On Thursday, the New York Times revealed a new update to Wordle that allows subscribers to create their own Wordles. A fun twist? These can be 4 to 7 letters in length, and you can share them with anyone. While only subscribers can create their own Wordles, anyone can play them.
Before we get to today’s actual Wordle, I made a custom Wordle to share with you fine Wordlers. I may start doing this regularly, so you can get an extra Wordle when you come solve the daily puzzle. I’ll be curious what starting words people use for different length Wordles. You may think that I’m a dreamer, but REALIST might be a good one for 7-letter words.
Here is today’s bonus custom Wordle. It’s 7 letters long. The clue is “Something we all hope to achieve.”
Okay, onward we go. Let’s solve today’s official Wordle!
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How To Solve Today’s Wordle
How To Play Wordle
Wordle is a daily word puzzle game where your goal is to guess a hidden five-letter word in six tries or fewer. After each guess, the game gives feedback to help you get closer to the answer:
- Green: The letter is in the word and in the correct spot.
- Yellow: The letter is in the word, but in the wrong spot.
- Gray: The letter is not in the word at all.
Use these clues to narrow down your guesses. Every day brings a new word, and everyone around the world is trying to solve the same puzzle. Some Wordlers also play Competitive Wordle against friends, family, the Wordle Bot or even against me, your humble narrator. See rules for Competitive Wordle toward the end of this post.
Today’s Wordle Hints And Answer
- Wordle Bot’s Starting Word: SLATE
- My Starting Word Today: STALE (104 words remaining)
- The Hint: Grave danger.
- The Clue: This Wordle begins and ends with consonants.
Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming!
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The Answer:
Wordle Bot Analysis
Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordle score with Wordle Bot right here.
STALE was a decent opening guess, giving me two yellow boxes and leaving me with 104 remaining solutions. LINER slashed that number down to just two. I came up with RELIC and PERIL and I was 99% sure we’d had RELIC in the paste, so I chose PERIL. Thankfully, that was the Wordle!
Whenever I hear the word PERIL I think of the Sir Galahad the Pure scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Michael Palin’s chaste knight finds himself in a castle filled with attractive young women, and it all goes downhill from there.
Lancelot shows up to rescue Galahad and the following exchange ensues:
Sir Lancelot: We were in the nick of time. You were in great peril.
Sir Galahad: I don’t think I was.
Sir Lancelot: Yes, you were. You were in terrible peril.
Sir Galahad: Look, let me go back in there and face the peril.
Sir Lancelot: No, it’s too perilous.
Sir Galahad: Look, it’s my duty as a knight to sample as much peril as I can.
Sir Lancelot: No, we’ve got to find the Holy Grail. Come on.
Sir Galahad: Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?
Competitive Wordle Score
Another tie, but this time the Bot and I each get 1 point for guessing in three. Our November totals crawl forward:
Erik: 3 points
Wordle Bot: 3 points
How To Play Competitive Wordle
- Guessing in 1 is worth 3 points; guessing in 2 is worth 2 points; guessing in 3 is worth 1 point; guessing in 4 is worth 0 points; guessing in 5 is -1 points; guessing in 6 is -2 points and missing the Wordle is -3 points.
- If you beat your opponent you get 1 point. If you tie, you get 0 points. And if you lose to your opponent, you get -1 point. Add it up to get your score. Keep a daily running score or just play for a new score each day.
- Fridays are 2XP, meaning you double your points—positive or negative.
- You can keep a running tally or just play day-by-day. Enjoy!
Today’s Wordle Etymology
Peril comes from Old French peril (danger, risk), which in turn derives from Latin perīculum, meaning “trial, attempt, experiment, danger.” The Latin root per- means “to try or risk.” The sense of exposure to harm or loss has remained since antiquity.
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