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Gaming Today’s Wordle #1888: Hints, Clues And Answer For Thursday August 20 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.
Note: yesterday I added the Wordle Wednesday riddle late. And because of that, I’m not going to post the answer today. I’m going to post the answer tomorrow, on 2XP Friday. Here’s the riddle you may have missed:
I’ll post the answer tomorrow! Now let’s Wordle, baby!
Looking for Wednesday's Wordle answer? Check out our guide right here .
Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase
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.
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 .
Well I finally lost a round to the Wordle Bot, not that Mr. Bot did all that great, either. CRANE was a decent opener, leaving me with just 64 words, and I really thought SPOUT would be a good second guess, but I had 8 left. And then I fell into the repeat trap. DRILL gave me four green letters. FRILL kept those four and nothing more. Thankfully, GRILL got me to the Wordle on guess #5.
The Bot and I tie with four, earning 0 points each. Our August totals remain quite skewed as I take my revenge:
Murky — from Middle English mirke/murk, meaning “dark, gloomy, obscure,” from Old Norse myrkr, “darkness” or “dark.” It’s related to Icelandic myrkur, “darkness.” The literal sense of “dark, lacking light” eventually broadened to mean “cloudy or dirty” (especially water) and figuratively “unclear, obscure, or morally dubious.”
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