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Another day, another Wordle. We’re one week into March and so far, this month’s puzzles have been pretty fun. Just challenging enough to get the little grey cells working, as Hercule Poirot would say.
Poirot, of course, was one of British mystery novelist Agatha Christie’s most famous characters, a small Belgian detective whose sleuth skills are without parallel, and the star of many of her most famous stories including Murder On The Orient Express.
Christie’s other most famous detective was Miss Marple, whose own mystery solving skills would make her an excellent Wordle-solver, I’m sure. I have mysteries on my mind as I’ve been on a bit of a mystery kick lately. Well, mystery and spy thrillers I suppose. I’d like to finally write my own so it’s time to read as many as possible as research.
I just started Louise Penny’s first Chief Inspector Armand Gamache novel, Still Life, which came to my attention when I read about the new show Three Pines, which I have yet to see, which is based on Penny’s books. Puzzles, mysteries, unsolved cases—these are a few of my favorite things. (If you haven’t seen Only Murders In The Building yet, please do!)
We can solve our own little mystery right now with today’s Wordle. Let’s do it!
Alright, on to today’s Wordle!
How To Solve Today’s Wordle
The Hint: Companion and sidekick to the Brain.
The Clue: There are more consonants than vowels in this word.
The Answer (Spoilers):
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Today’s Wordle
Things started off rather badly for me today. Blade secured exactly zero green boxes, zero yellow boxes and left me with a whopping 492 remaining possible solutions. Grim tidings continued when scour left me with exactly five more grey boxes and nary a single correct letter in two whole guesses. Big yikes!
From here, my luck turned considerably. It’s crazy how sometimes you can guess so well right off the bat but still take four or five guesses, and other times you can guess really badly at first but still get the answer in just as many. Such was the case today.
Assuming that I would likely have an ‘I’ and possibly a ‘Y’ given all my other vowels were misses, I guessed minty and secured three green boxes. I was left with several possible guesses, and wavered a bit between kinky (which is more fun) and pinky (which has more letter variety). I went with the latter and scored a win. Huzzah!
In fact, I beat Wordle Bot, who went with kinky before guessing pinky and nabbed the answer in five. Silly robots, puzzles are for kids. That’s 1 point for House Kain since four guesses is zero points. I’ll take it!
I asked ChatGPT to educate us on the etymology of “pinky” and this is what I learned:
The word “pinky” is a diminutive form of the word “pink,” which in Middle English meant “small,” “minuscule,” or “tiny.”
The word “pink” can be traced back to the Dutch word “pinck” or “pink,” which referred to a small ship with a narrow stern. This term was adopted by the English language in the 16th century and gradually began to be used to describe small objects and body parts, including the smallest finger on the hand.
The word “pinky” itself first appeared in the English language in the 1800s as a colloquial term for the smallest finger on the hand. Over time, the word “pinky” has become the most common way to refer to the fifth digit, although it is still sometimes referred to as the “little finger” or the “baby finger.”
See, I did not know that! You learn something new every day . . . if you have a curious enough mind to make the effort. I suspect if you’re a Wordler you have a curious enough mind.
Play Competitive Wordle Against Me!
I’ve been playing a cutthroat game of PvP Wordle against my nemesis Wordle But. Now you should play against me! I can be your nemesis! (And your helpful Wordle guide, of course).
Here are the rules:
- 1 point for getting the Wordle in 3 guesses.
- 2 points for getting it in 2 guesses.
- 3 points for getting it in 1 guess.
- 1 point for beating Erik
- 0 points for getting it in 4 guesses.
- -1 point for getting it in 5 guesses.
- -2 points for getting it in 6 guesses.
- -3 points for losing.
- -1 point for losing to Erik
Your best game would be a hole in 1 (3 points) and beating me (1 point) for 4 total. Your worst would be failing to guess the correct answer (-3 points) and losing to me (-1) point for a -4 total. These are outlier scores, however. Usually my worst is a -2 and my best a +2.
Have a lovely day, my dearest Wordlers!
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Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2023/03/05/todays-wordle-625-hint-clues-and-answer-for-monday-march-6th/