Today’s Wordle #398 Hint And Answer: Friday, July 22nd Word Of The Day

Here’s today’s Wordle plus a helpful hint.

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Thank the gods it’s finally Friday!

I’m at San Diego Comic-Con and Friday is definitely an exciting day for nerds like your humble narrator. My day kicks off with a Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power panel after which I’ll stick around Hall H for Tales Of The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead and Keanu Reeves’ BRZRKR.

Thursday I attended two amazing panels. The first was for the AppleTV drama Severance and it was terrific. Director Ben Stiller was there along with several members of the crew and show creator Dan Erickson. Comedian Patton Oswalt moderated. Then I went to The Dragon Prince panel and got to see the very first episode of Season 4 ahead of its November release on Netflix. Very cool!

There’s a bunch more Saturday but we’ll get to that next time. For now, let’s take a look at today’s Wordle!

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And now for the hint!

When two people love each other very much and agree to meet up somewhere to put that love into action we call it a [ ].

And now for the answer!

Today’s Wordle

Credit: Erik Kain

Kind of a tricky word given it only has a “sort-of vowel” and double Ts. I think I got lucky with my second guess, getting the ‘TR’ in green.

Also, I managed to eliminate the ‘O’ and ‘E’ in drone, the ‘A’ and ‘I’ in trail and the ‘U’ in truck, which left me with the letter ‘Y’ to work with. As far as I can tell, there aren’t many other words that start with ‘TR’ and include only ‘Y’ and no other vowels.

Wordle Bot naturally says I should have picked crane even though it wouldn’t have done any better than drone, which got me down to 63 possible remaining solutions. Trail reduced that to just six, though Wordle Bot bizarrely thinks I should have guessed talcs here as though I would ever think of that word (seriously what?)

I have to agree with the Bot on the next one, however. Guessing trust would have been more helpful than truck because it would have given me the ST at the end. But I didn’t really need that anyways since I guessed the right answer—tryst—on my next guess. It was the only remaining solution either way.

Have a great Friday and a terrific weekend, dearest Wordlers!