QUANT FLIERs = Quantifiers
From an idea by @Dez influenced & enlarged by @Documentalista & with contribitions by @Yal, @Jn (& others?).
The initial idea came after GROSS was the solution, and was expanded with more numbers and their derivatives. Also some ADDLE-LAYED alternatives.
See also:
- https://rentry.co/wordle-meta-list
- https://rentry.co/wordle-addle-layed
- https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4b839m
- https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4b8e1j
Contents:
Played in 2026
Jan 1 - MONAD UNITY ONCES ONCER FIRST PRIME ONELY
1657 FABLESee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4cr90h
Jan 2 - DEUCE DUETS DYADS HALVE HALFS TWINS PAIRS BRACE TUTUS 😂 OTHER AFTER
1658 PROOFSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4cs2hd- @YoDawg slipped in under the wire: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4csamn
Jan 3 - TRIAD THREE TREES TERCE THIRD TRINE TROIS
1659 SITARSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4csvl4
Jan 4 - QUART FOLIO FOURS FORTH LIPPY [= fourth part of a peck; in goods sold by weight usually 1¾ lb.] QUADS TETRA ZUZIM[silver coin anciently in use among the Jews, the fourth part of a silver shekel.]
[zenzizenzic, Designating the fourth power or root of a number; b. n.the square of a square; the fourth power of a number ]
1660 POSSESee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4ct95h
Jan 5 - QUINT FIFTH FIVER FIVES
1661 FILLYSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4cud1v
Jan 6 - HEXAD SIXTH SIXES SIXER SEXTO [Designating a size or shape of paper produced by folding the original printing sheet to form six leaves, a page of this size or shape, or a book composed of such pages] SECHS [German] SEXTS
1662 OOMPHSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4cvhh1
Jan 7 - SEVEN VIRGO [The number seven, which has no factors or multiples less than ten is called the Virgin Number. ] OUTER [OUTER countries: The name given to the original seven countries (Austria, Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K., at that time all non-members of the European Economic Community) which, in November 1959, formed the European Free Trade Association.]
1663 PECANSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4d0dhc
Jan 8 - OCTET OCTAD EIGHT
1664 BLASTSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4d1d8l
Jan 9 - NONET NINTH NINER NINES
1665 EIGHTSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4d2dk0
Jan 10 - DECAD DECAN TENTH MILLE
(The day had been claimed by Dr Tooth on Dec 10 but then he recused hemself as he is leaving the forum, see https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4cd40p)
1666 MANICSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4d3179
Jan 11 - ELVEN+SEIZE 😆
1667 QUARKSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4d3i8b
Jan 12 - DOZEN GROSS (Hail TERRY 🙇🏻♂️ ;)
1668 TRIALSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4d4eaa
Jan 13 - BAKER's DOZEN
1669 GUMBOSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4d5m17
Jan 14 - STONE(14 pounds to a stone) Fourteen is a Square Pyramidal Number: meaning you can stack 14 balls to form a pyramid with a square base (the sum of (1^{2}+2^{2}+3^{2}=14)).
1670 AVOIDSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4d6hjp
Jan 15 - the Ides of March Caesar's bane: FIfteen is a lucky number, a triangular number, a hexagonal number and a pentatope number, phosphorus is atomic number 15. THREE FIVES or maybe IDEAS MARCH to addle the most well-known ides.
1671 CHASMSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4d7spl
Jan 16 - POINTs in a compass [A]ROSE; OUNCEs to the POUND [and a PINT'S a POUND the WORLD aROUND]. SEIZE [French]
1672 RACERSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4d8kt2
Jan 17 - Seventh PRIME number; also the sum of 4 smaller prime numbers, atomic number 17 is chlorine, a pale GREENgas -name from the Greek for green. Addles: SEVEN TEENS or SEVEN TENTH
1673 FIERYSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4d9egg
Jan 18 - XVIII - ARGON atomic number
1674 SUMACSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4d9r7d
Jan 19 - In music, a '19 EQUAL temperament' is a tempered scale derived by dividing the octave into 19 equal steps. The MAGIChexagon of order 3 has 19 cells. thanks @Yal https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4d1qev
Late addle: NIGHT TEENS / EENSY
1675 WAXENSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4dac0t
Jan 20 - SCORE
1676 SULLYSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4db9u3
Jan 21 - LIBER ABACI Fibonacci opus e.g. 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34...
1677 CUBICSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4dc7q6
Jan 22 - CATCH-22
1678 CLINKSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4ddhem
Jan 23 - an ancient & venerated quant: PITHY AGORA or anagrammed TYPOS, AARGH! ;)
1679 BARONSee posts & links: https://www.nytimes.com/shared/comment/4de9ba
Jan 24 - FINIS
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May 24 - 144th day (Julian DOY), TERRY GROSS day!
Alternate QUANT F...R Addles
[@Dez tried to post the list below but something attracted the sudden and menacing glare of the EMU.]
Found by a quick and highly subjective survey of all playable words F...R:
Said @Dez, in that stifled post: "All of the above appeal almost equally, although I still like the connection with 'take a flier/flyer on something' and how the lowercase quantflier looks close to quantifier with just one transposition needed.
"Now striking me as funny variants, only after identifying the semi-good ones above, are:"
and still more: