Today’s Wordle #1522 Hints And Answer For Tuesday, August 19th

How to solve today’s Wordle.

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The New York Times games section launched a brand new game this week called Pips. You have to line up dominoes just so, placing all your pieces into an increasingly elaborate grid. It gets quite challenging. It’s definitely a puzzle for visual thinkers, much more so than Wordle.

Speaking of Wordle, let’s solve today’s!

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How To Play Wordle

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 Answer

Wordle Bot’s Starting Word: SLATE

My Starting Word Today: CRIME (163 words remaining)

The Hint: Uproarious. Wild.

The Clue: This Wordle ends in a ‘Y’.

Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming!

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The Answer:

Wordle Analysis

Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here.

CRIME didn’t really pay once again. It never does but I keep trying it as my opening guess just to be sure. To be fair, it was better than Wordle Bot’s SLATE! ROAST slashed the 163 words I had left to just 3, and from here…oh man, I almost guessed ROWDY but then ROUND seemed like a better choice. Oh well. I got it in four.

Competitive Wordle Score

The Bot and I each get 0 for guessing in four and 0 for tying, leaving our August totals at:

Erik: 9 points

Wordle Bot: 13 points

How To Play Competitive Wordle

• Guessing 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

The word rowdy comes from the mid-18th century American English slang term rowdy meaning “rough, disorderly person.” It’s probably a shortened form of rowdy-dowdy, itself an alteration of rigmarole-style slang for a boisterous, noisy fellow. The root idea is “one who makes a row” (where row meant a noisy disturbance or quarrel). Over time, it shifted from describing a rough or violent person to the more general “boisterous, loud, unruly.”

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