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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 Colin Laurel. You can read more about him here.
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Wordle 710 4/6
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 SOARE
⬜⬜🟨🟩⬜ FINED
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨 QUEEN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 KNEEL
Another day, another Wordle where I guess a word with a QU combination, believing myself to be so brilliant, only to watch the game pull the rug out from under me. At some point in the future, when QUEEN is the winning word, I’ll get the flowers I deserve. Or should I say FLORA?
I guessed SOARE because it was mentioned in an earlier Wordle Review and because of its supposed superiority as an opening guess. The word didn’t help me out much today, and with my second guess, I seemed to have forgotten the rule that plural nouns and verb forms in which a D or an ED is added to a three- or four-letter word are not on the answer list. The ensuing certainty I had that N and E were in the winning word gave me options, and as I guessed QUEEN I braced myself for a three-fer. No such luck. The Wordle gods responded by letting me know that I should always KNEEL before their prowess.
Today’s word is KNEEL, a verb. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, it means to rest on one’s knees.
Today’s word is moderately challenging because of uncertainty.
The word has a common letter pattern with five or six possible answers. Getting the word in six guesses requires strategic choices at every attempt.
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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Today’s Wordle Review: May 30, 2023 – The New York Times
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