How to solve today’s Wordle.
Well, it’s finally here. Wordle #700! Important opportunity!
Number 7 is something special. For one thing, it’s the number of days in a week—every week, all year long, forever. Also:
- Prime number: 7 is a prime number. This means that it can only be divided by itself and the number 1.
- Religious meaning: In many customs and religions and various spiritual and mystical traditions, the number 7 has a sacred or symbolic meaning. In Christianity, it is associated with the seventh day when God finished creating heaven and earth. In Judaism, the menorah has seven branches. In Islam there are seven heavens and seven earths. Even George RR Martin Game of Thrones universe, there is a God with seven faces – one god consisting of seven different entities such as Father, Smith, Crone and so on. It is similar to the Trinity in Christianity, but with a few additional members.
- Cultural Abbreviation: We often group important things into sevens: the Seven Wonders of the World, the Seven Seas, and so on.
- Celestial bodies: There are seven celestial bodies visible to the naked eye: the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus and Saturn, which is why many ancient civilizations, from the Romans to the Babylonians, used them for the names of the days of the week (and for the gods).
- Miller’s Law: Psychologists have argued that people have a cognitive bias towards the number 7, often referred to as the “magic number seven”. Some psychologists claim that people tend to remember about seven items or information. This is based on work The Magic Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Information Processing Capacity, which claims that humans can actually remember and/or process approximately 7 pieces of information plus or minus two.
- rainbow: Sir Isaac Newton came up with the concept of 7 colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Of course, color actually exists on a spectrum, so there’s a lot more to it than that, but as we know, 7 is a handy number for things like this!
- mistakes: There are also 7 deadly sins: pride, greed, anger, envy, lust, gluttony and sloth.
So there is a list of 7 things that make the number 7 interesting and unique! Many of them are somehow connected – days of the week, planets, religion, symbolism, etc. – but that’s also what makes it so interesting.
Okay, let’s do this Wordle!
How to solve today’s Wordle
Tip: The best way to transport whiskey.
Clue: This word has many more consonants than vowels in it.
Answer:
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Today’s Wordle
Today’s etymology of the word
The word “bottle” has an interesting etymology. It comes from the Middle English word “flask”, which comes from the Old English word “flasce” or “flax”. The Old English word was ultimately derived from the Late Latin word “flasco” or “flasconem”, which meant a bottle or container.
The Late Latin term, in turn, can be traced back to the Frankish word “boca,” which meant a bottle or vessel made of leather. The Frankish word was influenced by the Old High German word “flaska”, which means bottle or flask.
The root of the word “flask” can be traced back even further to the Proto-Germanic word “flaskō”, which meant container or bottle. This Proto-Germanic word is believed to come from the Proto-Indo-European root “bhlesk”, meaning to blow or swell. This root is also related to other words referring to swelling or inflation.
Over time, the term “bottle” has been used to refer to various types of containers, including those made of glass, metal, or other materials. Today it usually refers to a small, narrow-necked container used to carry liquids, often with a screw top or stopper.
Wordle Bot analysis
After I finish Wordle, I always go to login Wordle Bot to see how I scored, both in terms of each individual guess and if I outsmarted the Bot or not.
Today’s word really slipped my mind despite the fact that it ended up being a great opening premise. I guess I should have been a little more strategic. After getting two yellow boxes with my first word, spoil, I should hit something with all the new letters, and throw the field out a bit more. But I wanted to turn the yellows into green, so I guessed conflict and ended up with three green boxes—and four words left.
All four remaining words-explosion, blase, flask and glass—they were equally likely options, but I thought I would choose one of the two that started with the same letter, so I chose blast which narrowed it down to just two: glass or bottle, two things you can use to hold whiskey. I choose zucchini simply because it’s more fun, and that was luck in the end. Flask for the win! Huzzah!
Today’s score: Well, definitely not as good as yesterday’s! I get zero points for guessing in 4 and -1 for losing to Wordle Bot for a total of -1. Sad!
Play Competitive Wordle Against Me!
I played a horrible game of PvP Wordle against my nemesis Wordle But. Now you should play against me! I can be your enemy! (And your helpful guide to Wordle, of course). You can also play against the Bot if you have a subscription to the New York Times.
- Here are the rules: 1 point to get Wordle in 3 guesses.
- 2 points to get in 2 guesses.
- 3 points to get in 1 guess.
- 1 point for beating Erik
- 0 points to get in 4 guesses.
- -1 point to get in 5 guesses.
- -2 points to get in 6 guesses.
- -3 points for loss.
- -1 point for losing to Eric
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