Alphaguess poems
Alphaguess is a cool word puzzle that you play by guessing a random English word and being told whether the word of the day comes alphabetically earlier or later than your guessed word. ​I started playing and soon found that my list of guesses often read like an interesting and unexpected poem. Here are those poems. The word of the day is in red. My first guess is always "noon." It generally takes me 10 to 20 guesses to find the word of the day, so that's the length of the poems.
December 2024
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12/8/2024
borrow
earnest
emptiness
empty
enabled
energy
enough
everything
failing
from
ghastly
noon
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12/9/2024
noon
pause
ringing
rope
rung
sacred
sacrifice
saddle
safe
sagging
silent
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12/10/2024
atone
baby
burst
chastened
chewing
chirping
chomp
choose
chop
chore
chose
chrome
churn
circle
clamoring
cool
noon
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12/11/2024
noon,
perhaps
poor
pouring
pressure
pretend
pretension
pretentious
pretext
pretty
pricking
prim
private
prose,
pushed
recoiled
snapping
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12/12/24
attention,
beyond
boiling
bubbling
comes
crazed
crisp
crooked
cross
crouch
crow
crowd
crowded
noon
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12/13/24
noon
potent
precarious
pregnant
princess
producing
providing
prude
public
pucker
puddle
puff
pull
pulp
pure
pushy
quarrelsome
queen
rasping
roaring
sunset
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12/14/24
​noon
walking
weighted
​
while
wielding
wife
wiggle
​
wild
women
wonderful
young
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12/15/24
​bold
breeder
​
budding
bulb
​
buoyant
burlesque
​
business
busy
​
button
buttoned
​
cage
capsule
cavity
​
clever
noon
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12/16/24
​after
beyond
body
bursting
certainty,
cheerful,
collapses
combat
combine
combust
comes
crumbling
noon
​------------------------------
12/17/24
although
crisp
girlhood
lightning,
marvelous
moody
more
mortal
mothers
mouthy
muddy
mythic
noon
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12/19/24
babbling
bachelor
back
backward
​
badly
baffled
​
basking
beauty
​
breaking
noon
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12/20/24
noon,
tender
wet
whetted
​
whole
wide
wild
will
​
winter
wolfish
yearning
​
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January 2025
1/8/25
noon,
perfect
potent
​
protruding
public
puck
pucker
​
pudding
puddle
​
pull
pulse
punctual,
really
screaming
​
(a great example of the game fucking me from the start; "pudding" an almost uniquely unpoetic word)
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​​​1/9/25
before
inhaling,
​
light,
long
longer
longevity
​
longhand
longing,
looks
looming
looping
lost
​
loyal
lust
makes
noon
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1/10/25
catcalling
cawing
​
ceaseless
ceiling
​
celebrity
cellar
century
​
chance,
chesty
clever
cold,
​
cursing
daddy
dusk,
flighty
noon
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​​​1/13/25
crisp
ferocious
idiots
lamenting
morning
​
naked
narrative
​
natural
nature
nausea
​
navy-
neat
need
neglecting
nickeled
noon
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1/14/25
all
anxiety
​
apparent
apprehension
​
arbitrary
arch
architecture
​
ardent
argument
armor
​
art,
baby,
before
noon
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1/15/25
buzzing
fussy
galling
​
god
grant
gritty
grotesque
group
growth
​
guardian
guts
imagination
​
ladylike
noon
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1/17/25
catch
fire
​
imagine
losing
my
neglected
never
​
nice
night,
noon
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1/21/25
noon
punctuated
quaint
queer
quell
quench
question
quickly
quoted
reaching
tumbling
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1/23/25
noon,
numb,
obliging
old
orbits
​
orienting
orthodox,
oscillating
osmosis
ostensibly
​
otherwise
preaching
ruthless
yellow
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1/25/25
collapsing
frankly
​
junk
lady
leisure
​
lemon
lewdly
limply
loving
luscious
noon
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1/27/25
bastard
earnest
future
​
glaring
gloat
​
glorifying
glow
​
glue
gnashing
greed
​
half
knockoff
noon
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1/28/25
cold
fitful
immense
labor
​
last
laugh,
least
lessened
logic
​
lunar
noon
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1/30/25
careful
edits,
empty
enough
enter
enthusiastic
entropy.
Entry
envelope,
envy
epidemic
eroding
faceless,
gutting
noon
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February 2025
​
2/3/25
noon,
obedient
ongoing
opal
​
orbiting
ordinary
organ,
original
ornament,
​
orphaned
overnight,
punishing
turncoat
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2/4/25
avoid
baleful
bastards
baying
​
beach
beady
​
beastly
beauty
​
blood
butchers
​
collapsing
noon
​
ugh I'm writing a poem that is rapidly turning into something about werewolves and the WOTD turns out to be freaking beach
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​
2/5/25
destroy
hysterical
lesser
machines
missing
mortal
mud
​
multiple
mundane
murders
murmur,
nagging
noon
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2/6/25
​
everything
except
exercise
exhausts
existence
​
experience
fades,
galloping
haggard,
just
noon
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2/11/25
destroy
hope
​
kill
madness
​
muzzle
naive
names
​
narcotic
narrow
nation
​
naturally
negligible
noon
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2/12/25
black
eye,
furious
gnawing
gold
​
grab
grace,
grade
grand
​
grasp
gray-
green
ground
​
half
junk
noon
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2/13/25
devour
future
gusts
​
high
hollow
hungry
​
inviolate
noon
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2/14/25
eaten,
failed,
filthy
flytrap
​
force
forward
foster
foul
fracture
furtive,
guilty-
jaw
noon
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