Today’s Wordle #647 Hints, Clues And Answer For Tuesday, March 28th

Well I have to say, yesterday’s Wordle was one of the most challenging words yet on the popular puzzle game. I’d say it’s probably the hardest word since parer, which had plenty of Wordlers stumped last year.

I can pretty easily gauge the difficulty of any given Wordle based on how much traffic I get on my guides, and yesterday’s was easily the biggest I’ve had in 2023, and bigger than many since last summer when the game was much more popular. I guess more people need to play as wizards in D&D and get their fireball on!

Today’s word isn’t quite as unique or challenging, but it’s still one that took me longer to solve, even though my guessing game really wasn’t that bad. Go figure!

Okay, let’s take a look . . . .

How To Solve Today’s Wordle

The Hint: An ingredient which, along with sulfur, is necessary for a fireball spell.

The Clue: There are more vowels than consonants in this word.

The Answer:

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Wordle Analysis

Every day when I’m done with my Wordle I go to the New York Times’ Wordle Bot website to run an analysis of my guessing game. That’s where I get the above screenshot each day. The Wordle Bot takes each guess and shows you how many words you’ve eliminated (or, rather, how many remain). It tallies your performance and offers up suggestions about what you could have done better. It helps you up your game, and I always play competitively against the Bot to see if I can outguess it. Okay, let’s take a look!

Wordle #646 Analysis

So as you can see up above, instead of just posting my guesses I posted Wordle Bot’s as well—mostly to illustrate that man and machine are slowly merging into one entity. While I refuse to guess slate as my opening word every day like Wordle Bot does, we still managed to guess all three final guesses the exact same! How bizarre is that? We also took the same number of guesses to solve this one.

I started with crape and that left me with 115 remaining possible solutions. Doily brought that down to just 8. Wordle Bot guessed slate and then crony. From here, we began walking the exact same path: murky which brought me down to just two possible choices: furry and hurry, and just like Wordle Bot I guessed the wrong one. Oh well, at least we tied!

That’s still a -1 score, however, as you get -1 for guessing in 5 and 0 for tying the Bot. Could be worse! (See scoring rules below).

ChatGPT’s Etymology Lesson

I asked the AI chat bot ChatGPT to explain the etymology of today’s word. Here’s the answer:

The word “hurry” originated in the late 16th century and is derived from the Middle English word “hurien,” which means to “move or proceed with haste.” The root of the word “hurry” is likely related to the Old Norse word “hurra,” meaning “to haste” or “to rush.”

It is also possible that “hurry” is related to the word “harrow,” an agricultural implement used to break up soil, as the verb “harrow” also means to move quickly or break up. However, this is less certain than the connection to Old Norse.

Overall, the word “hurry” has been used in English for centuries to describe quick, rushed, or hasty actions, and it remains a common word in modern usage.

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• 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