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Wordle Postgame Report, November 28

GAMES OF SKILL AND CHANCE DEP'T.

Tom Scocca

29 Nov 2022 — 1 min read

TEPID applause fr. some among 5,000 mil. officers gathered at Kremlin for all-Army mtg. to voice discontent over threatened break-up of Soviet Armed Forces into republican armies (in uncertainty of new, Russian-led commonwealth). (Photo by Sergei Guneyev/Getty Images)

The Wordle Postgame Report is a brief analysis of a game of Wordle, the five-letter-word guessing game now owned by the New York Times. If you do not play Wordle, Indignity encourages you to please skip this item. The existence of the Wordle Postgame Report does not constitute an endorsement of playing Wordle, not playing Wordle, or of the New York Times.

November 28, TEPID, 3/6

FIRST I THOUGHT of SLOTH, but that had already been an answer, so I tried CLOTH. Yellow T. TRAIN turned it green, with a green I as well. Now the word was on track. Was it one syllable, maybe with the T in a consonant pair and the I in a vowel pair? Or was it two syllables? The T couldn't go with an H or an R anymore, and the I would have to be part of an EI, rather than an IE. So THIEF was out. What would the two-syllable version look like? T-vowel-consonant-I-consonant. Regular old common E was still in play. T-E-consonant-I-consonant. TEPID. The game had barely heated up and it was over.

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