words from wordle 1,950
PENNY invited thrift, value, payment, and the familiar phrase “penny for your thoughts,” but the group found plenty of stranger uses too. Jonesy turns organ meat into an extreme economy measure, Mark uses the old expression as a dry response to someone sleeping through the show, and Lari replaces the usual group-photo “cheese” with a cheerfully absurd “PENNY!”
Elsewhere, the word becomes a measure of affection, worthlessness, or something much more mysterious. Mick’s darker version makes a single penny feel like evidence at an implied crime scene. Across the group, PENNY worked best when its small value contrasted with something larger—cost, feeling, embarrassment, or consequence.
Debbie Wilson 4/6
The man’s not too SMART
A GHOUL with a PINKY ring
PENNY for his thoughts
Jonesy 4/6
ORGAN of the SWINE
a BLUNT offal way to dine
to save a PENNY!
Mark 4/6
SNORE CLEAN through act one
Dull BEING one description
PENNY for your thoughts?
Robo 4/6
The DRAFT sent a chill
A SPOIL to the hot wet PUNCH
PENNY for your thought
auntie jj 4/6
it’s not RIGHT, the BLEED
MEANY red flow, the harsh words
not worth a PENNY
Lari 4/6
GROUP photo! Stand here.
Keep your PLACE, no PESKY moves.
And now say, “PENNY!”
B-lu 4/6
I STARE at the CHECK
pay for dinner with LOVEY
worth every PENNY!
Mick 3/6
Poem 1
a TRACE, the sly glance,
the FIEND, darkly dressed, bends low
pockets grim PENNY
Poem 2
not a TRACE of blood
the FIEND, darkly dressed, bends low
pockets grim PENNY