What's the Wordle?!

yup.

 

I will say that one of the fake out clues in Connections today, which ended up being correct for the purple category, made me giggle.

 

Have fun with Wordle today folks!

 

I got 3 green letters with my third guess and stared at it for 5 minutes before I even came up with a fourth guess. Which was wrong. A few more minutes and I guessed it correctly on the fifth try (the Bot said there were only two solutions after my third guess). I have never once used that word and doubt I have heard it used more than a couple of times.

 

lucky that my letters really just forced me to throw random letters in after three tries. Finally solved in four, but yes - took a long time to solve.

 

Got it in four but I needed some help from a performance enhancing anagram generator. I actually had it narrowed down to one word without realizing but with my spelling, I’d never have gotten there.

 

Got it in five, but it took a minute. I used a throwaway guess on No. 4 that didn't help so I didn't want to use another one on the fifth.

 

Got it in four -- probably was helped by seeing this thread first and approaching with caution.

 

Connections sometimes pisses me off. Sometimes it makes me laugh, like one of today's answers. I imagine many puzzlers had to have one of the answers explained to them. WHAT????? Heck one of the categories isn't exactly something that might come to them - at least when I think of the puzzlers I hear doing the Will Shortz bit on Morning Edition.

 

Some cute phrasing of the clues in Connections today when you start playing, but I had zero idea of the purple category.

 

Yeah, that was some BS in the purple. Had to use the list of previous answers to solve the Wordle. I was certain one of the possibles was used and confirmed it - which is good because there were four possibles with just three guesses left.

 

Anyone else catch that two consecutive Wordle answers last week were Pearl and Jelly, or put another way "Pearl Jam"?