What's the Wordle?!

Streakbuster alert.

 

Yup — got very lucky with my 3rd guess which narrowed it to 2 words and I got it in 5. But a lot of people will not get it today. The bot say the average person is getting it in 4.9

 

Got it in 6. It was hard.

 

I also needed six. I got mad because I checked the bot after and it suggested a word after my fourth guess that would have let me use one fewer guess.

 

If you haven't played yet - don't look down but











- I've never seen them use three of the same letters in an answer before, that you don't know if a letter appears elsewhere after you get a "green" is brutal enough. Twice? And an answer without an R, S, T or L, N, or E? Madness!!!!

 

I was going to be so pissed if they repeated a letter today - had one guess left with two possible.

 

Being a daily player of Wordle has made me so much more observant of words - particularly good Wordle guesses that help me eliminate letters to get to the answer. Also love The NPR sunday puzzle. But found a word today that is a noun that means two entirely opposite things depending on context. The word is oversight. You mess up and forget something - it's an oversight. You are tasked with making sure an f-up doesn't happen - you are in charge of oversight. Glad I didn't have to learn this language second.

 

NY Times' Connections game forces me to think about language the same way. I love starting at the grid and going WTF and then finally I remember the different meanings for a word or even common phrases used with words to try to find matches.

 

I think it helps me learn that there is no "streak" to protect with Connections. I'll lose some days and think "whatever" other days "Huh, interesting."

 

It's funny, I get competitive with Connections. I hate not getting the patters and being able to solve it. But there was one the other day where I just allowed it to fail and said there was just no way. It was good.

 

Absolutely cracked myself up this morning with the Wordle. I am 12.

Spoiler: Solution

MOIST
SHART
SWEAT
SPLAT

 

Funky wordle today. Five. Thought the Connections was kind of funny the way they combined one "category" - I think you'll know what I'm talking about when you get it.