Today’s Wordle #512 Hints, Clues And Answer For Sunday, November 13th

On November 13th, 1789, Benjamin Franklin wrote “Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.”

The quotation comes from a letter Franklin penned to French scientist Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, who Franklin was worried about, having not heard from him since the start of the bloody French Revolution.

“My health continues much as it has been for some time,” Franklin concluded, “except that I grow thinner and weaker so that I cannot expect to hold out much longer.”

He died several months later, on April 17th, 1790 at the ripe old age of 84.

“Death and taxes” has gone on to become one of Franklin’s most famous and most often-cited quotations. And these days, with the United States in one dire strait after another, Franklin may well be right about the durability of the Constitution.

Then again, we’ve been through some pretty tough spots in our nation’s history. Not long after the Constitution was written, two of the Founding Fathers—John Adams and Thomas Jefferson—had a falling out that would last the rest of their lives. From the very start, or at least once George Washington had served his time as president, the country was at odds, eventually culminating in the Civil War, an event we still feel the repercussions of today. Slavery, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, Iraq, the Depression, the Housing Crisis. The pandemic.

Times, you might argue, are always and have always been hard and we seem to persevere. I’m not sure we’re any more divided than we always have been, either. It just seems that way thanks to 24 hour news and social media. Maybe I just want to be an optimist.

Anyways, I’ll stop rambling on now. Let’s do this Wordle!

Today’s Wordle Solution (Spoilers!)

The Hint: Absolutely hairbrained.

The Clue: There are three vowels in this word.

The Answer:

You will all be happy to know that I beat Wordle Bot today. The silly robot took four guesses to get to the final answer. Slate / prick / image/ inane was the path he took.

I got . . . very lucky, though I really wish I’d managed to pull this off in two again. I’ve had some crazy good luck with my opening guesses lately. Today, irate left me with just two options. I guessed image, unfortunately, but I don’t think it was too inane of me.

On Friday, my opening guess also left me with just two remaining possibilities and the day before that, my opening guess left me with just one! I feel like any day now I’ll get my first hole in one! It’s in the air!

If that happens I’m just going to write one word: Huzzah!

Have a nice and hopefully lazy Sunday, dearest Wordlers.