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Today's ‘Wordle' #1484 Hints, Clues And Answer For Saturday, July 12th
How to solve today's Wordle.
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Not only is it Saturday, it's also the 14th anniversary of the publication of A Dance With Dragons, the fifth—and most recent—in George R.R. Martin's A Song Of Ice And Fire fantasy series. Fourteen years we've waited for The Winds Of Winter, and perhaps we will wait another fourteen before it sees the light of day.
It's also my son's fifteenth birthday. Happy birthday kiddo! He turned one when A Dance With Dragons came out, which made reading that book a little trickier in terms of time and energy. I still devoured it, of course. I didn't think my kids would be nearing adulthood before the next book came out. My daughter had just turned four at the time and now she's 18! Life comes at you fast.
Okay, enough rambling. Let's solve this Wordle!
How To Solve Today's Wordle
The Hint: Banishment.
The Clue: This Wordle begins and ends with the same letter.
Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming!
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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.
SHAME wasn't the best opening guess—what a shame!—but CLOUT slashed the 162 remaining words down to just 10. I went for BILGE because I could think of a few 'B' words, but this was just off the mark. Thankfully, only EXILE remained. Huzzah!
Today's Wordle Bot
0 points for the Bot and I thanks to guessing in four and tying. Our July totals remain:
Erik: -2 points
Wordle Bot: 8 points
The word "exile" comes from Latin exilium, meaning "banishment," from exul or exsul, meaning "a banished person." This is likely formed from ex- ("out") and a root meaning "to leap or move," though the exact second element is uncertain. It entered English via Old French exil.
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