Today’s ‘Wordle’ Answer #300: Friday, April 15th Solution

Well today is an auspicious occasion indeed! Friday, April 15th’s Wordle is the 300th so far. There are still many hundreds to go before The New York Times has to update its answer list (my hope is they move on to six-letter words).

Wordle #200 dropped on January 5th. That word was tiger which is a pretty great word, and informed my first guess today (see below). The 400th Wordle drops on July 23rd, smackdab in the middle of summer. But the 500th word is extra, extra special. It goes live on the spookiest day of the year, October 31st. You know you have to guess ghost on Halloween! Or witch!

In any case, let’s take a look at today’s Wordle answer and hint, shall we?

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Today’s Wordle #300 Answer & Hint

If you’re not careful, folks, you might get spoiled. I know it seems obvious that in a post about today’s Wordle there might be spoilers, but I’m warning you just to be safe. Better safe than sorry! First, a hint:

Shirley & Company, 1975

The answer:

Shame!

So not a terribly tough word, but definitely one of those words that makes me appreciate language. This word conveys something so human with such a wide range of emotional complexity attached to it. It’s not exactly remorse, not merely feeling bad, it runs deeper and can stem from things you’re not even guilty of.

In any case, my opening word, bears, was me just trying to think of a good predatorial word thanks to #200 being tiger. I knew it wouldn’t be right, but it had a lot of common letters and that paid off, with three correct though only one in the right spote.

No trouble there, I figured the ‘S’ would start the word and the ‘E’ would finish it, given the middle-placement of the ‘A’ and stake confirmed that. Shale got me the ‘H’ and left me with a bit of a conundrum. Lots of options for sha_e though at least I’d now ruled out ‘L’ and ‘R’ from the list. It could still have been shade or shape or a number of others but I went with shame and got lucky.

It’s not often shame gets you lucky, so I’ll take it!

Happy Friday, you wonderful Wordlers! Have a great day and a fantabulous weekend!

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