Live: an even more challenging Wordle answer #270, March 16

Date:
Wed, 16 Mar 2022 09:39:36 +0000

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Less than a week on from Wordle #265 and the New York Times has done it again.

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Hot off the challenge of puzzle #265, which saw hundreds of players losing their winning streak, the latest Wordle is another problem that could end
your run of success. Honestly, who would have thought Watch would be the end of so many of us?

Before reading on, clearly, this live blog is going to contain spoilers for Wordle puzzle #270, the challenge for March 16. If you want to go into todays problem clean then you should head over to Wordle now and give it a go. If
you want a hint (or the solution - no judgment here) then weve written a
guide to todays Wordle answer with a couple of hints so you dont have to miss out on all the fun.

Of course, if youd like some more general strategies for taking on todays problem, Id suggest taking a look at the best starting words for Wordle . Its not just a list of handy suggestions, we look into the tactics of
codebreakers and linguistic theorists to come up with the perfect first word for Wordle. (Image credit: New York Times)

Okay, onto todays puzzle. After last weeks Wordle caused complaints, youd think the New York Times might avoid choosing a word with so many possible variables. With March 11s puzzle, you could land on the _atch part of the solution quickly and run through six perfectly reasonable variations of the answer without landing on the correct solution. latch, patch, catch, match, natch, and batch would all seem like good answers and they would have got you no nearer to a winning answer.

Of course, what made it more frustrating for anyone who lost their winning streak on March 11 was that the correct answer - watch - could escape your thinking because it had a different phonetic sound. You could lock in on the atch sound and entirely miss the otch possibilities.

Todays answer, if anything, is more frustrating because if youd tried to
learn the lesson of last weeks puzzle youll have been led astray. If youd landed on the _ater ending of the word and entered later, hater, rater, you may have taken a step back, thought of last week and tried water. Aiming for that different-sounding version of the same letters. You might, like me, have thought yourself pretty smart when you pressed enter. And, like me, sworn
when it was another failure.

If Wordle has a lesson to teach us it is to remain humble.



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