How to solve today’s Wordle.
We’ve arrived at the big day! The Ides of March are upon us, but unlike Caesar, we won’t have to count on Brutus and all the other conspirators, wielding knives, to bring down the Roman dictator.
Instead, we can celebrate Wordle #1000 on Friday 2XP with a special bonus: Today will be 3XP, so if you play Competitive Wordle, you can triple your points. How are the apples?
I’m very excited about reaching this milestone, even though it’s ultimately meaningless and requires me to type an extra digit every Wordle guide I post. But hey, we have to find meaning in these lives we lead. Not just to find it, but to make it ourselves. Make sense out of chaos.
On to Wordle!
How to solve today’s Wordle
The hint: The first track on Bastille’s first album “Bad Blood”.
The Clue: This Wordle begins with a vowel.
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The answer:
Today’s Wordle
Wordle analysis
Every day I check the Wordle Bot to see how I did. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here.
Well, I guessed Roman because it is the Ides of March apparently and Caesar it is too long. So is Emperor and so on. I considered March but I guessed it already, on April 1st and it was a Wordle-in-one guess.
Roman he messed up. I had a lone yellow ‘R’ and 268 other words to choose from. I guess I was feeling a little REM because stalk came to mind, and it turned out to be quite wonderful — there were only two words left: crawls and erupt and since I was in that ancient Roman mood-Pompeii was destroyed from a huge explosion back in the days of the Roman empire — I went with me erupt for the win. Huzzah!
Competitive Wordle Score
I feel really great about today because I beat the Bot on the 1000th Wordle, and all because I was thinking about ancient Rome, which is funny because there’s this meme that goes around about how men always think about ancient Rome all the time. Either way I get 1 point for guessing three and 1 point for beating the Bot. That’s 2 points x3 for 3XP Friday = 6 points. HUZZAH!!!
Today’s Wordle etymology
The word ‘erupte’ comes from the Latin word ‘erumpere’, which comes from ‘e-‘ (a variant of ‘ex-‘, meaning ‘out’) and ‘rumpere’ (meaning ‘to break’). So, ‘erumpere’ means ‘to break out’. This term has been used in English since the 17th century to describe the sudden and often violent release of energy or material such as lava and gases from a volcano, or more generally to describe any sudden outbreak or burst of activity. The transition of this word to English kept the essence of its Latin origin, referring to the sudden and dynamic release of something from a confined space.
