Today’s ‘Wordle’ Answer #235: Tuesday, February 9th Solution

Wednesday for Wordlers and today’s Wordle word of the day is a bit of a tricky one, or at least it had me stumped for a spell.

The viral word puzzle game offers up a single word to solve each day. You can go try to solve it yourself at the game’s official website.

Wordle isn’t available on the App Store or Google Play, and it’s ad-free and entirely free-to-play at the moment, though all that could theoretically change when it migrates to its new owner, The New York Times.

For Wordle newbies, I have a helpful Wordle explainer piece which goes over the rules and history of the fledgling-but-viral puzzle game. I also have a tips & tricks guide to help you get the right guesses.

The game is pretty straightforward, but it’s just tricky enough to keep things interesting.

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Today’s Wordle #235 Answer

Before we get to the answer . . . SPOILER WARNING! Don’t read any further if you don’t want hints or answers to today’s Wordle word of the day!

Okay, now for the hint: An important sense, even if it’s not one of the main five.

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And the answer is . . . .

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Kind of a roundabout way to arrive at the answer here. Oh well.

‘OPERA’ gave me very little to work with, and ‘ROOMY’ didn’t make matters much better. I had three correct letters but none of them were in the right spot and I floundered, uncertain how to arrange them.

I probably could have picked a better third guess—I knew that there was only one ‘O’ at this point!—but at least it got me the ‘O’ in a green box and I was pretty sure ‘R’ would finish things out.

My next guess was yet another screw-up, truth be told.

I’d basically settled on an idea at this point. The answer would probably end with ‘MOR’ and the only word I could think of that did that was ‘RUMOR’ and I spaced the fact that I’d already put the ‘R’ in the first spot back in my second guess. Clearly ‘RUMOR’ was going to be wrong.

Silver lining: I now had ‘UMOR’ and there just aren’t that many more letters to try out. I was going to guess ‘TUMOR’ if ‘HUMOR’ didn’t work, but it did! It’s not a tumor.

Thanks for reading, fellow Wordlers! Have a wonderful Wednesday!

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