This year 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 post every day at 6 pm. my time (GMT +2. Dang you DST!)As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I'll prefer those 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, else I'll just post the solution - or not in the case that I did not solve it.
U is for Urman. Don't you know what Urman is? I did not either until this morning. I was looking for plant-related words with U and five letters. This is surprisingly hard. I found Umami, Utile, Ulmus (Latin for Elm and a medicine made from this), Ursus (a bear), and then I stumbled over URMAN. A link took me to this explanation:
URMAN
noun,
plural -s
Meaning: taiga sense 1
Etymology Russian, from Kazan Tatar, forest *)
Meaning: taiga sense 1
Etymology Russian, from Kazan Tatar, forest *)
As I always dreamt of seeing the taiga on a ride on the Trans-Siberian Railway, I grasped this word, hoping to have it accepted by Wordle, and it was. Unfortunately I was not up to the challenge, and got the third Fail of April.
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*) I use the Merriam-Webster page, where you can define number of letters and starting letter. A very useful tool for finding starter words for the A-Z Challenge
What a helpful too. Only three failures for the month is pretty good. Very good.
SvarSletA bit more than normal, but as Mimi says, limiting the starter words makes for poorer outcome. I haven't solved any in three guesses, and normally I have 2-3 of these a month as well.
SletI think you are doing great, considering you are limited in your starting words.
SvarSletSo true, one row more, and I'd have guessed it. Thanks.
SletU words that are five letters are a bit difficult to think up. And words starting with O also a bit rare. Three fails is not much so you're doing great.
SvarSletHave a lovely day.
Extra challenging with the restrictions you have posed for yourself - I'd say you should give yourself a pat on the back for persisting :)
SvarSlet