Today’s Wordle #1671 with tips and answers for Thursday, January 15

Yesterday was Wordle Wednesday, which means I handed out an extra riddle for you fine Wordlers to solve. This was the riddle:

Day after day I cut and I cut, a thousand thousand cuts I made, but never drew blood. What am I?

The answer: a hairstylist or a hairdresser. Okay, let’s solve today’s Wordle!

Looking for Wednesday’s Wordle? View our guide here.

Today’s Bonus Word

Now that we can create our own custom Wordles, I’m including a bonus Wordle with each daily Wordle guide. These can be 4 to 7 letters long. Hopefully this is a nice extra challenge. Click the link below to play the Wordle I handmade for you.

Today’s Bonus Custom Wordle is 7 letters long.

The hint: Like a chasm.

The clue: This wordle ends with a vowel.

Yesterday’s modified Wordle answer: PILLOY

How to Solve Today’s Wordle

How to play Wordle

Wordle is a daily word puzzle game where your goal is to guess a hidden five-letter word in six tries or less. After each guess, the game provides feedback to help you get closer to the answer:

• Vegetable: The letter is in the word and in the right place.
• Yellow: The letter is in the word, but in the wrong place.
• Gray: The letter is not in the word at all.

Use these clues to refine your guesses. Every day brings a new word, and everyone around the world is trying to solve the same puzzle. Some Wordlers also play Competitive Wordle against friends, family, the Wordle Bot, or even me, your humble narrator. See the rules for Competitive Wordle at the end of this post.

Today’s Wordle Tips and Answer

• Wordle Bot’s starting word: SLATE
• My starting word today: HOF (72 words remaining)
• The tip: A break, for sure.
• The clue: This Wordle has many more consonants than vowels.

Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming!

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The answer:

Wordle Bot Analysis

Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordle score with Wordle Bot here.

COURT was a solid opening bet, leaving me with a green “C” and only 72 possible solutions. Unfortunately, SPADE narrowed that down to three so I had to take a chance. There was CLASH, CLASS and CHASM to choose from, and I almost never go for the doubles, leaving CLASH and CHASM. These were better choices because they shared an “H” source. I often guess CHAIR on my second guess, but I had used the ‘R’ in COURT. I chose CHASM because it’s a cool word, and lo and behold, that was the Wordle!

Competitive Wordle Score

De Bot and I were tied with three, which gave us 1 point each. Our January totals remain ample.

Erik: 12 points

Word Bot: 3 points

How to Play Competitive Wordle

• Guessing in 1 is worth 3 points; guessing in 2 is worth 2 points; guessing in 3 is worth 1 point; guessing in 4 is worth 0 points; guessing in 5 is -1 points; guessing in 6 is -2 points and missing the Wordle is -3 points.
• If you beat your opponent, you get 1 point. In case of a draw you get 0 points. And if you lose to your opponent, you get -1 point. Add it up to get your score. Keep a daily running score or play for a new score every day.
• Friday is 2XP, which means you double your points: positive or negative.
• You can keep a running tally or just play day by day. Enjoy!

Contemporary Wordle Etymology

Gap comes from the Greek khasma, meaning ‘yawning hollow’ or ‘yawning opening’, from the verb khainein (‘to gape or yawn’). It entered English through Late Latin chasma and retained the sense of a deep, open divide.

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