Today’s ‘Wordle’ #1235 Hints, Clues And Answer For Tuesday, November 5th

Looking for help with today's New York Times Wordle? Here are hints, clues and commentary to help you solve today's Wordle and sharpen your guessing game.

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How to solve today's Wordle. Looking for Monday’s Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here: My November cold continues into another chilly, though somewhat less wintry, day. I am the tissue industry’s biggest advocate at the moment.

I refrain from taking medicine as much as possible, but I think I’ve gone through two boxes of Kleenex. As such, I will keep this preamble brief, lest I sneeze all over my keyboard. Let’s solve today’s Wordle, shall we? How To Solve Today’s Wordle The Hint: Eight.



The Clue: This Wordle has a double letter. 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 .

A tricky Wordle today. My opening guess, SPOIL, left me with over 300 possible remaining solutions, and OVARY only slashed that to 11, though my instinct to put the ‘O’ out front was on point. OUNCE might have been better in that second guess than the third, but at least it left me with just one remaining word: OCTET for the win! Competitive Wordle Score I get -1 for guessing in four and somehow the Wordle Bot got this one in three (I think it cheats!) so I get -1 for that, continuing my losing streak with another -2.

Ouch. How To Play Competitive Wordle Today’s Wordle Etymology The word octet originates from the Latin word octo , meaning "eight." It first entered English in the 19th century via the French word octet , which referred to a group or set of eight, especially in music for an ensemble of eight performers.

Later, it was adopted in other contexts to signify any group of eight items, notably in computing to describe a set of eight bits. 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.

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