Today’s Wordle #628 Hint, Clues And Answer For Thursday, March 9th

Is it summer yet? It is finally starting to warm up. A hint of spring is in the air, though it’s quickly blown away by cold gusts of wintry wind. I find myself feeling resentful and crabby. I know it’s infantile to whine about the weather, but what can you do? Sometimes you just have to be a big man-baby about things, and this is one of them.

Melt, damned snow, melt!

Listen, we’ve had over 140 inches this winter. That’s just a couple feet more than Buffalo, NY has gotten (124.8 inches) a city that made headlines earlier this winter for all the snow that dumped there.

I’ll stop griping about the weather when this snow melts and I can take my dogs back out into the forest on regular hikes. They’re going crazy. They’re driving me crazy. I have to wallow a bit, shed some of this crazy.

Okay, let’s do this Wordle.

How To Solve Today’s Wordle

The Hint: Under there!

The Clue: There’s a duplicate letter in this Wordle.

The Answer (Spoilers):

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Today, I decided I’d ask ChatGPT to give me a list of five-letter words with lots of vowels. I’ll share that list with you below. I plucked my opening guess—ounce—from said list, though it ended up only getting me one letter in green and left 197 possible solutions.

From here, aisle gave me exactly zero more correct letters but did, fortunately, slash that number down to just 15. I figured we must be looking at a double-E word, so I went with theme and from here there was really only one option I could think of: where.

I tied Wordle Bot today with four guesses which means zero points for guessing in four and zero points for the tied game. Zero points! Huzzah!

The 15 vowel-heavy words are:

• Queue
• Oasis
• Juice
• Audio
• Quiet
• Suite
• Enact
• Quail
• Ounce
• Aisle
• Usual
• Elbow
• Fable
• Aroma
• Poise

I also asked ChatGPT to educate us on the etymology of “where” and this is the answer:

The word “where” comes from Old English “hwǣr,” which has cognates in other Germanic languages, such as “wo” in German and “hvar” in Old Norse. The root of the word is Proto-Germanic “hwar,” which means “where” or “anywhere.”

In Old English, “hwǣr” was used as both an interrogative and relative pronoun, meaning it could be used to ask a question (e.g., “Where are you going?”) or introduce a subordinate clause (e.g., “The house where I live is on Main Street.”). The word has evolved over time and is now used in a variety of contexts, including as an adverb of place, conjunction, and even as part of idiomatic expressions (e.g., “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire”).

Hvar there’s smoke, there’s fire.

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

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