Today's Wordle Review: April 25, 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 Simone Noronha. You can read more about it here.

★★

Word 675 5/6 *

⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 Crane
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ STREP
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 Chariot
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 Gopher
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Joker

I was hoping it would be my turn to share my Wordle game with the world on 3/6, or even a great guess 2/6. Sadly, I fell into an abyss where there were many answers with the same green letters and nothing to do but fumble, guessing among options like IDIOT, KNAVE, or, dare I say, JOKER?

It started well enough. My usual opening word is CRANE. I love the balance of vowels and consonants, and I have a great backup word if it appears grey: SLOTH, which will get me to try several of my Wheel of Fortune favorites: R, S, T, L, N, and E.

Since CRANE came back with yellow squares for R and E, I didn’t need to SLOTH. I play hard mode so I have to use what I know. I went with STREP, which surprisingly no one in my house had at the time of writing.

This led me to reluctantly conclude that it was the “-ER” word. This construct seems like a trap because many words have versions that end in -ER, like OLDER and WISER, and I’m now that I’ve finished this conundrum.

Bauer, you guessed it. This word, at least, is not a distorted word. This gave me an _O_ER construct. So many words here! This is where the folly began. All I could think of over and over again, like a senator’s aide walking back and forth all day with endless packets of coffee, was GOFER. I had all the time in the world, but, hopping on the leftover Easter and stressing that the world would see me falter while solving the mystery, panic set in. GOFER! I plunged into the void.

Immediately my mind was flooded with options. Homer! lovable! Moving! joker! I knew now that I could guess wrong over and over and end up telling the whole world that I had a wordlenope (or six wrong guesses, botched).

By a stroke of luck, I went with JOKER next, feeling as though drawing that word when I had to write about it would have some cosmic truth to it. And… I got it in five! I can already feel WordleBot shaking its head at my poor choices and the end of luck. It’s always my first stop after I play, to take a victory spin if I beat my WordleBot’s score or to despair if I only get the right answer because of “luck”.

The word of the day is Joker. According to Webster’s New World College DictionaryIt is a noun that describes someone who tells jokes.

Today’s stats

Word of the day is very difficult.

The word has a common letter pattern with more than six possible answers. Getting the answer in six guesses is based on luck, not strategy.

Our featured artist

Simone Noronha is a South Asian illustrator and art director based in Dubai and based in New York. She enjoys weaving narratives and intricate details into her photographs using the saturated color palettes and moody lighting that have become her signature. in Interview with WiredShe said, “I like to think of illustrative style as just our natural flaws that you shine through and try your best.”