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This month’s featured artist is Simone Noronha. You can read more about her here.
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Wordle 674 3/6
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ARISE
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ PICKY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DITTO
The question of how to choose a starting word provokes a lot of debate in the Wordle community, but I’m proud to say I am the type of Wordle player who switches up my first guess. I find that choosing a different word each day makes for a surprising and gratifying game. Today, I selected ARISE for its variety of vowels and consonants.
That gave me nothing but an I in the incorrect spot and the knowledge that I might be working with some less common consonants. Today I’m hoping to play a game that runs on vibes instead of strategy, but I pick a word that does both. PICKY is a good word for how I’ve been feeling lately in a lot of different areas of my life, so I choose it. As a side benefit, it gets four unused letters out on the board.
I’m foiled again by the game. At least I can rely on the I in the second-letter spot. There isn’t a Y, so there must be an O somewhere. My patience is growing thin — as is the list of words that make sense to play at this point.
With just one green box, I can’t tell much about the contents of the word, but I tend to suspect that a word has a doubled letter in it when I’ve put down a variety of letters and I’m still lacking information. I also know it has an I and possibly an O. I think of DITTY, which doesn’t work because of the Y, and then land on DITTO.
Five stars for being inventive and pushing the limits of my intellect today. That’s exactly what I look for in a game of Wordle.
Today’s word is DITTO. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, it’s a noun meaning “the same (as something said or appearing above or before).”
Today’s Statistics
Today’s Wordle 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.
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.”
Wordle Wrap-Up
Here is a reminder of the answers last week.
Wordle 667 Monday, April 17: WHIFF
Wordle 668 Tuesday, April 18: HOUND
Wordle 669 Wednesday, April 19: THUMP
Wordle 670 Thursday, April 20: PLATE
Wordle 671 Friday, April 21: KAYAK
Wordle 672 Saturday, April 22: BROKE
Wordle 673 Sunday, April 23: UNZIP
Further Reading
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