Gaming Today’s Wordle #1857 Hints And Answer For Monday, July 20 By Erik Kain ,
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How to solve today's Wordle. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Looking for help with today’s Wordle? Look no further. An abundance of hints, clues and other helpful items await, not to mention a bonus Custom Wordle and plenty more.
Goodness gracious it’s Monday already and I’ve been going going going without a moment’s rest all weekend long and now into the work week (though the whole week is the work week for me. What is this “weekend” people talk about? What are “days off”? Pshaw!) Alright, let’s knock out this Wordle and take a nap.
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Now that we can create our own custom Wordles, I’m including a bonus Wordle with each daily Wordle guide. These can be 4 to 7 letters long. Hopefully this is a fun extra challenge. Click the link below to play the Wordle I hand-crafted for you.
Today’s Bonus Custom Wordle is 7 letters long.
The hint : Something today’s official Wordle might find.
The clue: This Wordle begins and ends with vowels.
Wordle is a daily word puzzle game where your goal is to guess a hidden five-letter word in six tries or fewer. After each guess, the game gives feedback to help you get closer to the answer:
Use these clues to narrow down your guesses. Every day brings a new word, and everyone around the world is trying to solve the same puzzle. Some Wordlers also play Competitive Wordle against friends, family, the Wordle Bot or even against me, your humble narrator. See rules for Competitive Wordle toward the end of this post.
Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming!
Wordle Screenshot: Erik Kain Wordle Bot Analysis Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordle score with Wordle Bot right here .
SPATE was a bad opener. 383 words remained, though I didn’t know it. CHOIR, one of my go-to second guesses, only cut that down to 24, and I still had just one yellow and one green box. INFER wasn’t very good either, leaving me with 12 words. Only, finally, lady luck was on my side. I dove headlong into my fourth guess and DIVER ended up being the Wordle! Huzzah!
Today's Wordle Screenshot: Erik Kain I get 0 points for guessing in four and -1 for losing to the Bot. The Bot gets 1 point for guessing in three and 1 for beating me. Our July totals widen once again:
“Diver” comes from the verb dive , which likely developed from Old English dūfan , meaning “to sink, plunge, or dip.” The suffix -er means “one who,” so a diver is literally “one who dives.”
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