Today's Wordle #1524 Hints And Answer For Thursday, August 21st
Where can you finish a book without finishing a sentence?
The answer: Prison. (I'll allow jail, though you really serve sentences in prison; jail is more of a staging grounds).
Also there's a new NYT game called Pips which you should check out. I did a write-up about it which you can read here.
Okay, Wordle time!
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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:
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: SPINE (480 words remaining)
The Hint: Enthusiastic praise.
The Clue: This Wordle begins with a vowel.
Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming!
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Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here.
I wish I'd gone with SPITE instead of SPINE today. That would have narrowed my remaining words a lot more off the bat. SPINE left me with a whopping 480 solutions, and ALERT only cut that down to 9, though I did have three yellow boxes. The Wordle Bot did not approve of my next guess, TOWEL (suggesting MOTEL instead) but I only had one possible solution left: EXTOL for the win!
I get 0 points for guessing in four and -1 for losing to the Bot. The Bot gets 1 point for guessing in three and another for beating me. Our August totals widen once again:
Erik: 8 points
Wordle Bot: 15 points
Extol comes from Latin extollere 'to raise up, exalt, praise highly,' formed from ex- 'out, up' + tollere 'to lift, raise.' It entered Middle English via Old French (extoller) in the 14th century, keeping the sense of 'praise highly.'
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