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This month’s featured artist is Mark Pernice. You can read more about him here.

★★★★★

????⬜⬜⬜⬜ ADIEU
????????⬜⬜???? MANOR
???????????????????? MARCH

Wordle 651 3/6

I know that some of the best Wordle players look down on ADIEU as a starter word. (Some of my own family members do!) But I like it. I prefer to solve the vowels first. It feels more manageable given that there are so many more consonants. And my dad was a high school French teacher, so I enjoy adding a little French to my mornings.

After starting with ADIEU, I often try a second word that includes an O along with a couple common consonants, like R, S or T. If I have discovered only one vowel after the second guess, I frequently include Y in the third.

I play Wordle in the midmorning as a quick break from work. I don’t worry much about minimizing the number of guesses I need. I care almost as much about minimizing the amount of time I need to solve the puzzle. But I do usually add one restriction to make it harder: I guess only those words that could be a solution to the puzzle.

When it came time to make my second guess on today’s puzzle, I was slightly stumped. I couldn’t quickly think of a second word that included both A and O as well as more than one of the letters R, S or T. Instead, I went with MANOR. When it proved to be a fairly lucky guess, I next tried to think of words that begin with MAR. Normally, I’d turn toward Y at this point, but MARCH popped into my head, and my good fortune continued. That’s one of the reasons to guess words that can be solutions: Sometimes, you get very lucky.

I give this Wordle five stars: I had fun with the puzzle and, as a bonus, it reminded me of John Lewis’s wonderful graphic memoir of the same name.

Today’s word is MARCH. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, it’s a verb that means to walk with steady, regular strides.

Today’s Statistics

Moderately challenging because of uncertainty, but strategy can help:

The word contains a common letter pattern with five or six possible answers. Getting the answer in six guesses requires strategic choices at every attempt.

Our Featured Artist

Mark Pernice is an award-winning illustrator, art director and designer. He runs the multidisciplinary design studio OOO, alongside his creative directing partner, Elana Schlenker. Mr. Pernice injects his personality and style into brand illustrations using a variety of details, textures and messages. “I’m not that interested in making obvious pictorial illustration, and I don’t want to shoehorn in overused visual iconography unless there’s a bit of a fun twist or mystery,” he said in an interview with It’s Nice That.

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