Today’s Wordle #536 Hints, Clues And Answer For Wednesday, December 7th

Another day, another Wordle. The viral word puzzle game created by Josh Wardle and sold to The New York Times earlier this year for a low seven-figure sum has remained extremely popular throughout 2022 and looks as though it will continue to go strong in 2023 (though the heady days of January – March of 2022, when the game was at its peak, will never be seen again).

Some players have left because puzzle games like this just aren’t for them. Others have moved on to trickier apps like Quordle. I like the simple elegance of Wordle. One word per day, nothing more and nothing less. It’s a fun little diversion that never occupies too much of your time. It can be challenging and get you thinking, but it’s rarely frustrating.

Today’s word is one of my favorites in a long time. Let’s take a look!

Today’s Wordle Hints & Solution (with spoilers!)

The Hint: A favorite pastime of the nobles, knights and kings of Westeros.

The Clue: This Wordle begins with an 8-point Scrabble letter.

The Answer:

I feel pretty good about this one, despite tying Wordle Bot again. We’ve been neck-and-neck lately, which is better than having the damn robot win!

(Yes, Wordle has become a duel of wits for me. I no longer play just to see how well I can do; I play to beat the Bot).

Spoil ended up being a lucky opener today, slashing the number of possible solutions down to just 44. I needed to test out more vowels since I only had the ‘O’ and came up with trade (Wordle Bot says burst would have been better, but that’s only because the final word had a ‘U’ which I had no way of knowing!)

At this point, I could only think of two possible remaining solutions and they were both great words: gusto and joust. I went with joust because I’ve been obsessed with all things knights and chivalry lately and have been making Midjourney AI art like this:

In any case, I guess my inner Medieval history nerd self got me the win today. Or, got it for me in three guesses instead of four. Huzzah!