It’s Wordle Wednesday, folks, and that means one thing and one thing only: It’s time to add a riddle, logic puzzle or brain teaser to your daily Wordle challenge.
Every Wednesday—except the times I forget!—I give out this extra challenge for a little extra brain exercise. Sometimes they’re super tough, sometimes they’re a little bit easier, but I hope it’s always fun. Let’s do today’s, shall we?
You are an adventurer in a strange land. For days you’ve been walking through a mysterious forest when you come to a fork in the road with a strange statue of a skeleton. You learned back in the last village that the two paths that lead from this statue lead to very different fates: One will finally lead you out of the magical forest and to your destination. The other will lead to certain death. There is no way to tell which is which. However, two goblins live in the hut beside the statue. These goblins know which path is which. One always tells the truth. The other always lies. You are able to ask them just one question before choosing your path. What do you ask them?
I’ll post the answer tomorrow. For now, let’s do this Wordle!
How To Solve Today’s Wordle
The Hint: Jack Reacher could be described this way.
The Clue: This Wordle ends with the same letter as yesterday’s Wordle.
The Answer:
Another rough day with another pretty tough word. Weirdly enough, I got that elusive ‘Y’ right off the bat, but RAINY wasn’t very lucky in any other way, leaving me with four grey boxes and 169 remaining solutions. From here, HOUSE only slashed that number to 37 and I was left with a yellow ‘U’ in the bargain.
MULCH cut out 30 more words and I had a sense of what the final word would look like, with three green boxes accounted for. Still, too many words remained to get lucky and BULLY was one stinkin’ letter off. BULKY for the win…on guess five!
Competitive Wordle Score
Just like yesterday, I guessed in five and Wordle Bot guessed in four. That’s -1 for each of those, for another grand total of -2. Drat and tarnation!
Today’s Wordle Etymology
The word “bulky” comes from the word “bulk,” which in turn has its origins in the Old Norse word “bulki.” This Old Norse term referred to a cargo or a ship’s load. Over time, the meaning of “bulk” evolved to refer to the mass or volume of something, particularly something large.
Therefore, “bulky” in English, which is an adjective derived from “bulk,” came to describe something that has large volume or mass, especially something unwieldy or cumbersome due to its size. The word has been used in English since at least the 17th century to describe physical largeness and the sense of taking up space.
