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This month’s featured artist is Simone Noronha. You can read more about her here.
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Wordle 653 5/6
⬜⬜⬜????⬜ STYLE
⬜????⬜⬜⬜ CLINK
⬜????????⬜⬜ BLOOP
????????????⬜???? FLOOR
???????????????????? FLORA
This is my second ever Wordle. Until this day, I have ignored the green and yellow squares on my Twitter timelines and group chats. But earlier today, after I completed Wordle number one, I thought I’d found a new daily hobby.
Then I did Wordle number two — this Wordle — and it zapped my enthusiasm completely. What is a FLORA? I was sure I had it when I submitted FLOOR, and the annoyance of that not being right, much less the word being FLORA — I imagine veteran Wordle players are familiar with this particular type of frustration. It pained me.
A part of me wants to go all in — Googling strategies about initial words and the likelihood of certain consonants — just to make sure this never happens again. But there’s another part that wants to give up, retiring from Wordle before the frustration sucks me in.
I also have an admission: I Googled “five letter words that start with FLOR.”
I’m not familiar with the rules. Is that allowed?
Today’s word is FLORA. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, it’s a noun referring to the defining plant life of a specific era or region.
Today’s Statistics
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Wordle Wrap-Up
Here is your reminder of the answers last week.
Wordle 646 Monday, March 27: GUANO
Wordle 647 Tuesday, March 28: HURRY
Wordle 648 Wednesday, March 29: BESET
Wordle 649 Thursday, March 30: BREAD
Wordle 650 Friday, March 31: EVERY
Wordle 651 Saturday, April 1: MARCH
Wordle 652 Sunday, April 2: STOCK
Our Featured Artist
Simone Noronha is New York-based South-Asian illustrator and art director hailing from Dubai. She enjoys weaving narratives and intricate details into her imagery with saturated palettes and the moody lighting that has become her signature. In an interview with WIRED, she said, “I like to think of illustrative style as just our natural flaws shining through and doing the best with it.”
Further Reading
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