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It’s Wordle Wednesday once again, folks! This means you get an extra puzzle, riddle or challenge to help keep your wits razor sharp prior to solving today’s Wordle. Here’s today’s:
🏰 The Castle Party Puzzle
Four creatures — a unicorn, a dragon, an ogre, and a gnome — are on their way from the village of Bupkis to a royal party at Meriwether Castle. They each depart at different times, travel at different speeds, and face different challenges along the road.
Your task: Determine the exact order in which they arrive at the castle.
Clues:
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- The dragon is the fastest, but left the village last after a long nap.
- The unicorn left first, but was delayed helping a lost child.
- The gnome is the slowest, but took a shortcut through the forest.
- The ogre is faster than the gnome, slower than the unicorn, and was delayed arguing with a troll at a toll bridge.
- The creature who arrived second encountered no obstacle.
- The creature who arrived third did not take the shortcut.
- The creature who arrived first encountered an obstacle.
If you know the answer, let me know! I’ll post it in tomorrow’s guide. Now let’s solve this Wordle!
How To Solve Today’s Wordle
The Hint: Like a knee.
The Clue: This Wordle begins with a vowel.
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.
CRONE is a solid opening guess and today it served me well (it’s a slight variation on Wordle Bot’s favorite, CRANE, and today was definitely the better of the two). With 82 remaining possible solutions, I tried MOTEL for my second word. This didn’t give me any new green boxes, but I did slash the remaining number of solutions down to three. I came up with ELBOW and lucky for me, it was the Wordle!
Competitive Wordle Score
I get 1 point for guessing in three and 1 point for beating the Bot. The Bot gets 0 for guessing in four and -1 for losing to your humble narrator. This brings us to March running totals of . . . .
Erik: 25 points.
Wordle Bot: 6 points.
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 “elbow” comes from Old English “elnboga”, a compound of “eln” (meaning “ell,” an old unit of measure roughly equal to the length of the forearm) and “boga” (meaning “bend” or “bow”). So, “elnboga” literally means “bend of the ell”—the joint where the arm bends. Over time, this evolved through Middle English as “elbogh” or “elbauwe” to the modern “elbow.”
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