Wordle 1,622 5/6* (1/4 chance on 3, 1/2 chance on 4, excluding previous Wordle answers) 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ 🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟩🟩 ⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 27 November, 2025 "Praise for animating Kate Winslet in "Flushed Away"" (5,4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (28,643 solvers so far).
Wordle 1,621 4/6* (this was a tough one IMHO, unless one got lucky with better matches in the starting word. ) ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 26 November, 2025 (this was a genuinely tough one. Which should be rephrased as 'this was a tough one for me', because there are likely to be people who found it easier, or harder. so the assertion that it was a genuinely tough one in a general case is more nuanced in reality. Especially given I'm a few hours short of sleep today. I had a 4/10 sad moment yesterday, depending on your perspective, when going through a folder on my laptop and finding something moderately complicated and not being at all capable of understanding it, Hermann Ebbinghaus-like. Then I looked at the dates of the last files in that folder, they were around August 2024 as my father got, imminently, terminally ill.) "Run-down backpacker loses backpack" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (23,230 solvers so far).
GR postbox - King George V 1910-1936, probably a 1930s example because that's concomitant with nearby houses and infrastructure. image
Wordle 1,619 3/6* ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 24 November, 2025 "Unlocking kindness, insight and humility, starts with reflection!?" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (31,638 solvers so far).
Wordle 1,618 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ 🟩⬛🟨🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 23 November, 2025 "“Out-of-control carousel catapults you” declared fortune tellers" (7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (27,300 solvers so far).
If I've posted is already, apologies, it's not showing up anywhere. I was tired AF yesterday so maybe I didn't press post. Wordle 1,616 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ ⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 21 November, 2025 "Small diamond rings upset love... you've done it now!" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (22,720 solvers so far).
Wordle 1,617 3/6* ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Minute Cryptic - 22 November, 2025 "Exclusive school's tall characters expelled by petite principal" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (33,998 solvers so far).
Testing an upload from Amethyst in AVIF (which, annoyingly, has converted it to JPEG). A Victorian postbox. I wish more things supported AVIF. image