Today’s Bonus Custom Wordle

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’s Bonus Custom Wordle is 6 letters long.

The hint: Sports

The clue: Yesterday’s Custom Wordle

Yesterday’s Custom Wordle Answer: PUCK

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 fewer. After each guess, the game gives feedback to help you get closer to the answer:

• Green: The letter is in the word and in the correct spot.
• Yellow: The letter is in the word, but in the wrong spot.
• Gray: The letter is not in the word at all.

Use these clues to narrow down 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 against me, your humble narrator. See rules for Competitive Wordle toward the end of this post.

Today’s Wordle Hints And Answer

• Wordle Bot’s Starting Word: SLATE
• My Starting Word Today: HAPPY (1,057 words left)
• The Hint: This Wordle makes a face.
• The Clue: This Wordle begins with a vowel.

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 right here.

So I chose HAPPY because I wanted to say Happy Birthday to Wordle. It didn’t work out, leaving me with 1,057 possible solutions and all grey boxes. On the other hand, this notion of happiness did lead me to victory. Once CHOIR slashed my choices down to just four words, I came up with EMOJI as one possibility. Well, happy face emoji is the leading emoji out there, beating even the poop emoji and the sad face emoji when it comes to popular opinion (according to studies I’ve just made up in my own head). I thought, just because HAPPY didn’t get me much doesn’t mean I shouldn’t stick with this line of thinking. Lucky for me, today’s Wordle was EMOJI!

Competitive Wordle Score

I get 1 point for guessing in three and 1 for beating the Bot. That’s 2 points x 2 for 2XP Friday = 4 points. The Wordle Bot gets 0 for guessing in four and -1 for losing to me, or -2 for 2XP Friday. Our June totals widen as I take a pretty decent lead (though at one point this month, the Wordle Bot was way ahead — anything could still happen).

Erik: 16 points

Wordle Bot: 7 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. If you tie, 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 just play for a new score each day.
• Fridays are 2XP, meaning you double your points—positive or negative.
• You can keep a running tally or just play day-by-day. Enjoy!

Today’s Wordle Etymology

“Emoji” comes from Japanese e (絵, “picture”) + moji (文字, “character” or “letter”), literally meaning “picture character.” It was coined in Japan in the 1990s for small pictorial symbols used in electronic messaging. Despite the similarity in sound, it is unrelated to the English word “emotion.”

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