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Forbes
2 days ago
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Today's ‘Wordle' #1461 Hints, Clues And Answer For Thursday, June 19th
How to solve today's Wordle. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Looking for Tuesday's Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here: It's Thor's Day, which means that I give you the answer to yesterday's Wordle Wednesday riddle before we dive into our Wordle guide. Here was the riddle: A viking and a dragon live together on an island in the middle of the sea. On the island there are five pools of magical water. Each pool is higher up the mountainside than the last, and the fifth and highest pool can only be reached by the dragon. Drinking from a pool poisons the drinker, but drinking from the next pool higher up immediately cures the poison. After many years on the island, the two grow tired of one another and agree on a challenge. Each will bring a chalice filled with water for the other to drink. They are allowed to refill their chalice from one of the pools afterwards. On the day of the challenge, both the viking and the dragon drink. The dragon then rushes to the highest pool and drinks deeply. Moments later, the beast drops dead. The viking lives alone on the island. How is this possible? The answer: The viking drank from the first pool before showing up to the challenge. He filled the chalice he was giving to the dragon with seawater. Once they both had downed their challices, the dragon rushed to the top pool and drank what ended up being a poisonous draft. The viking didn't drink again — the dragon's chalice healed his poison instead of killing him. Now, it's Wordle time! The Hint: A rare or curious object. The Clue: This Wordle has more vowels than consonants. Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming! . . . Today's Wordle Credit: Erik Kain Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here. CREAM was a good starting guess, leaving me with just 15 answers. I decided I'd try to move the yellow 'R' and guess all new letters for the rest instead of guessing the answer on the second guess. HORNY — I know, what can I say, it was the best word I could come up with — did the trick, leaving me with just one remaining solution: CURIO for the win! Today's Wordle Bot Screenshot: Erik Kain The Bot and I each get 1 point for guessing in three and 0 for tying. This bumps our June totals to: Erik: 12 points Wordle Bot: 9 points FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder The word "curio" is a shortened form of "curiosity", dating to the mid-19th century. It comes from the Latincūriōsitās, meaning curiousness or inquisitiveness. In English, "curio" came to mean a small, interesting, or unusual object—typically one collected for its rarity or charm. Let me know how you fared with your Wordle today on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. Also be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow me here on this blog where I write about games, TV shows and movies when I'm not writing puzzle guides. Sign up for my newsletter for more reviews and commentary on entertainment and culture.
The Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
The 1% Club players struggle on very tough letters question – can you outsmart them?
THREE contestants were left stumped by a tricky letter riddle that whittled down the competition in its final stages. Host Lee Mack tasked the 10 remaining players with a tough challenge for the 15% question. 3 It read: "Which two words, that contain the same five letters as each other but in a different order, mean the same as the two words below? Fairly silent." The clock began to tick and the remaining players did their best to find the answer from within the recesses of their minds. The correct answer was "quite quiet". Contestant Jackie successfully got the answer right but told Lee that she was getting "less confident with every question". Sadly for her, she fell close to the final hurdle with the 5% question proving too much. For that question, the contestants were presented with a jumbled up clock face with the minute hand pointing at six, which was in the 12 position, and the small hand close to 10, which was was where nine is usually found. They were tasked with working out the time on the clock if the hands moved 30 minutes clockwise. The answer was 10 o'clock. Jackie was the sole casualty of the question and her exit paved the way for five contestants to have the opportunity to win a potential £97,000. All five men standing decided to gamble their £10k prize for a chance of winning more money and to become a member of the 1% Club. The question was: "What new word links the capitalised words below? My SON TED ate raw FOOD and got SICK, then went to BED with me by his SIDE." The answer was 'sea' which could be placed before each word to make a series of new words. No one got the answer right. The 1% Club's Lee Mack stunned as 60% question wipes out ZERO celebrities 3 The 1% Club's Most Difficult Questions The 1% Club sees 100 contestants try and make it to the 1% question and be in with a chance to win a share of the jackpot. Here are just some of the show's most difficult teasers. Players had to compare and contrast three images of butterflies then explain which of the butterflies were exactly the same on both sides. Find the image and answer here. Players were shown groups of six symbols then asked which were in the same order whether you read them from left to right or right to left. Find the image and answer here. Players were asked how many different combinations were there of displaying four digits on one hand. Find the answer here. Peter had recently found his old diary that he'd written in secret code but he couldn't remember how to decipher what he wrote. Players were asked to crack the code and find out what the bold word was. WH89 I GR1W UP I WA92 21 B8 A 5L1RI72. Find the image and answer here. Players were tasked with working out how many eyes they could see in an image, which was made up of letters, symbols and emojis. Find the image and the answer here. A 1% question was based on a grid of numbers going in ascending order from 1 to 49. Starting on 25, the middle square, SEEN took you to square 27. From there, NEW took you to 20. From there, which square would SEWN take you to? Find the image and the answer here. And finally, an easy one - What common food in bold has had its letters rearranged into alphabetical order? ABDER If you really don't know you can find the answer here.
Forbes
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Today's ‘Wordle' #1460 Hints, Clues And Answer For Wednesday, June 18th
How to solve today's Wordle. Looking for Tuesday's Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here: It's Wordle Wednesday again! This means we have an extra riddle to solve prior to tackling today's Wordle. Every Wednesday we do this, because life is just more fun with a little variety. Here's today's: A viking and a dragon live together on an island in the middle of the sea. On the island there are five pools of magical water. Each pool is higher up the mountainside than the last, and the fifth and highest pool can only be reached by the dragon. Drinking from a pool poisons the drinker, but drinking from the next pool higher up immediately cures the poison. After many years on the island, the two grow tired of one another and agree on a challenge. Each will bring a chalice filled with water for the other to drink. They are allowed to refill their chalice from one of the pools afterwards. On the day of the challenge, both the viking and the dragon drink. The dragon then rushes to the highest pool and drinks deeply. Moments later, the beast drops dead. The viking lives alone on the island. How is this possible? FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder If you know the answer, shoot me a message on Twitter, Instagram, Bluesky or Facebook. I'll post the solution tomorrow. Now let's solve this Wordle! The Hint: Chew on this. The Clue: This Wordle has far more consonants than vowels. Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming! . . . 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. STORE was a rough start, leaving me with 330 possible solutions. All new letters (obviously) with CHAIN cut that number down to just 5. But the five in question — or at least the ones I could think of — all ended in UNCH. LUNCH, PUNCH, HUNCH, MUNCH, etc. So I came up with a word that had as many of those letters as possible with PLUMB and that slashed the number down to just 1: MUNCH for the win. It meant I couldn't guess the answer on #3, but if I'd just started guessing randomly I might have missed this one entirely. Today's Wordle Bot We tied and both the Bot and I guessed in four, so zero points for the both of us, leaving our June total at: Erik: 11 points Wordle Bot: 8 points The word munch likely comes from Middle English mounchen, meaning "to chew," which is probably related to Middle Dutch monken or Old French monger ("to eat"). It's imitative in origin—mimicking the sound or action of chewing. First recorded use in English is around the late 14th century. Let me know how you fared with your Wordle today on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. Also be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow me here on this blog where I write about games, TV shows and movies when I'm not writing puzzle guides. Sign up for my newsletter for more reviews and commentary on entertainment and culture.
Forbes
03-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Today's ‘Wordle' #1446 Hints, Clues And Answer For Wednesday, June 4th
How to solve today's Wordle. Looking for Tuesday's Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here: It's Odin's Day again, which means it's Wordle Wednesday and I have a special riddle for you to solve before we get to taking a crack at the Wordle. I found this one in a cafe in Doune Village while traveling in Scotland. The nearby Doune Castle is the filming location for both Monty Python and the Holy Grail as well as Winterfell from Game Of Thrones. Here's the riddle: What's a bird but also a fruit but also a person? I'll post the answer in Thursday's Wordle guide. Let's solve today's! FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder The Hint: Stop at once. The Clue: This Wordle has a double letter in it. Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming! . . . 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'm frustrated because I had such a strong start but couldn't pull it off in three today. CRIME left me with just 26 words and SHOAL cut that number to three. I almost guessed CEASE on my third try but went with CAUSE because it had more letter diversity. Oh well! Today's Wordle Bot I think every day of the month so far, the Bot and I have traded wins, leaving us neck-and-neck for June. I get -1 today for guessing in four and losing to the Bot, while it gets 1 point for guessing in three and 1 for beating me. Our totals are once again a tie: Erik: 2 points Wordle Bot: 2 points The verb cease comes into English via Old French cesser 'to leave off, stop,' itself from Vulgar Latin *cessāre (a frequentative form) of Latin cedere 'to go, yield.' Over time, cesser became ceasen in Middle English before settling as cease in Modern English. Let me know how you fared with your Wordle today on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. Also be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow me here on this blog where I write about games, TV shows and movies when I'm not writing puzzle guides. Sign up for my newsletter for more reviews and commentary on entertainment and culture.
Forbes
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Today's ‘Wordle' #1439 Hints, Clues And Answer For Wednesday, May 28th
How to solve today's Wordle. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Looking for Tuesday's Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here: It's another lovely day for a Wordle, especially since it's Wordle Wednesday. Every Wednesday you don't just get a Wordle to solve, I also hand out a special challenge: A riddle or brain-teaser to solve before we get to solving the main attraction. Here's today's: A cowboy hung up his hat, tied a blindfold around his eyes, walked one hundred yards across a wide field and turned around, pulling the trigger of his rifle. The bullet went straight through he hat even though he couldn't see a thing. How did he do it? I'll post the answer in tomorrow's guide. If you come up with a solution, message me on Twitter, Instagram, Bluesky or Facebook. For now, we have a Wordle to solve! The Hint: Northerly bears. The Clue: This Wordle has more consonants than vowels. Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming! . . . Today's Wordle Credit: Erik Kain Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here. BRIDE wasn't the worst opener, but far from the best. With 191 words remaining and just one yellow box, I decided to look for a word with two new vowels and I settled on O and A. For whatever reason, I had a hard time coming up with anything and eventually settled on VALOR. This worked out pretty well, slashing my remaining words down to just three. I could think of MOLAR, SOLAR and POLAR and I was pretty sure the first two had already been Wordles in the past. So I went with POLAR and sure enough, that was the Wordle! Today's Wordle Bot Credit: Erik Kain I'm a little surprised the Bot didn't get this in three also, but I'll take the win. 1 point for guessing in three, 1 for beating the Bot. The Bot gets 0 for guessing in four and -1 for losing to me. We're now at a May tally of: Erik: 22 points Wordle Bot: 15 points FEATURED | Frase ByForbes™ Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase Pinpoint By Linkedin Guess The Category Queens By Linkedin Crown Each Region Crossclimb By Linkedin Unlock A Trivia Ladder "Polar" comes from Late Latin polaris ("of the pole"), from Latin polus ("pole"), from Greek polos ("axis" or "pivot"). Originally astronomical, it later referred to Earth's poles. Now, of course, we often think of polar bears when we hear the word, or at least I do. Let me know how you fared with your Wordle today on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook. Also be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow me here on this blog where I write about games, TV shows and movies when I'm not writing puzzle guides. Sign up for my newsletter for more reviews and commentary on entertainment and culture.
