This
year again I choose an easy way out. Each day I'm going to solve the Wordle
of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of
the day. I hope to post every dayuntil the end of April. As the alternative badges, as supplied by Lissa suggest travel I'll prefer travel-related words as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once.
I'll maybe add a few words about my chosen starter word if fancy takes me and I have time and energy for it, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.
Today my starting word is Nomad.
The average today is 5,5, or very challenging -- I am still at or just below average, and I could have done better, guess number four was not smart, as I knew this could not be the solution. But even after getting it, I was not sure of the meaning of today's solution and had to look it up after.
Wordle 1.762 5/6
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Nomad ... Yes we met nomads while travelling.
In Egypt, we took a train from Cairo to the Aswan dam - more I hope later.
As we rode the train through the desert, where we experienced a sandstorm, the train stopped in small towns or near villages. Once the train stopped in the middle of the desert. There was a building next to the track - more like a glorified bus stop, open to one side with an overhanging roof. I guess it was for shelter against sun and rain for waiting passengers. Three men, dressed in flowing robes got off here and started walking purposefully away over the endless sand. As far as we were able to see - and we looked at the men for a long time - there was nothing but sand and the ruler straight line of the train tracks with the stop, dwindling in the distance.
Our guess was that those were nomads, due for the nearest oasis.
And now for today's Wordle:
I don't know about nomads but walking the desert for a long while sounds tiring.
SvarSletCubit? Never heard of that word. NYT do seem to pick the oddest words.
Have a lovely day.
Walking in a desert IS tiring - and hot. But they lived there, and it's their home.
SletI think NYT is running out of words to use ;)
You do have to be careful walking in the desert. My husband’s father told of an officer who passed out trying to walk to the nearest dune when they were in North Africa during WWII.
SvarSletIn one of the older English translations of The Bible, the giant Goliath’s height is described as “six cubits and a span.” It’s a very old term for measurement.
With approximately 13,000 five letter words in English (as accepted by Scrabble), I don’t know if they’ll run out very soon.
They sure knew, those three.
SletI also found cubit to be an old measurement - as long as the underarm of a man ;) I'll have to see what the Danish translation says - as we, of course, have an equivalent word.
13,000 five-letter words - wow what a lot. Today's Wordle will be number 1,763 - so ten times as long yet - even if Wordle is a bit more restrictive as far as I know.
Found it - both actually: "Wordle has 12,966 valid five-letter words. Out of which, 2,309 words are official answers. 10,657 are available to use as guess-only words." knowing these 2,309 words would make solving Wordle way easier ;) They began re-using the solutions in February.
SletAnd Goliath is decribed as: "seks alen og et fingerspand høj" - which is the exact same measurements in Danish.
I'm guessing those Nomads also knew exactly which direction to walk in, while someone like me would wander hopelessly in circles.
SvarSletI would too. I once read that without points of orientation every human being walks in circles - even when trying to walk straight ahead - because our legs are not 100 % alike ;)
SletThe mental image of nomads taking a train to a middle of desert stop and then walking out into the sands fascinates me. I could get lost in my small city neighborhood. How do people find their way? If they don't find the oasis, is there any rescue? My guess is that they pick up on clues we wouldn't even know to notice. To me, that's amazing. It's a way of life that I can hardly imagine
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