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This month’s featured artist is Colin Laurel. You can read more about him here.

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★★★★★

Wordle 715 3/6*

🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨 SAUTÉ
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ ASTER
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BEAST

Today’s column is an ode to the commenters of the Wordle Review. Thank you for ensuring that this game never gets old. I started today’s solve with an opening word that happened to be perfect for this series, and I owe my success to the comments. Someone explained that they use SAUTÉ as a first guess and follow it with IRONY if that comes up blank.

SAUTÉ rewarded me with four usable, if misplaced, letters. I searched the archive for ASTER. Part of me hoped that the word — which denotes a plant with white, pink or violet petals and a yellow center — would be the day’s winner. I’ve come across commenters who participate in a “flora and fauna” challenge in which they start playing each day with a plant or animal word. I’ve seen such colorful choices as PERCH (the fish), PLUOT (a cross between a plum and an apricot) and WHEAT result from the challenge. Selecting opening words according to a theme along with your fellow Wordle players brings me so much joy as a community engagement manager, even if these words aren’t always the most strategic. As we’ve seen, all the ADIEUs and IRATEs in the world won’t save you when the winning word is NANNY. Why not have a little fun with your opening guess?

Also, feel free to suggest another thematic challenge in the comments. I’ll be following your lead!

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Today’s word is BEAST, a noun. According to Webster’s New World College Dictionary, it refers to an animal.

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Today’s Statistics

Information about the difficulty of today’s Wordle and how Times readers solved it will be available once more readers have had the chance to play.

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Our Featured Artist

Colin Laurel is a Black illustrator with an affinity for bold line work and joyous expression. He uses his identity as a lens through which to provide healing imagery to queer and marginalized communities, and he has referred to his art as a form of self-care. Mr. Laurel is influenced by vintage movie posters, production art, video games, music and mythology. With each piece, he hopes to convey humanity’s relationship with the beauty of nature.

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