Today's Wordle Review: April 1, 2023

Welcome to The Wordle Review. Be warned: This article contains spoilers for the puzzle of the day. Wordle solution firstor scroll at your own risk.

This month’s featured artist is Mark Bernice. You can read more about it here.

★★★★★

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ADIEU
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 Manor
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 March

World 651 3/6

I know that some of the best wordle players view ADIEU as a starting word. (Some of my family members do!) But I love it. Better solve the vowels first. It sounds more manageable because there are more consonants. And my dad was a high school French teacher, so I enjoy adding a little French to my mornings.

After starting the ADIEUAnd I often try to use a second word that includes an O along with a couple of common consonants, like R, S, or T. If I spot one vowel after the second guess, I usually include the Y in the third.

I play Wordle in the middle of the morning as a quick getaway from work. I don’t worry too much about cutting down on the number of guesses I need. I care a lot about minimizing the amount of time I need to solve a puzzle. But I usually add one constraint to make it more difficult: I guess only those words that can be the solution to the puzzle.

When it came time to submit my second guess for today’s puzzle, I was a little puzzled. I couldn’t quickly think of a second word that included both an A and an O plus more than one of the letters R, S, or T. Instead, I went with MANOR. When it proved to be a rather lucky guess, I then tried to think of words beginning with MAR. Normally, I’d turn toward the Y at this point, but March It popped into my head, and my good luck continued. This is one of the reasons for guessing words that could be solutions: Sometimes, you get very lucky.

I give Wordle five stars: I enjoyed the puzzle, and as a bonus, it reminded me of John Lewis’s wonderful graphic memoir of the same name.

The word of the day is March. According to Webster’s New World College DictionaryIt is a verb that means to walk with steady, regular steps.

Today’s stats

Moderately challenging due to uncertainty, but the strategy can help:

The word has a common letter pattern with five or six possible answers. Getting the answer in six guesses requires strategic choices on each attempt.

Our featured artist

Mark Bernice is an award-winning illustrator, art director, and designer. He runs the multidisciplinary design studio OOO, along with his creative director partner, Elana Schlenker. Mr. Bernice injects his personality and style into his trademark illustrations using a variety of details, textures, and messages. he said in an interview with That’s nice.