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Wordle Postgame Report, July 5

GAMES OF SKILL AND CHANCE DEP'T.

Tom Scocca

Jul 7, 2022 — 1 min read

A view of Eggborough Power Station from the south-west, showing a front-loader tractor working in the FIELD in the foreground. This image was catalogued as part of the Breaking New Ground Project in partnership with the John Laing Charitable Trust in 2019-20. Artist John Laing plc. (Photo by Historic England/Heritage Images via Getty Images)

July 5, FIELD, 4/6

The Wordle Postgame Report is a brief analysis of a past 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.

A SHORT TRIP semantically, a Wordle jaunt of average length. PLAIN yielded a yellow L and I. SMILE placed the L correctly and added a yellow E to the still-yellow I. Unless the target was going to begin or end in I, or begin with EI-, that meant skeleton would be _ I E L _. WIELD? Nope, all green but the W. Had to be FIELD, then. One slight bump on a journey over level ground.

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