Today’s Wordle Review

Welcome to The Wordle Review. Be warned: This article contains spoilers for today’s puzzle. Solve Wordle first, or scroll at your own risk.

This month’s featured artist is Simone Noronha. You can read more about her here.

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Wordle 673 6/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ SLATE
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ CHUNK
⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 FUNGI
🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ UNBID
🟩🟩🟨🟩⬜ UNPIN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 UNZIP

My kid is always pressuring me to start with “onset,” but kids ruin everything so I’m starting with trusty old SLATE (WordleBot likes that one). I strike out. So I shift to something with a CH and an N — CHUNK. I get a U and an N in the wrong spots. I wish it was “nunchuck.” LUNGS? No S and the Wordle gods rarely grant us a plural. I got it! BUNDT! I’m a cook. This is perfect. Except there’s no T.

FUNGI? I type it in with misplaced confidence, but the gods give me an I. (I’m supposed to be grateful?) OK. Un-something. UNDER, UNRIP, UNDIP, UNBID! UNBID.

I plug it in with the confidence of a gambler who knows 11 is gonna hit. And like most gamblers, I lose.

But I now know it starts with UN and that I is in the fourth slot.

UNPIN? OK. I’m just going to go for it. Anxiety is starting to outweigh my desire to solve the puzzle. Argh! Not it. But I do get a P.

Down to my last guess. Sweating it. My ego is demanding that I tell you I am rarely this awful at Wordle. I go for UNZIP and hit the jackpot.

I hate and love that it was so challenging for me. I mean, heading into past-tense territory seems a little unfair. But who said Wordle was fair? I’ll give it two stars because I really thought it should have been BUNDT.

Today’s word is UNZIP. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, it’s a verb meaning to open or unfasten with a zipper.

Today’s Statistics

Moderately challenging because of uncertainty, but strategy can help:

The word has a common letter pattern with five or six possible answers. Getting the answer in six attempts requires strategic choices at every guess.

Our Featured Artist

Simone Noronha is a South Asian illustrator and art director from Dubai who is based in New York. She enjoys weaving narratives and intricate details into her imagery with saturated palettes and the moody lighting that has become her signature. In an interview with Wired, she said, “I like to think of illustrative style as just our natural flaws shining through and doing the best with it.”

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