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How to solve today's Wordle. Looking for Wednesday’s Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here: TGI2XPF! Thank goodness it’s 2XP Friday! If you play Competitive Wordle either against me, the Wordle Bot or some other rival, today you get to test your mettle and double your points. That means doubling your winnings and your losses.
If you get 1 point today, it turns into 2 points. If you get -1 it turns into -2. The stakes are higher than ever! Let’s do this Wordle! How To Solve Today’s Wordle The Hint: Sometimes this goes with fire, other times with mirrors.
The Clue: This Wordle ends in a vowel. Okay, spoilers below! . .
. The Answer: Today's Wordle Wordle Analysis Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here .
Thank goodness I didn’t do as badly as I did yesterday ! In fact, today I feel rather proud of my guessing game. SPORE was just lucky. Three green boxes! Only nine words remained, but of course the problem was how to narrow that down.
I couldn’t just randomly guess another word with S_O_E—there were too many! I thought of as many as I could and tried to find a word with as many letters from these I could think of—and there it was, THINK. ‘T’ from STORE. ‘H’ from SHOVE.
‘T’ and ‘N’ from STONE. ‘T’ and ‘K’ from STOKE. Sure enough, this narrowed my choices down to just one remaining word: SMOKE for the win.
Huzzah! Competitive Wordle Score I get 1 point for guessing in three and another point for beating Wordle Bot, who took four tries today. That’s 2 points x 2 for 2XP Friday = 4 points for me! Huzzah again! (It might be fun to keep track of all these points, or to come up with a second mini-game in which we spend points we’ve earned playing Competitive Wordle. Perhaps I’ll come up with something).
How To Play Competitive Wordle Today’s Wordle Etymology The word smoke has its origins in Old English, where it was spelled smoca or smoc . This term referred to the visible vapor or gases that result from burning something. It is derived from the Proto-Germanic word smukan or smēkô , meaning "smoke" or "steam.
" This, in turn, traces back to the Proto-Indo-European root smug- , which means "to emit smoke" or "to smolder." The word is related to other Germanic languages as well, like Dutch smook and German Schmock , which also mean "smoke." These roots suggest that the word originally referred to the rising vapors produced by fire and gradually evolved into its modern form, smoke , in English.
The concept has remained quite stable over time, consistently describing the visible product of combustion. Be sure to check out my blog for my daily Wordle and Strands guides as well as all my other writing about TV shows, streaming guides, movie reviews, video game coverage and much more. Thanks for stopping by! Oh, and I’ve started a book-themed Instagram page that’s just getting off the ground if anyone wants to follow me there.
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