Today's ‘Wordle' #1401 Hints, Clues And Answer For Sunday, April 20th
Looking for Saturday's Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here:
Happy Easter, dearest Wordlers! I hope you have a nice Sunday, whether or not you celebrate this particular holiday, and some good feasting and perhaps even something in the way of chocolate eggs. However you spend your Sunday, there's one thing we all have in common: We have to solve this Wordle!
The Hint: Useful for fixing pants or jackets, or video games.
The Clue: This Wordle has mostly consonants.
Okay, spoilers below!
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Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase
Pinpoint By Linkedin
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Queens By Linkedin
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Today's Wordle
Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here.
CLOUT was a very good opening guess today. Very lucky. I was left with just two yellow boxes, which didn't seem great, but later I'd learn I only had 26 remaining solutions. Not too shabby! I went with all new letters for my second guess and SPIRE cut that number down to just one: PATCH for the win! Huzzah!
Today's Wordle
I get 1 point for guessing in three and another for beating the Bot. The Bot gets 0 for guessing in four and -1 for losing to me. This turns the tide of battle for the first time this month, as I leap into the lead for April:
Erik: 11 points
Wordle Bot: 9 points
As you can see, the Bot is still in the lead, but only just barely. And there's still almost two weeks left. This could go either way! I do love a close game . . . .
The word patch comes from the late Middle English pacche, of uncertain origin. It may be related to the Anglo-French pieche (piece of cloth) or the Middle English pece (piece). It originally referred to a piece of material used to mend or cover something and later extended to various contexts, including software ("a patch to fix a bug").
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