Today’s Wordle #667 Hints, Clues And Answers For Monday, April 17th

And we’re back! It’s Monday, folks, and that means another week grinding away, tilting at windmills, climbing the ladder, running the rat race, setting ambitious goals and trying not to break them, falling into old habits, dreaming big dreams, failing, overcoming obstacles, and solving Wordles.

Don’t worry, the existential dread will pass. Everything does!

Time is an illusion, of course, but it sure does seem to sluice past me with gusto. The temporal momentum these days is a bit much for my taste. I was thinking about how in another decade all my closest friends will be in their fifties, and when we get together for game night we’ll all be grey and our kids will all be in their teens and twenties (mine will be nearly 26 and 23 in a decade, and I’ll be hurtling toward 52).

I think for a stretch of time you just feel young. Well into my 30s I felt young, and then suddenly there was this turn in the road that I didn’t even notice and now I feel . . . . not old, that’s not it. But not young, either.

Good grief, it’s a middle feeling. I feel middle-aged, which in many ways is more terrifying when you’re young. Old feels too abstract but middle-aged, well that’s how we’ve thought of our parents for so long!

Right, anyways, enough about all that. It’s time to do this Wordle!

How To Solve Today’s Wordle

The Hint: A swing and a miss.

The Clue: This word has a double letter.

I included the side-by-side of my score and Wordle Bot’s today because I thought it was so interesting how much they mirror each other. I picked spate while the Bot picked his favorite, slate. Both left us with five grey boxes.

From here it was cloud for me and crony for the Bot (which figures, given we all know he’s corrupt) and once again, we both came back empty. At this point I’d eliminated every vowel but ‘Y’ and ‘I’ and all Wordle Bot had left was ‘U’ and ‘I’. I guessed grimy and he picked vivid.

This time, I scored one green box and the Bot scored one yellow box, but both left us with the answer: whiff.

Fitting, given how badly we both whiffed our first two guesses!

(My score today: 0 for guessing in 4 and 0 for tying Wordle Bot for a total of 0. I am fine with this.)

Today’s Wordle Etymology (Via ChatGPT)

The word “whiff” has its origins in Middle English, where it was spelled “whiffe” and meant a quick puff or gust of air. This word ultimately derives from the Old Norse “hvīfa,” which means “to move quickly or turn suddenly.” In the 16th century, “whiff” came to be used to refer to a puff or gust of smoke, and by the 17th century, it was also used to describe a brief, faint scent or odor. In the 19th century, the term “whiff” was adopted by baseball players to describe a missed swing or a swing that failed to make contact with the ball, which is still its most common usage in sports today.

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). You can also play against the Bot if you have a New York Times subscription.

• 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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