunting in the front planter when the reflective-vest-clad stranger startled him. Frank responded with a prompt, point-blank spritz to the unsuspecting Amazonian before scurrying off, leaving a trail of thiols in his wake. 🧪 Prime delivery, meet Frank’s same-day service: no signature required. 😂⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Lesson learned: Wordle is no longer a game; it’s a forecast. 🔮 So when my beloved COBRA 🐍 finally comes up, I sincerely hope it stays on the screen. 🤞🏼😅
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whoa dang! 🤯 frank clearly does not appreciate being interrupted, ‘specially at mealtime. 🤷♂️
🤔 may i suggest you also add a note for the amazon driver on the day that cobra🐍 hits. jes sayin’ 😉
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🙋🏻♀️ Does that mean the forecast is for Dwayne Johnson to show up at your door tomorrow? 🤼🔮
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You get the Wordleitzer Prize for story telling this week! 🏅
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I’m honored and humbled to have eked out this prestigious award from our resident raconteurs, kralc and Christine. Thank you, Jeb! ☺️
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Shared this story with my sibs. My sister asked why a swan smelled so bad. Took a bit to figure it out. She sent me a screen cap.
I told her how to change to Light Mode under the support menu! 😀
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Nine twos!!
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A perfect example of the 🧮🧪🔬📊📈 📋🤓 working as it should. Because of it, I didn’t have to WREST this solve.
Wordle 1,949 2/6*
⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨 PARSE 6
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WREST WordleBot
Skill 78/99
Luck 91/99-
Kim Deuces Wild!
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🐝🐝 twobee time! 👏
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⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ HIPPY
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ GOURD
⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ BRAWL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WRESTIt’s on the og list too, not to be confused with hippie. Thought wrest had been used but I guess not
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Wordle 1,949 3/6*
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 STILE
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 CREST
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WRESTWordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 84/99
NYT AVG. 3.8CREST was a high-numbered reused word that I used to look for more letters, and it really payed off!
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yay – I see you mastered the Avatar process 👍
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What’s “The Avatar Process”
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It’s a process Jeb suggested for those of us wanting to have a personalised pic on our messaging, vua creating it on our email
Eric originally had EL, and nos has his photo….
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WordPress bought gravatar.com several years ago. You can create an image anonymously tied to your email that you use in posting to WordPress and other sites. Email remains private.
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Wordle 1,949 2/6*
🟨⬛🟩⬛🟩SLEPT (5)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩WRESTFinally WRESTed my first October 2fer from the steely jaws of defeat.
I wonder how many times the solution has all its letters adjacent on the qwerty keyboard. Off the top of my head, the ones I see that would meet that criteria are SWEAR, TRESS, DRESS, STEER, STARE, and today’s WREST.
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Oh Yeah!
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🐝🐝✨ twobee for youbee! 👏
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Wow! ALL Those 2s!
I thought I did well with my symmetrical 3…
Wordle 1,949 3/6🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 SAUCE
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ PESTO
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WRESTSomeone had the nerve to WREST the PESTO SAUCE off my plate…
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How dare they!
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Wordle 1,949 5/6
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 CLOUT
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 FIGHT
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 KARAT
🟨🟨🟨⬛🟩 RESET
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WRESTYou never see what you wanna see
Forever playing to the gallery
You took the long way home
You took the long way home-
And when you’re up on the stage, it’s so unbelievable
Oh, unforgettable, how they adore you
But then your wife seem to think you’re losing your sanity
Oh, calamity, or is there no way out?
Oh, yes -
The album Crime of the Century is one of my favorites.
Just learning about W. H. Davies, the original Super-Tramp.
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Jeb, just looked into W.H. Davies – interesting man! Looking forward to reading more of his poetry and his life. Thanks for mentioning him.
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Does it feel that your life’s become a catastrophe?
Oh, it has to be for you to grow, boy
When you look through the years and see what you could have been
Oh, what you might have been
If you’d had more time
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⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 AROSE
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ DRESS
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WRESTI was reading in bed last night when the clock CRESTed midnight.
Oh, let me try today’s WORDLE before I go to sleep.
AROSE left only seven options, of which I only saw six, and half were PUs
DRESSed in my PJs, I WRESTed my luck at 3, but PRESSing for a 2-er.
DRESS was actually a risky choice because of CRESS and TRESS, the latter I did not consider.
But with the recent repeat FRESH in our minds, it was a risk worth taking.-
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awesome yarn 🧶 and nicely knitted! sure hope you were able to get a.wrest after all that letter juxtaposin’ in the wee hours. 🕯️🥱😴😉
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Wordle 1,949 3/6*
🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛ TREAD
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ERECT
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WREST[Duck Protest]
After TREAD was thinking it could be a tricksy repeat day with GREET (85). Second guess showed me it wasn’t that. Happy with the 3.
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Wordle 1,949 3/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 SLANT
🟨⬜⬜🟩🟩 ROUST
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WRESTWordleBot
Skill 88/99
Luck 64/99====================================
I found every possible answer after ROUST except for GRIST, which I had never heard of. Were you all familiar with GRIST?
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Grid art: a man standing up after he is ROUSTed from slumber in his chair.
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Great grid art and interpretation!
If people aren’t one block, I tend to see three blocks as adults and two blocks as children.
And I have tendency towards the morose.
I would have called this ‘Father’s Empty Chair’.
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tak.
grist: grain ready to be ground, typically at a grist mill.
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Wordle 1,949 3/6
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 cleat 18
🟨🟨🟩⬜🟩 swept 1
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wrestWordleBot
Skill 90/99
Luck 80/99Swept and wrest are both 58% so like Elaine I picked what I considered the more common word. Still waiting for a twofer in October.
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It will happen. There is still a lot of October left.
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Wordle 1,949 2/6
🟦🟦🟧⬛⬛
🟧🟧🟧🟧🟧STEAL left 6 possible, only 1 unused.
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GREAT!
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Nice solve!
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🐝🐝 twobee Sven! 🙌🏻
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Wordle 1,949 4/6
🟨⬜⬜🟩🟨 raise
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ fresh
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 crest
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wrest
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Wordle 1,949 3/6
🟨⬜⬜🟩🟨 RAISE
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ DRESS
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WRESTRAISE leaves 4 OG NU, 1 ADD and a 1YR.
Presuming it is an OG NU, DRESS gives me a 3 in all cases.
If it was the ADD. TRESS – 48%, then it would be a 4. DRESS, CRESS, TRESS.
If it was FRESH #22 today, I would have gotten a 4. Now that WREST is out of the way, FRESH will be a 3.
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A fox terrier lays on the floor.-
A nice three for our CSO on world stats day! 🧮
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Thanks!
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Perfect game in my book
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Thank you!
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Congrats to those who got a 2!
Wordle 1,949 3/6
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 Cleat
🟨🟨🟩⬜🟩 Swept
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WrestI debated for a while between Swept and Wrest and went with the more common word for my second guess; happy to get a 3.
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We match today. 😊
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Wordle ESP!
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Perfect game, well done
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🤔 iz dare a two.snami 🌊🌊 headin’ r way t’day?🤷♂️😉
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It’s going to be big numbers for Statistics Day with all the accolades rolling in.
Nice 2, by the way!
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🍁🍂🌳\_🛌_/🌳🌙🌌 durned if it wurnt a chillee nite out und’r da stars down by da crick. brite sunny mornin’ comin’ tho’… jes waitin’ fer ‘er to poke up. 🌅
‘parentlee i went thru the rite turn.stile my ownself t’day. dis ol’ creek dun lef’ me wit jes tree gnu picks…arena, tread an’ wrest.
🤔 daze all sound’d politicklee load’d ta me, wut wit m t arenas, wrestin’ power an’ dont tread on me.
reckon’d ide seen ’nuff ehhs latelee so i took a chance on the dubya. 🎲🎲🤞💥
😎🤯 whoop! dare it iz! da wrest is hisstree…🤷♂️🤞
Wordle 1,949 2/6*
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ creek
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 wrest-
crick jac.o.pot!
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Hi Jeb,
Can you check to see if Swept was previously used? On the FF filter it shows up as not PU, but after I solved with Wrest, I saw it on another list as being used in Sept. ‘25. Thanks!-
That’s a bit too vague Elaine. Can you provide me a link to the site or a specific date?
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Hi Jeb,
Sure, I found it through a Google search, so I don’t remember which site it took me to! I just found Swept listed again – this time for Sept. 2, 2025, at:
https://wordle.fandom.com/wiki/Historical_list_of_Wordles#September_2025
so maybe this was incorrect info.
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Five Forks Wordle is one of the most accurate sites on the net for past answers because the 10,000 daily users keep me in line! (And especially the 400 After Party visitors.)-
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awww shucks, mildred…i think he likes us. 😉😎🤯
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Thanks for the link. That is a copy of the original answer derived from the code that predates NYT taking it over. It is not based on past published answers since NYT.
“The following is the original list of Wordles that Josh Wardle created at the release of the game. Since then, The New York Times has made dramatic changes to the list.”
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Thanks Jeb! It’s weird that 2 sites had different dates for Swept, both incorrect
as it has not been used. That’ll teach me to never venture beyond the FF filter! 🙂
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Congrats!
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Well Done!
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da wrest is hisstree indy’d!
Good game!
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🐝🐝💥💥 Mighty fine noodlin’ from da crick—reckon dat crown’s bin wrested clean away. 👑🤼
😉🥸
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Wordle 1,949 3/6
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 Saner
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 Dicot
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Wrest-
🦆🦆 … 🪿
Funny Strands.
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Yes! The Strands game was easy today.
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World Statistics Day is celebrated formally every 5 years. The last was 2025. The next is 2030.
So this is the +1 year… or -4 year.
Seems like we celebrate stats every day at the After Party. 🎉🥳🧮
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Wordle 1,949 2/6
🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ STEAL 7
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WRESTTwo 2 rows 2 days in a row. ☘️
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👍👻👻 boo yah!!! (two yah!? 🤷♂️😉)
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Congrats!
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Way to go MAYOR!
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Congrats Chief!! 🥳🤩
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Quite nice
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Lined up nicely for you two-day!
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Yay 😊
unfamiliar territory Boss – are you doing a ‘Big Al’ ? -
🐝🐝 Two-bee for you-bee 🙌🏻👏🥳
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Wordle 1,949 2/6*
🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ STEAL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WRESTFor my acceptance speech at the World Statistics Day (+1) awards dinner, I’d like to thank FiveForks for making all of this possible!
(I consider a “2” a winner!)
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Twins!
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“…and the winner is…”
👏👏👏👏👏👍 🎠short ride on the carousel t’day! 😉
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Congrats!
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Yay!
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Nice 2!
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😂
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🐝🐝✨ two-bee for you-bee! Yay! 🥳
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Wordle 1,949 3/6
🟨⬛⬛🟨🟨SLATE 19
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟩ONSET 8
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩WREST-
✨ Oy veh! All the words after slate ending in “set” today… Glad you tried one, I wasn’t as brave as you. 🙌🏻
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Wordle 1,949 3/6
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨slate
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜pesto. T- wrong! Ugh. Why didn’t I go for a word with R?
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🟥 JudyL I almost went with pesto after slate—as I put it in, I suddenly noticed the 2 Ts lined up and caught myself. It didn’t matter anyhoo. You got it in 3 regardless! Yay!🙌🏻
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Wordle 1,949 2/6*
⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 LEAST
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WREST-
Well done!!
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LEAST *is still* a genius word!
(Or so I’ve heard.)
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Congrats!
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Booyah!
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🐝🐝 Another twobee for Team Least! 🙌🏻
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Wordle 1,949 2/6
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨 AROSE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WRESTNever even thought about a double S there
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Great!
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Congrats!
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Lucky You!
There was DRESS, CRESS and TRESS.
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Excellent!
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🐝🐝✨Two-bee for Team Rose 🥀 🙌🏻
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Wordle 1,949 3/6*
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟨 arose
⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ dress
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Wordle 1,949 4/6*
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟨 AROSE
⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ DRESS nu
⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛ FRESH pu
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Teelee: sorry!
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Wordle 1,949 2/6
🟨🟨🟩⬛⬛ STEAL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WRESTNearly tried tress instead. But I wanted to go with ??est. Crest, chest, guest and quest were pu.
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Great!!
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Congrats!
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Good thing you didn’t go TRESS – ADD – 48% and went for WREST – OG NU – 58%. instead.
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Worked out nicely for you!
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🐝🐝✨ Twobee!!! 👏
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Wordle 1,949 3/6
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟨arose
⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜dress
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩wrest -
Wordle 1,949 3/6
🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ STEAL 7
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 TRYST 2 (PU)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WRESTCouldn’t think of anything NU for turn 2 so went with the earliest PU (398) I could think of on the spot. The answer came to me when the R filled in. CREST was the other PU.
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Wordle 1,949 5/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ AUDIO (1,251)
⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ PENSY (16)
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 CREST (2)
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 TREST (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WRESTPure logic
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Wordle 1,949 4/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜QUASI 55
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ BLESS 7
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ POESY 6
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that’s better…..
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟨 DOUSE (+)
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ CHESS (nu)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 (nu)-
Well played!
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