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The big day is here at last. Merry Christmas, my dearest Wordlers! I hope you have a wonderful day of celebration, whether you're celebrating the birth of Christ or just enjoying friends and family and presents and the season's cheer. No matter how you celebrate the holidays, may they be warm and wonderful and joyous!
It's not only Christmas, it's also Wordle Wednesday which means I have a special riddle for you to solve. This is a tough one, so get your holiday thinking caps on!
Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here.
I went with another wintery opening guess today, but SNOWY was not a great start to my Wordling this Christmas day. With 207 remaining solutions, I plugged in CRATE and slashed that down to just two. Impulsively, I guessed SPARE without even coming up with any other possible solutions. Alas, the Wordle was SHARE. Oh well!
Competitive Wordle Score
I get 0 points for guessing in four and -1 for losing to the Bot, who took just three tries today. Sigh.
The word "share" comes from the Old English "scearu", meaning "a cutting, division, or part." This is derived from the Proto-Germanic "skaro", which refers to something cut or separated. The root "sker-" in Proto-Indo-European means "to cut" or "to divide." Over time, the meaning evolved to imply portions or allocations of something, as well as the concept of distributing or partaking in something with others.