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Wordle Postgame Report, January 18, 2023

GAMES OF SKILL AND CHANCE DEP'T.

Tom Scocca

Jan 19, 2023 — 1 min read

Woman wearing an artificial leg, 1890-1910. UNITED KINGDOM: Studio photograph of a seated woman wearing an artificial leg, her face obscured by a magazine. The leg was manufactured by James Gillingham (1839-1924), a boot- and shoemaker based in CHARD, Somerset. Gillingham first started making artificial limbs after a local man lost an arm firing a cannon for a celebratory salute in 1863. He then began making prostheses on a permanent basis and Chard eventually became a major centre of the British artificial limb industry. (Photo by SSPL/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, of not playing Wordle, or of the New York Times.

January 18, 2023, CHARD, 3/6

I SAW THE Ben Smith book galley on my desk and remembered that SMITH is also a non-proper noun. I played it and got four gray squares and a yellow H. HORDE kept the H yellow, adding a yellow R and D. That put the H somewhere on the interior, presumably in a combination. TH- and SH- were already out. Unless there was a DH- or RH- involved, the H and the RD were going to stay separate. So: CH- and -RD, and O was already out. CHARD. Last night's vegetable, as it happened. The grid served up a row of greens.

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