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This month’s featured artist is Simone Noronha. You can read more about her here.
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Wordle 667 4/6
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ADIEU
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ STICK
🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ FRILL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WHIFF
Forget four-letter words; who knew there were so many five letter words in the English language? It is MAGIC, CRAZY, SUPER. There are so many five-letter words that you can practically fall into all of them, like sinking into a DOWNY comforter of language and wrapping yourself in alphabetical combinations. It drives me NUTTY.
In fact, try writing a sentence without a five letter word. It’s harder than you MIGHT THINK. And once you START seeing them, you see them everywhere.
I have OFTEN felt the game-playing WORLD is divided between crossword puzzlers and Sudoku TYPES; between THOSE who love the ebb and flow of vocabulary and meaning, and those who rise to the challenge of strategy. I have always been firmly in the former camp, but Wordle has bridged the gap, which is MAYBE why I find it both annoying and addictive.
I generally SOLVE the puzzle in four TRIES, WHICH on one hand I like because it allows me to discover so many more five-letter WORDS — TANGO, which brings up MANGO, which makes me think of MELON because … FRUIT. But I also want to do it in three, or even two, because I am competitive. That doesn’t happen very OFTEN. It did not happen TODAY.
I started with ADIEU, which seems like a good beginning word because there are so many vowels, but often proves less than fruitful. That yielded only one letter, but at LEAST it was in the RIGHT PLACE. Then I went with STICK because I was trying to be strategic, but that only served to eliminate more letters, rather than add any winners. That seemed like karmic justice for picking a boring word, so next I tried FRILL in HONOR of my job as fashion critic. Ah! Now we were getting somewhere: one more letter, even if it was in the WRONG PLACE. Indeed, I solved it on my next try.
Today’s answer is kind of a fun word (try saying it 10 times fast), so I give this puzzle four out of five STARS.
Today’s word is WHIFF. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, it’s a noun meaning “a brief, passing odor carried in the air.”
Today’s Statistics
Today’s word is moderately challenging because of the unfamiliarity of its letter pattern.
The letter pattern is unique enough that the answer can usually be found using elimination strategies within six guesses, but the word has duplicated letters, making it tricky.
Wordle Wrap-Up
Here is a reminder of the answers last week.
Wordle 660 Monday, April 10: UNDER
Wordle 661 Tuesday, April 11: QUALM
Wordle 662 Wednesday, April 12: BORAX
Wordle 663 Thursday, April 13: CARAT
Wordle 664 Friday, April 14: THIEF
Wordle 665 Saturday, April 15: AGONY
Wordle 666 Sunday, April 16: DWELT
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.”
Further Reading
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