Wordle 1,693 5/6
BUYER
CAMEO
TASED
PANEL
GAVEL
Wordle 1693 4/6
SLANT
CHORE
LEGAL
GAVEL
Discussion of how the the re-using of solutions is going so far:
Other than the very intentional reuse of CIGAR on Monday, none of the solutions since then have been previous solutions. 0 for 4.
That’s a small sample but stiil, if we’ve already used up at least 70% of the words on the solutions list as it currently exists, and if we suppose the NYT is choosing solutions at random from the entire solutions list, then the chance that we’d get all new solutions these past four days is less than 1%.
I don’t know how they’re playing this, but I’m not throwing away my used words list just yet.
Wordle 1,694 5/6
RATIO
STALE
CLEAT
PLEAT
BLEAT
Another day, another trap.
Wordle 1,694 4/6 SATURDAY
AUDIO
FRAME
CHEAP
BLEAT
Wordle 1,694 3/6*
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!!
Wordle 1,694 5/6 — 2026-02-07 Sat
STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
METAL
BLEAT
Wordle 1,694 3/6 SATURDAY
SLATE
BICEP
BLEAT
After the 4-hit start I could try for an Eagle, or “sleuth”
for a guaranteed(?) Birdie.
Wordle 1694 2/6
SLANT
BLEAT
Given my starting word, this is a repeat of last Saturday, when ALLOT was the solution. That combo of greens and yellows leaves nine possibilities, which break down nicely into three groups of 3: (1) ALLOT, ALOFT, ALERT; (2) BLEAT, CLEAT, PLEAT; (3) BLOAT, FLOAT, GLOAT. After last Saturday, all but BLEAT, CLEAT, and BLOAT had been used.
Assuming we’re still not re-using (see my discussion of this in last night’s post), any of those last three is equally good at guaranteeing a 3. My thought was also that if they are finally re-using, then BLEAT and BLOAT are equally good (actually, on re-examination, BLOAT is slightly better) as the best choice to guarantee a 4 and up the odds for a 3 or better.
Anyhow, I went with BLEAT and got lucky for the 2. But if they’re randomly picking from the entire solutions list, the odds were > 400 to 1 against getting 5 new solutions in the 5 Wordles since the intentional choice of CIGAR as Monday’s solution. Maybe someone at the NYT forgot to flip the switch and pick randomly from all the solutions, whether they’ve been used or not? I don’t know, but until they re-use another previous solution, I’m going to keep on keeping my used words in mind.
Nicely done.
Added:
I don’t maintain a used words list but I had been referring to one at ➜ Past Wordle answers: Archive of previous words | Rock Paper Shotgun ■ . But since Monday I stopped referring to it.
Maybe I shouldn’t stop.
Wordle 1,694 4/6
RADIO
GUEST
CHEAT
BLEAT
Wordle 1,694 3/6
CRANE
SPLAT
BLEAT
I had the same starting word with the same pattern a few days ago. Few enough that i remembered what the wordlebot had said would have been better than the second word i picked. So i tried its suggestion, and bingo! Only one possibility remained.
Wordle 1,695 6/6
no Ai 
Wordle 1,694 4/6*
STEAL
CLEAT
PLEAT
BLEAT
I thought I had it in two!
Wordle 1,694 2/6
BUYER
BLEAT
Wordle 1,694 4/6
CRANE
HOIST
PLEAT
BLEAT
Wordle 1,694 4/6
TRACE
STEAL
PLEAT
BLEAT
Lost the coin toss, but if I’m being honest I didn’t even know there was a coin; thought I had a three and missed the B.
Wordle 1,694 2/6
Baby, baby can’t you hear my
HEART
BLEAT
Wordle 1,694 6/6* 2/7/2026
GAVEL → That’s about the best I could have expected, except for VAGUE or AGAVE. I’ll try two more WoFcons.
LEANS → Not those two, though. There are two left, and I can get get them with
ALERT → I could use more lerts. Anyway… aw, heck, looks like a 3-trap, in which case I’m safe, but ugh. Here we go
CLEAT → Nope.
PLEAT → Nope. Gotta be
BLEAT
Second six in four days. Combined with yesterday’s loss, probably my worst four-day stretch of Wordle ever. At least, in the “misery loves company” section, Scoredle also hit the same trap and also used all three guesses to find it. The difference is that it started on its third guess rather than fourth, so it finished with a bogey.
Wordle 1,695 4/6
RATIO
LUNES
CHEEP
EMBED
Wordle 1,695 3/6 SUNDAY
AUDIO
CREED
EMBED