Today’s Wordle #509 Thursday, November 10th Hints, Clues And Answer

Yesterday was rainy with a touch of sleet and the hint of snow—ironic weather given yesterday’s Wordle.

Today’s Wordle is ironic for other reasons and would have been even more at odds with yesterday’s big mid-term elections. That’s an extra hint for you, by the way. You’re welcome.

November is an odd month. It’s always felt very wintry to me, and not so much like autumn. Autumn often feels like the shortest season. If summer is a bonfire, then autumn is its dying embers, reduced quickly to the ash of winter. Autumn is a sun setting, brief and glorious with color.

It feels very much like fall fades pretty quickly after Halloween, and by the time Thanksgiving arrives we’re firmly rooted in winter, but in reality winter won’t begin until late December, just in time for Christmas.

Whatever the case, as Ned Stark never hesitates to remind us, winter is coming. So is the holiday season. And plenty more Wordles!

Let’s do this one, shall we?

Today’s Wordle Guide (Spoilers ahead!)

The Hint: Do this and we do the opposite of fall.

The Clue: This word begins with a vowel.

The Answer:

Holy moly, that was some lucky guessing. Sometimes I pick a ‘QU’ word for my opening guess because you can get a few vowels out of them usually. Quiet or quite are both triple-vowel openers.

I didn’t expect to get so close so quickly, however. This is, hands down, the luckiest possible opening guess that isn’t the actual answer itself. Since I’ve never gotten one of these in just one guess, this is officially my luckiest guess of all (which is a tad bit ironic given how close I was the other day).

Quite left me with just one possible guess, and I knew it had to be unite without a doubt. It’s ironic also because, well, we just had mid-term elections and the country feels anything but united, alas. Not that a little healthy division is a bad thing! We need to debate the issues, disagree on things, vote for different parties and politicians and all of that messy business. A country in total lockstep—total unity—would be unsettling and likely a farce.

Still, I wish we could be just a tad bit more united than we are. Or at least not demonize those with whom we disagree. Our political opponents are (usually) not monsters. Liberal, conservative, socialist, libertarian—we’re all human beings at the end of the day, trying to put food on the table and take care of our loved ones and find joy and meaning in the day-to-day grind. In this strange world we visit ever so briefly before shuffling off . . . to something new. Something different. Maybe to nothing at all. Who can say?

Oh, and back to the matter at hand: I defeated my nemesis, Wordle Bot, today! He took a whopping four tries. Bwahahahahaha!

Be excellent to each other, dearest Wordlers. And party on!