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Today’s Wordle Review: August 4, 2023

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Our columnist reviews the day’s puzzle. Warning: Contains spoilers!

By Sarah Lyall

Sarah Lyall is a writer who covers a variety of topics, including sports, culture, media and international, and plays Wordle daily with the oversight of her canine assistant.

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 Annelise Capossela. You can read more about her here.

★★★★

Wordle 776 3/6

🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ TRAIN⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜ STARK🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CHART

I do Wordle in bed first thing in the morning, and I feel grumpy and unfulfilled until I’ve solved it. My go-to word used to be STARE, which is full of excellent letters but is a rude thing to do. Now I pick words that are relevant to the day at hand — either to a story I’m writing or to something that’s going on. This is harder than it ought to be. Like, often I wake up when Charlie, my intrepid yet snuggly Border terrier, pokes at me with her tiny adorable paws, but PAWS is too short, INTREPID and SNUGGLY are too long, and DOGGY would be foolish, because of the treacherous double G’s.

Anyway, we’re going away for the weekend, so I open with TRAIN, a delightful form of transportation that contains one of my favorite vowels. (A weird feature of my name is that, out of 10 letters, three are A’s and three are L’s, so I’m biased toward those letters.)

Thrillingly, not only have I turned up an R and a T, but I’ve hit the jackpot with a correctly situated A. I could try START, but that is a boring word, and I don’t want to double up on a letter this early, so I pick STARK, because I just saw “Oppenheimer” and have been thinking about how good Robert Downey Jr. was in the first “Iron Man” movie, before the sequels corroded his earlier achievement.

Now I have three letters in place, since the T has to go at the end. The obvious next guess would be HEART, but I think we had that one recently? In any case, I try CHART. There’s something very pleasing about the CH combination, even if the word brings up stressful memories from my days as a confused high school science student.

Bingo! (Or, Wordle!) I solved it in three. A good day for me and for my small furry assistant.

Today’s word is CHART, a noun. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, it can refer to a map or a group of facts organized in a “diagram, table, graph, etc.”

Today’s puzzle is moderately easy. The letter pattern is distinctive enough that the answer can be found within six guesses, and the word is familiar, with no repeating letters.

For more in-depth analysis, visit our friend, WordleBot.

Annelise Capossela is an award-winning illustrator who is based in New York City and who is originally from Vermont. Her work explores the human experience and is driven by psychology, identity and relationships to community and everyday life. Aesthetically, she is inspired by human-made works such as textiles, fine art and storytelling. When she is not illustrating or teaching, Ms. Capossela is probably outside with her partner and their dog, Winnie, hiking in some mountains or wandering through Central Park.

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