How to solve today’s Wordle.
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It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a Wordle. Won’t you be mine? The sun is shining after many days of grey, and the snow is . . . sort of melting. It’s still cold enough to justify staying indoors and solving puzzles. We have a Wordle to solve (or two, if you count the bonus Wordle below) so let’s get cracking!
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Today’s Bonus Wordle
Now that we can create our own custom Wordles, I’m including a bonus Wordle with each daily Wordle guide. These can be 4 to 7 letters long. Hopefully this is a fun extra challenge. Click the link below to play the Wordle I hand-crafted for you.
Today’s Bonus Custom Wordle is 7 letters long.
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The hint: Power.
The clue: This Wordle begins and ends with consonants.
Yesterday’s Custom Wordle Answer: PRUDISH
How To Solve Today’s WordleHow To Play Wordle
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Wordle is a daily word puzzle game where your goal is to guess a hidden five-letter word in six tries or fewer. After each guess, the game gives feedback to help you get closer to the answer:
Green: The letter is in the word and in the correct spot.Yellow: The letter is in the word, but in the wrong spot.Gray: The letter is not in the word at all.
Use these clues to narrow down your guesses. Every day brings a new word, and everyone around the world is trying to solve the same puzzle. Some Wordlers also play Competitive Wordle against friends, family, the Wordle Bot or even against me, your humble narrator. See rules for Competitive Wordle toward the end of this post.
Today’s Wordle Hints And AnswerWordle Bot’s Starting Word: SLATEMy Starting Word Today: CLOUT (175 words left)The Hint: Subatomic particleThe Clue: This Wordle has two vowels in a row.
Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming!
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The Answer:
Today’s Wordle
Screenshot: Erik KainWordle Bot Analysis
Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordle score with Wordle Bot right here.
CLOUT wasn’t a very good opener today, leaving me with one yellow “U” and 175 possible solutions. SUPER was . . . not super, but not terrible and MURKY cut my options down to just two: QUARK and QUIRK. I was pretty sure we’d had QUIRK before (we don’t get a lot of QU Wordles) so I went with QUARK. Thank goodness my memory isn’t completely shot!
Competitive Wordle Score
Today’s Wordle Bot
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Once again, the Wordle Bot and I tie with 4 guesses apiece. That’s 0 points for both of us, and our January totals do not budge.
Erik: 7 points
Wordle Bot: 4 points
How To Play Competitive WordleGuessing in 1 is worth 3 points; guessing in 2 is worth 2 points; guessing in 3 is worth 1 point; guessing in 4 is worth 0 points; guessing in 5 is -1 points; guessing in 6 is -2 points and missing the Wordle is -3 points.If you beat your opponent you get 1 point. If you tie, you get 0 points. And if you lose to your opponent, you get -1 point. Add it up to get your score. Keep a daily running score or just play for a new score each day.Fridays are 2XP, meaning you double your points—positive or negative.You can keep a running tally or just play day-by-day. Enjoy!Today’s Wordle Etymology
A quark is a fundamental subatomic particle that combines with other quarks to form hadrons such as protons and neutrons; quarks carry fractional electric charge and are bound together by the strong nuclear force.
The word quark was borrowed into physics by Murray Gell-Mann in 1964 from James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake, where the phrase “Three quarks for Muster Mark!” appears. Joyce likely intended it as an onomatopoeic sound, echoing the cry of a seabird, and possibly playing on the German Quark, meaning “curd” or “nonsense.”
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