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How To Solve Today’s Wordle
Yesterday was Wordle Wednesday and I gave you the following extra riddle to solve on top of the daily Wordle. Today, I’ll reveal the answer. This was the riddle:
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?
The answer is: The letter “N”. Take it out of WINDOW and you get WIDOW. Add it to DOOR and you get DONOR. Okay, Wordle time!
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: STORE (123 words remaining)
The Hint: Ruffles, lace.
The Clue: This Wordle has a double letter.
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.
STORE wasn’t terrible, leaving me with 123 remaining solutions and one yellow box. BRAID cut that number down to a reasonable 12, but I still had no strong sense of where to go next. I was 99% sure the ‘I’ would go in the third box and I wanted to come up with something that used new letters to narrow things down, but finally just settled on GRILL. This left me with two words, but I didn’t think of KRILL and guessed FRILL. Lucky for me, that was the Wordle!
The Bot and I tied with four today, earning 0 points each on this final day of July. That leaves our totals at:
Erik: 9 points
Wordle Bot: 10 points
The Bot wins this month, though just barely. On Friday, we’ll start over at zero. Oh well.
- 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!
The word “frill” comes from the Middle Dutch vril or vrille, meaning a wrinkle or fold. It entered English in the 17th century to describe a pleated or ruffled edging on clothing. The term later expanded metaphorically to mean anything decorative or non-essential.
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