How to solve today’s Wordle.
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The weekend is over. This is unfortunate, but we have a three-day Memorial Day weekend coming up. Huzzah!
I had a super busy weekend working out and working around the house, doing yard work and cooking food and somehow still had time for D&D with my gaming group. I caught the show Sugar on Apple TV+ and started Dark matter, also on Apple TV+. I’m bad at all my reviews, but I’m hoping to catch up this week. I’ll tell you one thing: Getting back into shape is hard and leaves me super tired, but I think the more consistent I am the easier it will get. Saturday night I went to bed at 10pm and slept until 9am the next day. That’s how I’ve disappeared. . . .
You know what’s fun to do when you’re physically exhausted? Wordle. Let’s do it!
How to solve today’s Wordle
The hint: He’s not bad.
The Clue: This Wordle pairs nicely with Wordle Bot’s favorite opening word.
Okay, spoilers below!
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The answer:
Today’s Wordle
Wordle analysis
Every day I check the Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here.
Usually PLATE is a pretty good opener, but today it left me high and dry with 334 words to go. I had to choose CRANE, which has all but one of today’s letters!
CHOIR reduced that number to just 3 words and left me with one green and two yellow boxes. I honestly could only come up with one word, and luckily for me it was Wordle. MORE for the win! How nice!
Competitive Wordle Score
I get 1 point for guessing three, but immediately lose it to the Bot, who only managed to guess two. That dirty rotten swindler!
How to play Competitive Wordle
Guessing at 1 is worth 3 points. Guessing in 2 is worth 2 points. Guessing in 3 is worth 1 point. Guessing on 4 is worth 0 points. Guessing in 5 is -1 points. Guessing 6 is -2 marks and missing the Wordle is -3 marks.
If you beat your opponent you get 1 point. If you tie, you get 0 points. And if you lose to your opponent, you get -1 point. Add it up to get your score. Keep a daily running score or just play for a new score every day.
Today’s Wordle etymology
The word “prettier” is the comparative form of the adjective “nice”. To understand its etymology, we need to look at the history of the word “nice” itself:
- Middle English: The word “nice” comes from the Middle English word “nice”, which meant “silly” or “silly”.
- Old French: This Middle English word was borrowed from the Old French ‘nice’, which also meant ‘silly’ or ‘silly’.
- Latin: The Old French word comes from the Latin word ‘nescius’, meaning ‘ignore’ or ‘ignore’. “Nescius” comes from the Latin verb “nescire”, meaning “not to know” (from “ne-” meaning “not” and “scire” meaning “to know”).
Over time, the concept of “beautiful” has shifted significantly. In the late Middle Ages, it began to take on more positive connotations, evolving from meanings such as “timid”, “boisterous” and “great” to the modern sense of “pleasant”, “gentle” or “polite”.
The comparative form ‘nicer’ follows standard English grammar rules for forming comparative adjectives. Thus, “prettier” retains the evolved positive meaning of “beautiful” while denoting a higher degree of that quality.
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