Wordle 1,588 5/6
HEART
TRESS
TOWER
TUNER
TUBER
Wordle 1,588 2/6
BUYER
TUBER
That was actually a no-brainer, with that start word.
Also, fuck you, Wordlebot, for congratulating me on finding the only plausible word.
Wordle 1,588 4/6*
SNIDE
AUGER
BUYER
TUBER
Correct, you can repeat an incorrectly placed letter in Hard Mode.
Congrats @MrDibble !
Wordle 1,589 3/6
no Ai 
Wordlebot pisses me off to no end. There was a puzzle last week where it scored my second to last guess a 77 skill, and scored its own guess a 99. But both guesses had the same letters (in a different order) and both guesses eliminated the same words. So why was my skill 20 points lower?
And I don’t remember if it was that same puzzle or a different one, where my wife and I had the exact same word as a second-to-last guess, but her skill score was 90-something and again mine was 20 points lower.
I also hate it when it says things like “If today’s word had been…” Yeah, well it wasn’t, so what’s your point?
Wordle 1,588 3/6
SLATE
CRIED
TUBER
Slate is my usual start; Cried seemed an OK “sleuth word” after half a minute’s thought.
Then things got tough. I started by thinking up 9 fitting words off the top of my head: Not
hoping for a Three-score, just wanting t see what patterns were probable. Nonetheless I checked
the words against the already-used List. Seven of the 9 – all but Muter and Toner – were
used up. Muter looked doubtful so I checked it against the All_Wordle_Words List.
Sure enough, Muter wasn’t a Wordle word. While there I checked TONER.
It isn’t a Wordle word either!! I kept looking for fitting words, finding a few more that were
used up and a few more that weren’t Wordle words. Eligible words I’d thought of so far: ZERO.
Finally I decided that NY Times, noting how few Wordle words were left, had reset the word
list. I googled to refute that … and Google directed me to a list of all Wordle words that were
NOT used up. I spent a minute scanning that list, and got five Greens when I entered
the first hit I found.
Perhaps I should declare myself ineligible for further play. I do NOT like to cheat, but with aids available and others using them, where do you draw the line? It’s always been my philosophy
that one should exploit every LEGAL device.
IMO, NY Times should make words eligible for re-use after a 7-day delay or some such.
When a Play List is set to randomize songs, the machine WON’T play the same song twice
in a row, but it won’t make you wait five years to hear the song again!
I have the same problem. I have settled on looking up if a solution has been used before as an aid. I think Wordle should not allow you to play a word that has ever been a solution previously.
Wordle 1,588 5/6
CRANE
HOIST
TERRY
TREED - stupid
TUBER
We’ve discussed this before here. The consensus is that it’s a game. You should enjoy playing it, so play it in whatever way makes it the most fun for you.
We’re not playing against each other. Some of us like using the past word list, some don’t. Nobody’s mad at anyone over it. 
Aw c’mon, there could be a kitchen gadget called the ‘cuber’ that is used for making little cubes of cheese and stuff. Along the lines of, y’know, parer.
If I were making the call, I’d probably go with a 6-month exclusion.
Considering Josh Wardle’s original solution list had, IIRC, 2315 words on it, we’re more than 2/3 of the way through the list unless the FTFNYT added a whole shitload of new solutions that Wardle excluded. I really expected them to start re-using old solutions in some manner by the beginning of this year, which obviously didn’t happen. Maybe by January, who knows?
What Wheelz said here, Gordon. It’s a game, play it however you enjoy it best! And you can’t be cheating because we’re not playing against each other.
Augh, you triggered my PTSD… 
Wordle 1,589 5/6
RATIO
SAUCE
MAUVE
GAUZE
GAUGE
Wordle 1,589 4/6 — Sat 25 Oct 2025-10-25
STEAK
COLIN
UPDRY
GAUGE — the other possibilities had all been previous Wordles: gauze, mauve, vague
Wordle 1,589 3/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}
Lucky with 2nd guess …just wanted to test for the remaining vowels…
Wordle 1,589 3/6
AUDIO
GARUM
GAUGE
Wordle 1589 4/6
SLANT
CHORE
GIFTS
GAUGE
Yeah, I was also part of the crowd that took an L that day.
Wordle 1,589 4/6
I had dreams of scoring an Eagle, but had to settle for Par.
SLATE
WAIVE
MANGE
GAUGE
After Slate I compiled a list of the first 11 fitting words I thought of.
Nine of them were on the already-used list, leaving only Abode and Mange.
Mange struck me as obscure. If I were the NYT editor and the lottery pointed
at Mange, I might say “How did that word qualify as common? Redo the lottery!”
Possible? Anyway, I thought some more and came up with Waive and (not
even a Wordle word) Cadre. Gauge didn’t even occur to me until it was the
only (not-yet-used) possibility left.