Today's ‘Wordle' #1399 Hints, Clues And Answer For Friday, April 18th
How to solve today's Wordle.
Looking for Thursday's Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here:
It's the last of the 1300 Wordles today. Tomorrow is Wordle #1400. A whole new era. It's also 2XP Friday today, so those of you playing Competitive Wordle against friends or family, or against your humble narrator or the Wordle Bot, should double your points, both good and bad. I've been taking a beating from the Bot this month, which is only fair after the trouncing I gave to it last month. Let's do this!
The Hint: A morbid tune.
The Clue: This Wordle ends with a vowel.
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Today's Wordle
Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here.
I use DRAIN from time to time as my opening salvo, and today I got lucky. Very lucky! Only four words remained, and I already had three boxes, though two of these were in yellow. DIRTY was the second-luckiest second guess I could have chosen, slashing my options down to just one: DIRGE for the win! Huzzah!
Today's Wordle Bot
I get 1 point for guessing in three and another point for beating the Bot. That's 2 x 2 for 2XP Friday for a total of 4 points. The Bot gets 0 for guessing in four and -1 for losing to me. Double that is -2 points. This narrows our April total to just:
Erik: 9 points
Wordle Bot: 10 points
As you can see, the Bot is still in the lead, but only just barely. And there's still almost two weeks left. This could go either way! I do love a close game . . . .
The word dirge comes from the Latin dirige, meaning 'direct' or 'guide.' It originates from the opening word of the Latin antiphon Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam ('Direct, O Lord, my God, my way in thy sight'), used in the Office for the Dead in medieval Christian liturgy. Over time, dirge came to mean a funeral song or lament.
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