Today’s ‘Wordle’ Word Of The Day Answer #244: Friday, February 18th

It’s Friday at last, and thank goodness. This week has been weirdly long but the weekend is here at last—or very nearly here.

Let’s dive into today’s surprisingly tricky Wordle. Some of these really can be tough to solve, and this one was no exception. I got it right on my fifth guess, but for a minute there I thought it might stump me entirely.

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Today’s Wordle Answer #244

Before we get to the answer, a warning! Spoilers ahead! Going further down this post will reveal today’s answer—though before we get to that, here’s a hint:

The best thing to do when it comes to metaphorical (or real) bullets.

And the answer is . . .

Holy Wordle, Batman! This one was tough! It took me quite a while—lots of excruciating brainstorming between guesses.

‘Quote’ wasn’t a bad first guess, since I got two vowels and eliminated one (and then could never really think of any other words that would make use of an ‘A’ or an ‘I’ once I knew where the ‘O’ and ‘E’ were supposed to go.

I also got rid of lots of common letters in my first three guesses—T, S, R, P, N. So many, I was a little lost on what was left available to me. I knew that ‘Gorge’ wouldn’t be right because of the ‘R’ but I was feeling pretty stumped and figured “Why not?”

This was the breakthrough moment, because now I had three letters in the right spots and so many others out of the running. In my mind I thought “hodgepodge” next, and very nearly went with ‘Podge’ for my fifth guess until I remembered I’d already guessed ‘Ponce’ (look up both those words for some fun British slang).

Still, I was fairly certain that it would be something with ‘odge’ at the end at this point and it wasn’t long before it came to me: Dodge! Of course! This one was close, but I dodged the bullet in the end. These words with two of the same letter are always just a smidge harder.

Happy Friday, Wordlers! Have a terrific weekend!

Further Reading:

• 12 Wordle alternatives you should definitely check out.
• Globle gives Wordle a fun, geographical spin.
• Check out yesterday’s Wordle #243 here.

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