Today’s Wordle #640 Hint, Clues And Answer For Tuesday, March 21st

Spring is here at last, which means rain and sleet and hail instead of just the white fluffy stuff. How lovely. Someday the sun will shine again. Birds will chirp. The snow will melt and fade into memory. Flowers will blossom. Deer and rabbits will prance through the forest and my dogs will give them merry chase.

Fair maidens will sing, perched on high balconies.

How To Solve Today’s Wordle

The Hint: Not wimpy.

The Clue: This word ends with two vowels.

The Answer:

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Well, I feel pretty good about this Wordle even though I once again tied Wordle Bot. I feel like we’re constantly tying these days. It’s weird. In a rivalry like this, one of us should be winning more. This isn’t soccer. Sheesh.

In any case, my opening word was pretty decent even if crate only got me a ‘T’ in yellow. It eliminated the ‘A’ and the ‘E’ and led me to my second guess, touch, which I realize now wasn’t the smartest since I re-used the grey ‘C.’ I actually didn’t notice that at the time and just wanted a word that A) repositioned the ‘T’ and B) got me two more vowels. Touch was the first thing I came up with, though if I’d just been a little bit smarter I would have changed it to tough the moment I realized the ‘C’ was already spoken for.

Alas, I got this one in three and only get 1 point. Had I gotten it in two I would have gotten 2 points for that and 1 more for beating the Bot. Oh well!

I tried asking ChatGPT to tell me the etymology of the word tough but the service was ‘at capacity’ so I did my own research:

The word ‘tough’ originated from the Old English word ‘toh’ which means “strong and firm in texture, tenacious, sticky’ which comes from the proto-Germanic word tanhu or—depending on where you look—tege (Middle Low German), taey (Middle Dutch), taai (Dutch), zach (Old High German) and so forth. Rough emerged as another spelling of essentially the same word, though the two have diverged in meaning over time.

From as far back as the year 1200 CE tough was used to mean ‘strong’ or ‘powerful’ and that didn’t really change, though variations like ‘difficult to chew’ emerged in the intervening centuries. Phrases like tough luck and tough guy appeared in the early 20th century.

I used Midjourney v5 with the prompt ‘tough’ in it and this is what it sent back:

I added some prompts like ‘a tough barbarian D&D woman’ since I just watched—and reviewed—the excellent new Dungeons & Dragons movie:

Here’s ‘tough luck’:

I guess the word ‘luck’ really conjures the ‘luck of the Irish’ for the AI.

And finally, ‘tough guy’:

Play Competitive Wordle Against Me!

I’ve been playing a cutthroat game of PvP Wordle against my nemesis Wordle But. Now you should play against me! I can be your nemesis! (And your helpful Wordle guide, of course).

Here are the rules:

• 1 point for getting the Wordle in 3 guesses.
• 2 points for getting it in 2 guesses.
• 3 points for getting it in 1 guess.
• 1 point for beating Erik
• 0 points for getting it in 4 guesses.
• -1 point for getting it in 5 guesses.
• -2 points for getting it in 6 guesses.
• -3 points for losing.
• -1 point for losing to Erik

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