Today’s Wordle Review

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This month’s featured artist is Colin Laurel. You can read more about him here.

Wordle 688 3/6

🟨⬜🟨🟨⬜ WHALE
🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 ALLOW
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AGLOW️

I am in some ways a creature of habit. I start my days with coffee and the crossword. I listen to songs on repeat. Try, I dare you, to stop me from enjoying a few frozen cherries dropped into a cup of plain yogurt before I go to bed.

When it comes to Wordle, though, I resist the prescriptive approach of settling on a routine opening word, be it ADIEU or RAISE or CRANE. Instead, I prefer to pluck a word from the ether that somehow relates to my day: something I’ve thought about, encountered or read. That way, each game is pinned to a particular moment in time and unfolds in its own unique way — even if it means that I occasionally employ a whale of an unstrategic opener.

Which brings me to today’s Wordle, brought to you by Kirk Douglas. Ever heard the guy sing “A Whale of a Tale” in the 1954 adaptation of “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”? Well, now you have. And if you’re anything like me, it’ll be rattling around in your head for a while.

Hence WHALE, which, to my surprise, yields three yellows. That’s about as good as it gets. Not many options from there, and ALLOW was the first to spring to mind. Then the winner comes into view: AGLOW.

WHALE, ALLOW, AGLOW — what a poetic progression. Five stars.

Today’s word is AGLOW, an adjective and an adverb. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, it means “in a glow” of either color or emotion.

Today’s Statistics

Today’s word is moderately challenging because of its unusual letter pattern.

The answer can usually be found using elimination strategies within six guesses, but the letter pattern is uncommon.

Wordle Wrap-Up

Wordle 681 Monday, May 1: RANGE

Wordle 682 Tuesday, May 2: SULKY

Wordle 683 Wednesday, May 3: HORDE

Wordle 684 Thursday, May 4: GUPPY

Wordle 685 Friday, May 5: BELOW

Wordle 686 Saturday, May 6: ANGER

Wordle 687 Sunday, May 7: GHOUL

Our Featured Artist

Colin Laurel is a Black illustrator with an affinity for bold line work and joyous expression. He uses his identity as a lens through which to provide healing imagery to queer and marginalized communities, and he has referred to his art as a form of self-care. Mr. Laurel is influenced by vintage movie posters, production art, video games, music and mythology. With each piece, he hopes to convey humanity’s relationship with the beauty of nature.

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