FIVE-LETTER HUMOR

The Reward and Risk of Wordle

I think I passed the first challenge

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Admittedly, I am writing this a day late, so I will not say “Spoiler Alert”, because if you didn’t solve the Wordle yesterday, then you don’t know.

To recap, I am on a quest from Wordle. It was a bit shaky at first with me not completely sure if I was on the right track, but now… I’m on it. Today’s Wordle answer was MONEY!

Could it be that Wordle needed MONEY, that somehow Wordle had been taken for ransom? If that’s the case, then this is not a quest for me. This is a quest for someone who has MONEY and I don’t think that my Medium earnings are going to cut it for whatever sort of evil entity has kidnapped the Wordle gods. Besides, most of my MONEY is tied up in the collectibles market right now, so until the resurgence of ET Memorabilia I’m afraid I’m insolvent.

So, I can only believe that this quest will result in MONEY. Now, that’s a quest for me. And so I embark, ever emboldened by the promise of wealth and the trappings that go with it.

Now today (spoiler alert for today’s Wordle), I get a word that seems to make it clear that I am PIVOTAL in the quest that the Wordle gods have given me. It’s clear from today’s answer that I could be at a veritable TURNING POINT in my…