The answer to Wordle #1,219 was

DICEY: Fraught with danger.

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Word difficulty: Tricky

Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English.

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How difficult was it for the solver?

In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #1,219 scores 53/100 for solver difficulty (middle of the pack).

20 Possible answers after CRANE
170 Possible answers after SLATE
9 Possible answers after ADIEU
4 Guesses in the solver replay

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Wordle #1,219, measured

This section compares DICEY's solver-difficulty percentile, first-guess results for ten familiar openers, and opt-in player reports. Each number identifies its dataset.

Solver difficulty, as a percentile

53/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, DICEY measured harder for the solver than about 53% of all 1,906 recorded answers to date. Its rating is middle of the pack. The example solver route takes four turns; CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 66.3 possible answers.

Solver pressure ranks the answer within the pool; it does not measure player performance. The opener table compares first-guess results, and the contributed ratings report player results.

CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU benchmark

ADIEU left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 9 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, SLATE left 170 candidates, about 19 times as many.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against DICEY, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
ADIEU ADIEU 9
TRACE TRACE 13
CRANE CRANE 20
ARISE ARISE 38
RAISE RAISE 38
AUDIO AUDIO 49
SALET SALET 108
STARE STARE 119
TARSE TARSE 119
SLATE SLATE 170

“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,374-word working answer pool whose feedback would match that opener exactly. This is pattern arithmetic, not a simulation. A smaller number means the opener left fewer possible answers after the first guess. It does not describe later turns.

Contributed player ratings

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1 Suppressed
2 Suppressed
3 Suppressed
4 Suppressed
5 Suppressed
6 Suppressed
X Suppressed

The bars pool all 26 contributed games across every completed puzzle. The Observatory does not publish per-puzzle guess distributions below its sample threshold, so this is the broadest available comparison. “Suppressed” marks a low-count cell.

Solver replay

One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to DICEY.

The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for October 20, 2024?
The Wordle answer for October 20, 2024 (puzzle #1219) was DICEY.
What does DICEY mean?
DICEY: Fraught with danger.
Why was Wordle #1219 tricky?
DICEY is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon in general English.

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