How to solve today's Wordle.
You’ll have to forgive my brief preamble today. It is, after all, yet another momentous occasion: My birthday!
I am 42-years-old today. This is a special number. In Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, the supercomputer Deep Thought is asked to compute the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything. After 7.5 million years, the answer it gives is: “42”.
So this year my birthday is also the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe and Everything! Huzzah!
Okay, let’s do this Wordle!
The Hint: Chilly.
The Clue: This word has far more consonants than vowels.
The Answer:
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Today's Wordle
Frost!
Such a cold word for summer, it almost gives me chills. Truly, winter is coming. My opening guess—alive, because it’s my birthday—was also a bad one. Like an error code, I had 404 words remaining. With five grey boxes, I next guessed mourn, a suitably dour word for such a miss on my first guess. This was better, slashing that number down to just 21.
I thought I’d flip the ‘R’ to the ‘O’ spot next, and try the ‘O’ out in the middle and for whatever reason froth came to mind. I briefly considered broth but decided froth was more fun. It was also a much luckier guess, reducing the number of possible solutions down to just one—and an obvious one at that. Frost for the win!
Today’s Score: An unfortunate four guesses today. I get zero points for guessing in four and -1 point for losing to the Wordle Bot, who guessed in 3, for a grand total of -1 points. Boo!
The word "frost" derives from the Old English word "forst" or "frost," which can be traced back to the Proto-Germanic word "*frustaz." This Proto-Germanic term is related to the Old High German word "fruos," Old Norse word "frostr," and Old Saxon word "frust." All of these words have a common ancestor in the Proto-Indo-European root "*preus-" or "*preud-," which means "to freeze" or "to burn."
It's interesting to note that the word "frost" shares its linguistic root with the word "freeze," as they both stem from the same Proto-Indo-European root. Over time, the word "frost" came to specifically refer to the white, crystalline ice that forms on surfaces when the temperature drops below freezing, whereas "freeze" generally refers to the act of solidifying or turning into ice due to cold temperatures.
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