Today’s Wordle #518 Hints, Clues And Answer For Saturday, November 19th

I have a bone to pick with Wordle Bot today. I won’t get to that up here in the non-spoiler section of this post, however. I just wanted to let you all know that bones will be picked below, and I do mean picked.

It’s another lovely, cool, crisp winter day (despite it still being autumn). Today is Saturday and I’m looking forward to a weekend of hiking and relaxing and maybe just a little bit of weight-lifting. My kids have been sick for what seems like forever with these ridiculous colds, and I think we all have cabin fever. They need to go back to school ASAP. I like having some hours to myself in the day, no matter how much I love them.

But a hike is a great way to get alone time, and I live in the middle of a giant forest, so why not take advantage of it?

Before I can do that, however, let’s solve this Wordle. It’s not as hard as yesterday’s but it’s still tricky!

How To Solve Today’s Wordle (Spoilers!)

The Clue: Do this with your eyes if you don’t want to see something but can’t close them for some reason.

The Hint: This word begins with a vowel.

The Answer:

Avert thine eyes! If you don’t want to see the answer for today’s Wordle, that is.

I opened with trope—love me some tropes!—and it turned out to be a pretty good guess. Only 48 solutions remained, and I had three yellow boxes. Three turned to four with my next guess, earth, though according to Wordle Bot ‘easel would have been more efficient.’ Sure thing, buddy.

Earth brought my remaining solutions down to just 7, and then I made a guess that was oh-so-close but oh-so-wrong. Alert seemed like a winner to me. And when the ‘A’ turned green I was hopeful. Those hopes were dashed instantly when ‘L’ popped up grey and avert was the only possible choice remaining. But hey, four ain’t bad!

Now my bone-picking with Wordle Bot commences. He got this one in just three, but look at his second guess:

With just slate, there are still a bunch of possible answers. About as many as with my guess, trope. So how on earth does Wordle Bot come up with treed of all words? What a strange word to even consider or come up with. And, of course, it miraculously narrowed his possible remaining words to just two: avert and alert. Making matters worse, he guesses the less obvious answer, avert, before trying the more obvious answer, alert (L being more common than V). It all just smells fishy to me, and not good fishy. Not like the smell of halibut cooking in butter and garlic. Like rotten fish on the beach.

No Huzzahs today, folks. Avert thine ears!