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a day ago
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Today's Wordle #1515 Hints And Answer For Tuesday, August 12th
Another Tuesday, another Wordle to solve. I'm writing today's guide from a hotel. The nice thing about writing for a living — on top of the whole writing bit — is the ability to do it from almost anywhere. You can also play your daily Wordle from anywhere. Let's solve today's! Looking for yesterday's Wordle? Get some hints, clues and the answer right here. 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: SPITE (486 words remaining) The Hint: Drifter. The Clue: This Wordle has more consonants than vowels. Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming! . . . Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here. SPITE was a spiteful opening guess. 486 words remained. No yellow, no green. DOWRY wed me to one of each colored box, but a dozen words still hounded me. From here I considered words like HOUND, but went with COULD instead. Just two options were left at this point: NOMAD or GONAD. Lucky for me, NOMAD was the Wordle! Despite very similar words—my SPITE to Wordle Bot's SLATE, my DOWRY to its CORNY—the Wordle Bot got today's Wordle in three today. That's 1 point for guessing in three and 1 for beating me. I get 0 for guessing in four and -1 for losing to the Bot. Our August totals widen to: Erik: 2 points Wordle Bot: 7 points The word nomad comes from the Latin nomas, borrowed from Ancient Greek νομάς (nomás), meaning 'roaming' or 'wandering.' This, in turn, comes from νομός (nomós), 'pasture' or 'grazing land,' derived from νέμειν (némein), 'to pasture' or 'to graze.' Originally, it referred specifically to pastoral peoples who moved to find fresh grazing for their animals. Be sure to follow me for all your daily puzzle-solving guides, TV show and movie reviews and more here on this blog!
Forbes
2 days ago
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Today's Wordle #1514 Hints And Answer For Monday, August 11th
Looking for Sunday's Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here: How To Solve Today's Wordle Another work week has begun and off we go, back to ye olde grindstone. I have a short trip to preview some cool stuff, so I'll be traveling the next couple days, but that won't stop me from writing my daily Wordle column! Wordle is good anywhere, anytime, all the time. Let's solve today's. 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. FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder Today's Wordle Hints And Answer Wordle Bot's Starting Word: SLATE My Starting Word Today: FLAME (502 words remaining) The Hint: You won't find the north star here. The Clue: This Wordle has more consonants than vowels. Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming! . . . Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here. The Wordle Bot told me, after the fact, that FLAME is a strong opening guess. It was just very, very unlucky today. 502 words remained, and I had zero yellow or grey boxes. CHOIR slashed that number down to just 10. I hoped that TOUGH would be the answer, but it left me with two choices. I could only think of SOUTH. Lucky for me, that was the Wordle! I get -1 point for losing to the Bot and 0 for guessing in four. The Bot gets 1 point for guessing in three and 1 for beating me. Once again, the evil, nefarious Bot takes the lead in August: Erik: 3 points Wordle Bot: 5 points The word south comes from Old English sūþ, from Proto-Germanic sunþaz, meaning 'sunward' or 'toward the sun.' This is linked to the fact that in the Northern Hemisphere, the sun is mostly in the southern part of the sky. It ultimately derives from the Proto-Indo-European root sunn-, meaning 'sun.' Be sure to follow me for all your daily puzzle-solving guides, TV show and movie reviews and more here on this blog!
Forbes
30-07-2025
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Today's Wordle #1502 Hints And Answer For Wednesday, July 30th
How to solve today's Wordle. Looking for Tuesday's Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here: How To Solve Today's Wordle It's Wordle Wednesday, which means we have an extra challenge to bang out before getting to today's Wordle. Every Wednesday I give you fine Wordlers a riddle, brain-teaser or logic-puzzle to solve. Here's today's: If you throw me from the window, I will leave a grieving wife. Bring me back, but in the door, and you'll see someone giving life! What am I? I'll let you know the answer in tomorrow's Wordle guide. Now let's solve today's! FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder 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: STEAK (95 words left) The Hint: Test quality. The Clue: This Wordle has two double letters. Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming! . . . 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. STEAK was a good opener, leaving me with just 7 words. But man oh man did I botch things with CHOIR. I obviously had no idea that only 7 words remained so I just thought I might as well rule out some letters. CHOIR only slashed two words from my total! Ugh. USUAL cut that down to just one: ASSAY for the win! Today's Bot We flip the tables once again. The Bot gets two points this time for beating me and guessing in three. I lose one for losing to the Bot. Our new totals for July are: Erik: 9 points Wordle Bot: 10 points It all comes down to tomorrow's Wordle! This is the closest we've ever been! The word "assay" comes from the Old French assai or essai, meaning "trial" or "test," which itself comes from the Late Latin exagium, meaning "a weighing" or "a test." This derives from Latin ex- ("out") + agere ("to drive, do"). It's closely related to the word essay, which originally meant a trial or attempt. Over time, assay came to specifically refer to testing the content or quality of metal or ore.. Be sure to follow me for all your daily puzzle-solving guides, TV show and movie reviews and more here on this blog!
Forbes
14-05-2025
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Today's ‘Wordle' #1426 Hints, Clues And Answer For Thursday, May 15th
How to solve today's Wordle. Looking for Wednesday's Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here: Since it's Thor's Day and yesterday was Odin's Day, I owe all you dear Wordlers a solution to the Wordle Wednesday riddle I handed out yesterday. This was a bit of a lateral thinking puzzle: A husband and wife are driving down a road one night when the car runs out of gas. The man leaves his wife in the car and hurries to a gas station down the road. He leaves the doors locked. When he returns, the doors are still locked but his wife is dead and there's a stranger in the car. What happened? The answer: The woman was pregnant. When the man went for help, she died giving birth and the man returned to find her dead and their child—the stranger—in the car. Grim, I know. At least I didn't post it on Mother's Day! Let's solve this Wordle. The Hint: Excited. The Clue: This Wordle has a more vowels than consonants. Okay, spoilers below! . . . 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. I started out quite terribly today with FLITE, leaving me with a whopping 412 remaining solutions and one lonely yellow box. SHEAR cut that down to 26 and gave me another yellow and one green box. I figured I really needed to get the 'E' into green and picked EAGER, which had two possible locations for the vowel. I was actually a bit shocked when it ended up being the Wordle! Huzzah! Today's Wordle Bot I made up for my big losses today, at least in part, getting 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 adjusts our May tally to: Erik: 15 points Wordle Bot: 7 points The word eager comes from Middle English eagre, meaning "keen" or "fierce," which was borrowed from Old French eigre. That, in turn, comes from Latin acer, meaning "sharp, keen, or spirited." So originally, eager conveyed intensity or sharpness of desire. Let me know how you fared with your Wordle today on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. Also be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow me here on this blog where I write about games, TV shows and movies when I'm not writing puzzle guides. Sign up for my newsletter for more reviews and commentary on entertainment and culture.
Forbes
03-05-2025
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NYT ‘Connections' Hints And Answers For Sunday, May 4th
Connections hints and answers are here. Credit: The New York Times Looking for Saturday's NYT Connections hints, clues and answers instead? You can find them here: Beginning this month, my colleague Paul Tassi and I are taking over the weekend desk for Connections guides from our colleague Kris Holt, who will still be handling weekday guides. I'm excited to expand my puzzling endeavors to this extra challenging, and sometimes incredibly frustrating, game. I'll also have to come up with a nickname for you Connections puzzle-solvers. I call my Wordle players Wordlers and my Strands players some version of Strandistarians or Strandistas (etc). Maybe Connectioneers will suffice (as in Musketeers) unless I come up with something better. Today is May the 4th, which is Star Wars Day (because May the 4th be with you) and today's Connections has some words that just might be from a galaxy far, far way. Let's get right to it! You can skip the next section and jump right to today's hints if you already know how to play. Connections is the second-most popular NYT Games puzzle game outside of the main crossword itself, and an extremely fun, free offering that will get your brain moving every day. Play it right here. The goal is to take a group of 16 words and find links between four pairs of four of them. They could be specific categories of terms, or they could be little world puzzles where words may come before or after them you need to figure out. And they get more complicated from there. There is only one set of right answers for this, and you only get a certain number of tries so you can't just spam around until you find something. There are difficulty tiers coded by color, which will usually go from yellow, blue/green to purple as difficulty increases, so know that going in and when you start linking them together. You pick the four words you think are linked and either you will get a solve and a lit up row that shows you how you were connected. If you're close, it will tell you that you're one away. Again, four mistakes you lose, but if you want to know the answers without failing, either come here, or delete your web cookies and try again. If you want to play more puzzles, you can get an NYT Games subscription to access the full archives of all past puzzles. These are the hints that are laid out on the puzzle board itself, but after that, we will get into spoiler territory with some hints and eventually the answers. Connections May 4th Credit: NYT Today's Bonus Clue: You'll notice some words that call to mind Star Wars in this grid (maybe calling to mind a Sith lord, a smuggler, a Wookiee and a bounty hunter). They are a trap. Do not lump them together! Alright, the full spoilers follow here as we get into what the groups are today: FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder The full-on answers are below for each group, finally inserting the four words in each category. Spoilers follow if you do not want to get this far. The Connections answers are: I actually got this one pretty quickly today, mostly because I knew that the Star Wars words – DARTH, SOLO, BOBA and CHEWY – had to be a red herring. Once I spotted BOBA I just looked for other Boba Tea words and found SUGAR, MILK and TEA pretty quickly. That took care of those. After this, I tried to think of words with multiple meanings. NOODLE has several different meanings and as soon as I imagined noodling on a guitar, I realized that SOLO would work . . . and JAM and SHRED. Sure enough, the guitar player in me figured this one out. The purples took a bit longer, but I basically just took four words that seemed a bit off, not really fitting in with anything else, and grouped those. DARTH, GENUS, CARS and BLUTO? I didn't know how they fit together but I knew they were different from the rest of the words. Sure enough, these were actually planets – Pluto, Mars, Earth and Venus – and this left me with only yellows. Not too shabby! According to Connections Bot, this was trickier than recent connections, at 4/5 Difficulty. Here's the stats: Connections Bot Screenshot: Erik Kain How did you do on today's Connections? Let me know on Twitter, Instagram, Bluesky or Facebook. Also be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow me here on this blog. Sign up for my newsletter for more reviews and commentary on entertainment and culture.
