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Education Today’s Wordle #1878: Hints And Answer, Monday August 10 By Erik Kain ,
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Looking for help with today’s Wordle? In this guide, we have some extra hints and clues to help you on your path to Wordle victory, plus a fun Bonus Wordle to solve while you’re at it. The answer is below as well, plus some Wordle Bot analysis and plenty more.
The work week returns and school begins for many kids around the country. My own high schooler heads into his Junior year starting today, which is wild. Wild that he’s my youngest and so close to being done with high school. In any case, time waits for no man. Let’s solve this Wordle!
Looking for Sunday's Wordle answer? Check out our guide right here .
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 fun extra challenge. Click the link below to play the Wordle I hand-crafted for you today.
Today’s Bonus Custom Wordle is 5 letters long.
The clue: This Wordle begins and ends with consonants.
Yesterday’s Custom Wordle Answer: SPARROW
Okay, now that the bonus custom Wordle is out of the way, let’s move on to the official real deal Wordle!
Hints not enough, or curious to see if you did better than me on today’s Wordle? You can find the answer and read my Wordle Bot analysis and check out the current Competitive Wordle score between me, your humble Wordle guide, and the Wordle Bot below!
Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordle score with Wordle Bot right here .
STARE was a good opening guess, leaving me with just 32 words and SPOIL cut that number down to just 2. I actually didn’t even think of SWIPE and popped in SNIPE, which probably tells you something about my gaming habits (swipe left on those mobile apps and swipe right on first-person shooter PC games). In any case, huzzah for me!
I get 1 point for guessing in three and 1 for beating the Bot. The Bot gets 0 for guessing in four and loses 1 for losing to me. New August totals:
“Snipe” comes from Old Norse snýpa , referring to the long-billed marsh bird. The verb “to snipe” arose from hunting snipe—difficult birds to shoot—and later came to mean shooting from concealment or, figuratively, making a sharp, hostile remark.
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