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This month’s featured artist is Simone Noronha. You can read more about her here.
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Wordle 671 4/6
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 AGONY
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ YACHT
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ BAYOU
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 KAYAK
I love words, but I’m driven absolutely bonkers by the feeling of not finding exactly the right one (ugh, yes, even when it’s a game). I’m actually a bit nightmarish to be around when I’m playing Wordle — gruff, surly, petty — which is why I don’t play often, and why it’s never been a very social game for me. Don’t get me wrong; it’s not that I’m not having fun. I am. It’s just a very private, maddening, excruciating kind of fun!
It should come as no surprise that I started today’s game with AGONY. It gave me a little information, but knowing the Y was in the wrong place somehow turned out to be a real obstacle. My brain went completely blank and sluggish, showing me the same message on a loop: Sorry, there are no words in the English language that contain a Y but don’t end in a Y. Come back later.
It took me longer than I would like to admit to get past this and finally think of one: YACHT. The Y was turning out to be a real gremlin for me. Now I had to think of Y words that neither started nor ended in Y? Impossible!
A quick sidebar: I wrote a story about Disney and the foods of its parks recently and have been very tuned in to their intense fan sites. An upcoming attraction called Tiana’s Bayou Adventure has been getting a lot of attention, and I wonder if that’s why the word BAYOU started swaggering around, making its way to the front of my brain, ready to be picked.
I almost didn’t go with KAYAK next because it seemed too risky. If I was wrong betting on a word with 2 K’s and 2 A’s, I would be left with no new information for my next guess. Plus, I already felt incapable of coming up with more words with Y’s in them. It was like I had run out of words entirely and KAYAK was my last one. Luckily, the game ended there. Three stars!
Today’s word is KAYAK. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, it’s a noun referring to a canoe made of skins stretched over a frame or to any lightweight boat meant for riders to paddle while sitting upright.
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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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