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Hard Wordle today.

Wordle 240 4/6

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Path

lemur
shack
topic
cynic

It took me a long time after shack to find a word that had 1) all different letters 2) a C 3) none of L, E, M, U, R, S, H, A, K. I know I didn’t need to guess all different, but that’s the most efficient way.

The Latin Wordle was frustrating. There was no skill involved in the endgame, since it came down to guessing a single letter, which I got wrong four times. Sure, the solution was a more common word than my guesses, but I’m still annoyed.

You don’t get a share button if you lose, so I had to diy.

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Path

picae (magpies, nom.)
malis (apple trees, dat. / abl.)
altis (high / deep, dat. / abl.)
albis (white, dat. / abl.)
alvis (stomach, dat. / abl.)
algis (seaweed, dat. abl.)

The solution was aliis, the dat. and abl. of β€œothers”.

I can’t even come up with another five letter word, in any language, which you could alter by the same letter four times and produce five valid variations.

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