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This month’s featured artist is Simone Noronha. You can read more about her here.
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Wordle 675 5/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 CRANE
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ STREP
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 BOWER
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 GOFER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 JOKER
I was hoping that my turn to share my Wordle game with the world would be on a 3/6 day, or even a brilliant 2/6 guess. Alas, I fell into an abyss where there were many answers with the same green letters and nothing to do but grope around blindly, guessing among the choices like an IDIOT, a KNAVE or, dare I say, a JOKER?
It started off well enough. My usual opening word is CRANE. I like the balance of vowels and consonants, and I have a great backup word if it comes up all gray: SLOTH, which would get me to try several of the Wheel of Fortune favorites: R, S, T, L, N and E.
Since CRANE came back with yellow squares for the R and E, I had no need for SLOTH. I play on hard mode, so I have to use what I know. I went with STREP, which is amazingly not something anyone in my house has at the time of writing.
This led me to reluctantly conclude it was an “-ER” word. This construction feels like a trap because so many words have versions that end in -ER, like OLDER and WISER, which I am now that I have finished this puzzle.
BOWER, I guessed. That one, at least, is not an altered word. This gave me the _O_ER construction. So many words here! This is where the idiocy kicked in. All I could think of over and over and over, like a senator’s aide marching back and forth all day with endless coffee refills, was GOFER. I had all the time in the world but, hopped up on leftover Easter Peeps and the pressure that the world would see me flailing while solving the puzzle, panic set in. “GOFER!” I blurted into the void.
Instantly my mind was flooded with options. HOMER! LOVER! MOVER! JOKER! Now I knew I could guess wrong again and again and end up telling the entire world that I got a wordlenope (or six wrong guesses, a fail).
By a stroke of luck, I went with JOKER next, feeling as if drawing that word when I had to write about it would have some cosmic truth to it. And … I got it in five! I can already feel WordleBot shaking its head because of my poor choices and lucky ending. It’s always my first stop after I play, to do a victory lap if I beat WordleBot’s score or to despair if I only get the answer right because of “luck.”
Today’s word is JOKER. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, it’s a noun describing someone who tells jokes.
Today’s Statistics
Today’s word is very challenging.
The word contains a common letter pattern with more than six possible answers. Getting the answer in six guesses is based on luck, not strategy.
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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