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Gaming Today’s Wordle #1884: Hints And Answer, Sunday August 16 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.
Lazy Sunday means we get to just solve puzzles and then read through my friendly neighborhood streaming guide for all the best shows and movies you can watch while being lazy all day long. Doing nothing. Just watching the tele and doom-scrolling. Let’s solve this Wordle first, eh?
Looking for Saturday'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.
Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The Phrase
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 .
I was lucky for two reasons today. SPACE was just . . . incredibly lucky. It left me with just one word. That’s lucky any time it happens but especially when you have no clue what the Wordle even means. I thought I was losing my mind for a minute trying to come up with anything — anything at all — and ended up typing in ASPIC just hoping it would work. I had no idea it was a type of “meat jelly” or that its origin as a word likely has to do with venomous snakes like asps. I guess you learn something new every day. And sometimes you get lucky in the process.
I get 2 points for guessing in two and 1 for beating the Bot. The Bot gets 1 for guessing in three and loses it for losing to me. Our wide August gap widens further:
“Aspic” comes from French aspic , originally “asp” or “viper,” ultimately from Greek aspis . The same French word became the name for savory meat jelly, though exactly why is uncertain—possibly because of its appearance or cold, glossy character.
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