Wordle Today #484 Hint, Clues And Answer For Sunday, October 16th

Here in the mountains of Northern Arizona it has been both beautifully autumnal and rather drizzly, with a pall of grey rainclouds having moved in Saturday. Grey and yellow are the colors of the weekend:

This is the sort of weather that makes one want to sit by a window with a cup of hot coffee or tea and stare out into nothing, or curl up with a good book (or a puzzle or two) and a cozy blanket. Light a fire in the hearth, soup on the stove, bread in the oven. All the smells and flavors of Fall. Maybe a candle or two.

In other words, this is the perfect time of year—other than this damnable cold! I’m still hacking up a lung every few minutes and it’s been nearly a week. Sigh. Tis the season for all these things, I suppose.

Let’s Wordle, shall we?

Today’s Wordle Solution (Spoilers!)

The Hint: Just Shoot Me! David

The Clue: There are no repeat letters in this word.

The Answer:

I very rarely get Skill ratings in the 90’s for all my guesses, but today Wordle Bot was feeling generous. 94 Skill for my first guess—trial—96 for my second guess—shone—and 99 Skill for my third guess, which is also the correct answer—spade.

On the other hand, my luck was rather hit or miss. My first guess left me with 400 possible solutions—not great! But My second slashed that down to 5. My third guess was pretty lucky, but it was also the very first word I came up with—I didn’t even consider alternatives like sauce or space.

I got it in three, which ended up being a tie with Wordle Bot, even though he had three of the letters in green on his very first guess (which is still slate these days). So I’ll just give myself a pat on the back for starting out worse and rising to the occasion nevertheless. Huzzah!