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This month’s featured artist is Simone Noronha. You can read more about her here.
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Wordle 672 4/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ GIANT
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 SCOUR
⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩 PROBE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BROKE
It’s a proud parenting moment when you get your butt kicked at Wordle by an 11-year-old. One of the best parts of my tween having her own cellphone is that she can now play the game independently every day, no longer hovering over my shoulder offering guesses: “Mom, what about OCEAN? Do OCEAN.” Instead, she viciously guards her screen to ensure no one is cheating off her work.
She consumes books with the zeal of Rory Gilmore, and I’m often surprised by the words she knows (FLORA) and her successful process-of-elimination guesses of words she’s never seen and can’t define (GUANO). She recently smoked me and my husband, getting QUALM in three guesses in just a few minutes — thanks to her commitment to AUDIO as a starting word — while my husband and I struggled for hours, limping to the end at six and five guesses, respectively.
The three of us jockey for lead position every day. On weekdays, we try to get the puzzle done before school, my daughter slurping scoops of cereal between guesses.
My starting words are always different. This time I pick GIANT because the stress of publicly failing at this silly puzzle feels massive. Five gray blocks stare back at me, laughing in my face.
I go with SCOUR next, trying to knock out some vowels and OU is an always-reliable combo. OK, green block, yellow block. I see you. We’re getting there.
I want to do SHORE next, but the S is already used up, and PHONE is also a no-go because of the N. PROBE works.
I’m usually pretty quick to my guesses. Once a workable word pops into my head, I drop it in and move on. But the moment I realize I’m about to win, I screech to a halt, wondering if I’m being tricked. It’s BROKE, right? Maybe? Maybe not. Is BRODE a word? What about BROME? Can I use BROME in a sentence? No? Does it matter? Is the Wordle editor taunting me right now? Ugh, just put it in. BROKE it is.
I watch my daughter’s and husband’s attempts, trying to keep my face placid. Do I look smug? I swallow my smile as it takes her five (AUDIO, STORM, BROTH, BROCK, BROKE) and my husband six. (“It’s a BRO guessing game and I hate this!” he grumbles.) It’s a BRO guessing game, indeed.
I allow myself a nearly imperceptible happy dance. Showboating is unbecoming because the victory is short-lived. There’s another puzzle tomorrow, and it will be a clean slate for each of us.
Today’s word is BROKE. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, it’s an adjective that describes having little or no money.
Today’s Statistics
Today’s word is moderately challenging because of uncertainty.
The word has a common letter pattern with five or six possible answers. Getting the word in six guesses requires strategic choices at every attempt.
Our Featured Artist
Simone Noronha is a South Asian illustrator and art director from Dubai who is based in New York. She enjoys weaving narratives and intricate details into her imagery with saturated palettes and the moody lighting that has become her signature. In an interview with Wired, she said, “I like to think of illustrative style as just our natural flaws shining through and doing the best with it.”
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