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Since it’s Thor’s Day, we need to cast our minds back to yesterday—Wordle Wednesday—before we get to today’s Wordle. Every Wednesday I hand out an extra riddle, brain-teaser or logic puzzle for you fine Wordlers to solve, just to keep things a bit more exciting. Then on Thursday, I reveal the answer. This week’s riddle I borrowed from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which I went to on Broadway this past weekend.
Here was the riddle:
The first is the fourth, a disappointing mark
You’ll find it in parked but not in park.
The second is the less fair of those that walk on two legs.
Grubby, hairy a disease of the egg.
And the third is both a mountain to climb and a route to take.
A turn in the city, a glide through a lake.
The answer:
The first is the fourth, a disappointing mark
You’ll find it in parked but not in park.
The fourth letter of the alphabet is ‘D’ which is “a disappointing mark” in school. The riddle also includes both letters we’ll need in the second phrase, though out of order.
The second is the less fair of those that walk on two legs.
Grubby, hairy a disease of the egg.
Women are considered the “fairer sex” so the less fair, in this context, is ‘men’ though a “disease of the egg” is a little harsh, Hermione!
And the third is both a mountain to climb and a route to take.
A turn in the city, a glide through a lake.
This is describing tours though for the riddle you must think of it with a bit of phonetic flexibility.
D + MEN + TOURS = Dementors, the creepy flying wraiths that can suck your spirit right out of you unless you clap back with a patronus. In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, there were quite a few dementors, including some that flew out over the audience.
Okay, Wordle time!
How To Solve Today’s Wordle
The Hint: Open further, in a sense.
The Clue: This Wordle begins and ends with consonants.
Okay, spoilers below!
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The Answer:
Wordle Analysis
Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here.
Not too shabby! I thought of POWER because of The Rings Of Power and it did much better than I expected. I also feel lucky since I didn’t think a ‘W’ would show up and normally don’t use that in an opening salvo.
TWEED was another guess I wasn’t entirely faithful in, but I’d recently spoken with a guy wearing a nice tweed jacket in NYC and so I went with it. Lucky me! Only word word remained at this point: WIDEN for the win!
Competitive Wordle Score
I get 1 point for guessing in three and 0 for tying the Bot. I’ll take a point!
How To Play Competitive Wordle
- Guessing in 1 is worth 3 points; guessing in 2 is worth 2 points; guessing in 3 is worth 1 point; guessing in 4 is worth 0 points; guessing in 5 is -1 points; guessing in 6 is -2 points and missing the Wordle is -3 points.
- 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 each day.
- Fridays are 2XP, meaning you double your points—positive or negative.
- You can keep a running tally or just play day-by-day. Enjoy!
Today’s Wordle Etymology
The word widen comes from Middle English, derived from the Old English word wīdan, which means “to become wide” or “to make wide.” The root wīd in Old English refers to “wide” or “broad,” and it is related to similar words in other Germanic languages, such as Dutch wijd and German weit, both meaning “wide.”
The suffix -en was commonly added to adjectives in Old English and Middle English to form verbs, meaning “to make” or “to become” the quality of the adjective. In this case, wide (adjective) becomes widen (verb), meaning “to make something wider” or “to become wider.”
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