Today’s Wordle #552 Hints, Clues And Answer For Friday, December 23rd

So this is Christmas. And what have you done? Another year over. And a new one just begun. And so this is Christmas. I hope you had fun. The near and the dear one. The old and the young.

A very merry Christmas! And a happy New Year! Let’s hope it’s a good one. Without any fear.

Have a holly, jolly Christmas. It’s the best time of the year. Now I don’t know if there’ll be snow, but have a cup of cheer.

Have a holly, jolly Christmas, and when you walk down the street, say hello to friends you know and everyone you meet.

Okay, I’m just having a little fun filling in the flavor text up top with some Christmas song lyrics. We have fun around here! We do goofy things.

But what we need to do is this Wordle. It’s a doozy.

How To Solve Today’s Wordle (spoilers!)

The Hint: A vampiric delicacy.

The Clue: There are more vowels than consonants in this word.

The Answer:

So I picked my opening word because it’s a great word and because I was thinking about quests as I watch the new Willow show on Disney Plus (which is truly terrible). So bad I made a video about how bad it is!

A show about a band of adventurers on an epic fantasy quest should be a lot better than this. It’s nowhere near as good as the movie, that’s for sure.

In any case, quest didn’t do that well, leaving me with 162 possible solutions. Fortunately, I whipped out doily and slashed that number down to just 17. Unfortunately, getting it on Guess #3 was still deeply unlikely with that many words left. I crossed my fingers and went with north, snagging three green boxes and leaving me scratching my head.

The answer was a tricky one and it took me a bit to come up with it. Though I didn’t know it at the time, it was also the only word remaining. Finally I tried ‘A’ in the opening slot and found my answer: aorta. Huzzah!

Alas, Wordle Bot snagged today’s word in just three guesses. C’est la vie . . . . I’m still happy with 4. Aorta is a tough word!