Today’s Wordle Review: May 13, 2023

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This month’s featured artist is Colin Laurel. You can read more about it here.

★★★★★

World 693 4/6

🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ Go
🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 The Tar
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ Arg
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Sour

I have a groundbreaking hypothesis about winning at Wordle, and since the Pulitzer Prizes have just been awarded, I thought I’d share it here. I hope someone will agree that my idea is great and recommend me next year.

The premise is as follows: Catharsis—the kind that involves angry howling at the wind—could help solve a Wordle puzzle.

I brought this up because I was stuck after my second attempt with this puzzle. My starting word, AROSE, gave me an A and an R, with the R in the wrong place.

My next guess was ALTAR, which got me nowhere specifically, though I remembered leaving A in first. Never say I don’t learn from my mistakes. The last time I wrote a review, the puzzle involved an S and I tried to make the answer in the plural, whereupon readers left a series of hilarious comments that I should know better. They had a point. R was still in the wrong place.

I stared intently at the puzzle on my screen. I ran through the alphabet to see what combinations might work. I had lunch and then came back to stare at my screen some more. I showed the riddle to my husband, who was now better at this game than me, although I knew him by it. scratch the head.

At this point, I was frustrated, so I let out a half-joking shriek of stress, and that’s when a particularly subversive thought popped into my head. I typed the word AARGH into the game and it was accepted. Not only that, but R is now in the right place.

My next guess was ACRID , which just so happened to be the correct answer. That can’t be a coincidence. I’m convinced AARGH did it, and I’ve already made room on my desk for Pulitzer.

The word of the day is ACRID, an adjective. according to Webster’s New World College DictionaryIt describes a sharp, bitter, or irritating taste or smell.

Today’s stats

The word of the day is somewhat tricky because of an unfamiliar letter pattern:

The word begins with a set of letters that analysts are unlikely to guess, but the answer can usually be found using elimination strategies.

Our featured artist

Colin Laurel is a black painter with a penchant for bold linear work and cheerful expression. He uses his identity as a lens through which to provide healing images to queer and marginalized communities, and has referred to his art as a form of self-care. Mr. Laurel has been influenced by vintage movie posters, production art, video games, music and mythology. With each piece, he hopes to convey humanity’s connection to the beauty of nature.

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