Today’s Wordle #650 Hints, Clues And Answer For Friday, March 31st

Hey look, it’s the last day of March already! There will never be another March day in 2023 again. This is it. This is the end. Only nine months remain in the year. Soon, it’ll be summer.

I can live with that. This weekend is supposed to finally get warm (and by warm I mean highs in the low 50s’) and that means more melting. I still have way too much snow in my front and back yard, and I’m ready for spring to blossom forth and wrap us up in its warm embrace.

It’s Wordle Friday which means if you’re playing competitively you get double XP for any wins—or losses—you incur today. You can scroll to the bottom of this post for scoring rules.

In fifty days, we’ll be on Wordle #700—just three hundred short of Wordle #1,000, which will land in just under a year. Crazy to think about.

Alright, let’s do the last Wordle of March.

How To Solve Today’s Wordle

The Hint: All the things. All the places. All at once.

The Clue: This word has a double letter.

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 #650 Analysis

I thought of diary as an opening guess a while back but haven’t tried it out until now (unless I’m forgetting using it on a prior Wordle, which is entirely possible). I like it because it has two vowels plus the Y in the fifth spot, where it’s the most likely to be found. Such was the case today, with both the ‘R’ and ‘Y’ popping up green.

From here, I wanted to guess all new letters and hopefully get a vowel or two in green. I thought about guessing query which had both a ‘U’ and an ‘E’ but it would have left the green boxes in place and that felt limiting, so I came up with the first word I could think of with two vowels and none of the same letters as my first guess. I suppose I’ve been thinking about elections lately and votes seemed like a decent choice. Sure enough, I now had two yellow boxes and since I already knew where two letters went, I only had three boxes to choose from. The ‘V’ had to go in the second or third spot and with just a little juggling I pretty quickly realized that every was my only option (or at least the only one I could think of).

Sure enough, every was the answer! Huzzah!

Since we’re playing Double XP Friday, this is a pretty sweet win for me. I beat the Wordle Bot by one guess which gives me a point and I got it in three which gives me another point. Double that and I get 4 points for today’s Wordle. Not too shabby!

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 “every” comes from the Old English word “ǽfre-ǽlc,” which means “each of a group,” or “each taken separately.” The first part of the word, “ǽfre,” means “ever” or “always,” and the second part, “ǽlc,” means “each” or “every.”

Over time, the word “ǽfre-ǽlc” was shortened to “ǽlc,” and then to “everich” or “everilk” in Middle English. By the 14th century, the word had evolved to its modern spelling of “every.”

Interestingly, the word “every” has a close cognate in many other Germanic languages, such as German “jeder,” Dutch “ieder,” and Swedish “varje.”

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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