Today’s Wordle #501 Hint, Clues And Answer For Wednesday, November 2nd

November is here, but it doesn’t look like we’re getting any cold November rain.

Snow, on the other hand, is in the forecast today. My daughter had Christmas songs playing yesterday also, so between snow and Jingle Bells it’s already starting to feel like Christmastime around here—which I’m okay with.

What can I say? I’m a sucker for Christmas. It’s the hap-happiest time of the year.

In any case, we’re now in Wordle’s 500 stretch, where we’ll remain until February. We still have something like 1800 more Wordles to play before the game runs out of five-letter words, though I suppose it could just start over and mix up the order (or move to six-letter words!)

Let’s tackle today’s shall we?

Today’s Wordle Solution (Spoilers!)

The Hint: When you’re really bad at something, you might be called this.

The Clue: This word has four of the same letters as yesterday’s Wordle.

The Answer:

I chose a new strategy today and it paid dividends, though that’s almost entirely luck. I picked yesterday’s Wordle as my starting guess. It’s a pretty good opener, with two vowels, two common consonants and a ‘Y’ and today it just so happened to get me four yellows.

What I didn’t realize at the time was that it also reduced my possible options down to just four. I chose the obvious next guess, shifting PINE over one spot and plopping an ‘S’ at the top. I figured this might even get me the Wordle in two!

Alas, all four boxes were still yellow, but now I knew that the word couldn’t end in an ‘E’. I didn’t realize only one option remained, but after juggling letters around I came up with inept and, much to my joy and happiness, that was the answer!

Now, I don’t want to call Wordle Bot inept or anything—we can write this off as bad luck—but I kind of destroyed him today, 3 to 5. Wordle Bot’s daily opener, slate, did get him two yellows, but from there it was one miss after another. Titer (impressive vocabulary!) then edict then befit and then, finally, inept. This makes me wonder if Wordle Bot could ever lose at this game. Five is down to the wire.

Have a lovely Wednesday, Wordlers!