Wordle Today #435 Answer, Hint And Clues Sunday August 28th Word Of The Day Guide

As I type this, it’s raining. It’s quite lovely, actually. The rain here has been almost daily. It’s one of the most amazing monsoons I’ve ever seen, with sunny mornings turning grey, long rolling thunder, gentle spray building to torrential downpours.

Flooding has been a problem. We had the big forest fires and they really changed the landscape of the flood zones. It even flooded on my street once, which has never happened. Other neighborhoods have had it far worse.

But we need the rain. We need snowpack even more, so hopefully this winter is white with the fluffy stuff. We shall see.

Pray for rain, pray for snow. Alright, let’s do this Wordle!

Today’s Wordle #435 Answer, Hint & Clue

Spoilers ahead! You’ve been warned!

The Hint: Bandage-adjacent.

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

The Answer:

Oof. That was close. Too close.

It’s crazy—lately I keep getting my best and worst opening guesses. Yesterday, my opening guess left me with just eleven remaining solutions. I got to 11 on guess #3 today.

My first guess, hoist, seemed like a good idea but 668 remaining solutions out of 2,309 is very possibly my worst yet.

Thankfully, crane brought that number down to 21, but then I just kept drawing blanks on what to use next, so I went with padre even knowing that the ‘R’ had been knocked out of play. I guess I got a little impatient.

From here, I started to think there must be more vowels than just two. I had both the ‘A’ and the ‘E’ in green, but they were kind of far apart and the only word I could think of was eagle, which wasn’t a bad guess by any means, narrowing my options down to just 3.

I guessed gauge because gauze didn’t even occur to me, to be quite honest (the other option at this point would have been gaffe which I also didn’t think of). With one guess left, I crossed my fingers, typed in gauze with no shortage of trepidation . . . and walked away with the win. Huzzah!