Sometime in 2022 I started playing Wordle, then I was introduced to Quordle, Qwordle and a variety of food related wordles called foodle.
In late December I started getting the feeling that for the 3 different foodles I’d been playing I’d seen the day’s answer before. So I started writing down the answers. Columns are:
- Foodle – no link since it’s disappeared.
- Date – ddmm
- food-le.com
- foodlewordle.io
fries 2712 ?
drink 2812 minty pound
hunky 2912 berry grist
limes 3012 dates ovens
scrap 3112 clams mushy
torte 0101 prune cukes
rinds 0201 aspic munch
dashi 0301 dough fibre
fried 0401 pecan leafy
fungi 0501 lunch feast
knife 0601 basil chard
apron 0701 curry chunk
sugar 0801 rujak bombe
jello 0901 gummy bunch
paste 1001 bacon broil
zesty 1101 fudge spear
patty 1201 cakes tacos
honey 1301 baozi wurst
treat 1401 dried sumac
The first foodle site stopped working on 15th January 2023. From then on I just wrote down the answers for food-le.com and foodlewordle.io… if I’d done them that day.
1501 broil
1601 sugar pulse
1701 toast nacho
1801 oreos basil
1901 heinz score
2001 icing syrah
2101 guava torte
2201 bhaji yodel
2301 cream cream
2401 torte snack
2501 water serve
2601 pasta plums
2701 snack mirin
2801 crisp crudo
2901 flour broth
3001 chips icing
3101 anise fudge
0102 punch wedge
0202 bagel latke
0302 tuber tapas
0402 grape stale
0502 squid bream
0602 salsa apron
0702 ugali cocoa
0802 ladle guava
0902 drink sauce
1002 beans toffy
1102 ramen flute
1202 spuds detox
1302 bland dough
1402 diner glaze
1502 stove shake
1602 mango stalk
1702 salts pekoe
1802 crust umami
1902 dairy yummy
2002 bread skate
2102 spoon rolls
2202 spork beets
2302 apron crisp
2502 herbs
2602 syrup sweat
2702
2802 order thyme
0103 shred scale
0203 lager tangy
0303 plate aioli
0304 sweet korma
0305 crust seeds
0306 etrog grind
0307 seeds fizzy
0308 peach blade
0309 liver pinto
0311 latte stock
0312 wafer corer
0313 lassi aroma
It wasn’t until mid March that I realised I could have encountered a food related word when playing Wordle. So I started noting wordle’s answers in the first column, before the date.
surly 0314 knife drain
sweep 0315 slime poach
cider 0316 ranch shank
mealy 0317 cater cruet
yacht 0318 manti ramps
credo 0319 straw gyros
glove 0320 purée dozen
tough 0321 apple panko
duvet 0322 onion ? didn’t work!
staid 0323 grain jelly
grout 0324 crabs perch
voter 0325 jelly tuber
guano 0327 patty grits
hurry 0328
beset 0329 fruit split
bread 0330 spicy mocha
flora 0403 pilaf carve
ratio 0404
smash 0405 candy syrup
leafy 0406 fried tongs
locus 0407 mochi dicer
ledge 0408 vegan ponzu
snafu 0409 jelly kasha
under 0410 honey honey
qualm 0411 feast paste
0412
carat 0413 latke bento
agony 0415 chili parch
dwelt 0416 olive
whiff 0417 thyme chips
hound 0418 wheat vodka
thump 0419 munch spork
plate 0420 taffy
kayak 0421 kebab pears
broke 0422 queso sable
unzip 0423 curds haste
ditto 0424 sauce diner
joker 0425 roast spicy
metro 0426 fries chili
logic 0427 chard knead
circa 0428 syrup gorge
cedar 0429
plaza 0430 gravy blini
range 0501 pizza fried
sulky 0502 juice steam
horde 0503 cumin scoop
Eventually, my efforts paid off. On the 5th May I noticed that food-le.com had started repeating itself. See 2812 above.
guppy 0504 minty satay
below 0505 berry kiwis
anger 0506 dates cress
ghoul 0507 clams anjou
aglow 0508 prune cider
cocoa 0509 aspic bland
ethic 0510 dough prawn
broom 0511 pecan latte
snack 0512 lunch curds
acrid 0513 basil carob
scarf 0514 curry brats
canoe 0515 rujak grape
latte 0516 gummy sugar
plank 0517 bacon salsa
shorn 0518 fudge stein
grief 0519 cakes pilaf
flask 0520 baozi sharp
brash 0521 dried peeps
igloo 0522 broil jello
clerk 0523 sugar
utter 0524 toast ranch
bagel 0525 oreos squid
swine 0526 heinz savor
ramen 0527 icing cubes
skimp 0528 guava brine
mouse 0529 bhaji glass
kneel 0530 cream treat
agile 0531 torte ricer
jazzy 0601 water ?
humid 0602 pasta sushi
nanny 0603 snack smelt
beast 0604 crisp smoke
ennui 0605 flour unagi
scout 0606 chips stove
hater 0607 anise scrap
crumb 0608 punch kebab
balsa 0609 bagel durum
again 0610 tuber tbone
guard 0611 grape shuck
wrong 0612 squid ladle
plunk 0613 salsa taste
Which means that for over a month I’ve been getting a response of Impossible each time I get the answer correct on my first attempt.

But that’s not hard, since food-le.com doesn’t have a good memory… you can play the game as many times as you like in a day.
Anyway, these are the answers I’ve recorded over the last 5 months or so.
Feel free to use this post as a crib sheet. See below.
It’ll make doing food-le.com a rather pointless exercise, unless, like me, you’re waiting for the day when the word list is updated so the answer can no longer be predicted.
Results of interest
- On 4th April both foodles had
honey
for the chosen word. - On 25th May I did actually guess
squid
in one for foodlewordle - Foodlewordle is quite tricky
- sometimes since its food related vocabulary is rather limited eg. It didn’t accept pasty.
- and it often has food I’ve never heard of: gyros, panko, ponzu, kasha, spork to name a few
Strange words that are accepted
It appears that both foodles accept some words that I find hard to believe are food related:
- shite
- snark
- sarge
- spake
- sebum
- stend
- bolar
- peeps
- plebs
- slily
- sinus
- strum, but not strip
- smogs
- slugs
- burke
- shuck
- scart
- swarm
- bothy
- wadge
- divot
- julia
- wrick
- frito
- sider
- boing
- slots
- speck
- blips
- prost
- scape
- balsa
- coaly
The reason there are a lot of S words in this list is because that’s how I play wordle related games. My first guess starts with an S, and if the S doesn’t get a green, the second with a B – often bacon
.
food-le.com crib sheet for 13th June 2023 to 13 17th October 2023
From salsa to salsa, with a few blanks.
I’ve had it wrong a couple of times where I’d missed recording my answers for the date or wrote them in the wrong order.
Corrections made from 31st July to 11th August.
- I’ve had the wrong answer for quite a few days in the last week or so.
- I wonder if the set of words has been changed?
- Or maybe they’ve been reordered
Perhaps not… see next orange annotation.
Date Word 13 June 2023 salsa 14 June 2023 ugali 15 June 2023 ladle 16 June 2023 drink 17 June 2023 beans 18 June 2023 ramen 19 June 2023 spuds 20 June 2023 bland 21 June 2023 diner 22 June 2023 stove 23 June 2023 mango 24 June 2023 salts 25 June 2023 crust 26 June 2023 dairy 27 June 2023 bread 28 June 2023 spoon 29 June 2023 spork 30 June 2023 apron 01 July 2023 crepe 02 July 2023 herbs 03 July 2023 maize 04 July 2023 syrup 05 July 2023 order 06 July 2023 shred 07 July 2023 lager 08 July 2023 plate 09 July 2023 sweet 10 July 2023 crust 11 July 2023 etrog 12 July 2023 seeds 13 July 2023 peach 14 July 2023 liver 15 July 2023 namul 16 July 2023 latte 17 July 2023 wafer 18 July 2023 lassi 19 July 2023 knife 20 July 2023 slime 21 July 2023 ranch 22 July 2023 cater 23 July 2023 manti 24 July 2023 straw 25 July 2023 purée 26 July 2023 apple 27 July 2023 onion 28 July 2023 grain 29 July 2023 crabs 30 July 2023 jelly 31 July 2023 melon not patty 01 August 2023 patty 02 August 2023 adobo not fruit 03 August 2023 fruit 04 August 2023 spicy 05 August 2023 lemon not pilaf - maybe that's tomorrows 06 August 2023 salad not candy 07 August 2023 taste not fried 08 August 2023 pilaf not mochi 09 August 2023 steak not vegan 10 August 2023 candy not jelly 11 August 2023 fried not honey
Looking back at my history it appears I’d missed a few days at the end of March beginning of April; that was Rachel and Mike’s wedding. Let’s see if my updated prediction are correct from the 12th August, after which the cycle will repeat from salsa ( 6th Feb, and 13th June, 17th October ).
12 August 2023 mochi 13 August 2023 vegan 14 August 2023 jelly 15 August 2023 honey 16 August 2023 feast 17 August 2023 yeast 18 August 2023 latke
I’d missed baste
for the 19th August
19 August 2023 baste 20 August 2023 chili 21 August 2023 olive 22 August 2023 thyme 23 August 2023 wheat 24 August 2023 munch 25 August 2023 taffy 26 August 2023 kebab 27 August 2023 queso 28 August 2023 curds 29 August 2023 sauce 30 August 2023 roast 31 August 2023 fries 01 September 2023 chard 02 September 2023 syrup 03 September 2023 04 September 2023 gravy 05 September 2023 pizza 06 September 2023 juice 07 September 2023 cumin 08 September 2023 minty 09 September 2023 berry 10 September 2023 dates 11 September 2023 clams 12 September 2023 prune 13 September 2023 aspic 14 September 2023 dough 15 September 2023 pecan 16 September 2023 lunch 17 September 2023 basil 18 September 2023 curry 19 September 2023 rujak 20 September 2023 gummy 21 September 2023 bacon 22 September 2023 fudge 23 September 2023 cakes 24 September 2023 baozi 25 September 2023 dried 26 September 2023 broil 27 September 2023 sugar 28 September 2023 toast 29 September 2023 oreos 30 September 2023 heinz 01 October 2023 icing 02 October 2023 guava 03 October 2023 bhaji 04 October 2023 cream 05 October 2023 torte 06 October 2023 water 07 October 2023 pasta 08 October 2023 snack 09 October 2023 crisp 10 October 2023 flour 11 October 2023 chips 12 October 2023 anise 13 October 2023 punch 14 October 2023 bagel 15 October 2023 tuber 16 October 2023 grape 17 October 2023 squid 18 October 2023 salsa