Today's Word #1231 with tips, hints and answers for Friday November 1st

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ForbesToday's “Wordle” No. 1230 with tips, hints and answers for Thursday, October 31stFrom Erik Cain

It's November, dearest Wordlers, and Halloween is over. Today is the beginning Dia de los Muertos, or the Day of the Dead. There's no reason to stop celebrating once Halloween is over. This whole weekend is a spooky affair.

I'm a little sad about the end of October. The blooming season of autumn is behind us. Soon all the leaves will fall off and the trees will be bare. The gloomy face of winter is looming. We have to stay warm and happy. However, I am looking forward to Thanksgiving, perhaps the most wonderful holiday of all. A celebration without gifts.

First, let's solve this Wordle! Oh, and it's 2XP Friday, so double your points and losses!

How to solve today's word

The note: Numerical.

The note: This wordle contains an 8 dot Scrabble letter.

OK, Spoilers below!

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The answer:

Word analysis

Every day I look at Wordle Bot to analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here.

It would have been kind of fun to get this one on my sixth try. Irony is fun. Unfortunately I had to guess four times today. PEACH got me down to just 42 words and SOUTH down to 3. But out of three options it's still hard to guess and I was so close to SMITH. For my fourth guess, only the SIXTH remained. Huzzah!

Competitive Wordle Score

I get 0 points for guessing four and -1 for losing to the bot. That's a total of -1 x 2 or -2 today. Too bad!

How to Play Competitive Wordle

• Guessing 1 is worth 3 points; guessing 2 is worth 2 points; guessing 3 is worth 1 point; guessing 4 is worth 0 points; guessing in 5 is -1 points; Guessing on 6 is -2 points and missing the wordle is -3 points.
• If you beat your opponent you get 1 point. If there is a tie you get 0 points. And if you lose to your opponent, you get -1 point. Add it up to get your score. Keep a daily running score or simply play for a new score every day.
• Fridays are 2XP, which means you double your points – positive or negative.
• You can keep a running list or just play day by day. Enjoy!

Today's Wordle etymology

The word sixth goes back to Old English sixtawhich means “sixth order”. This comes from Proto-Germanic see-ta- and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root s(w)eks, means “six”. The suffix “-th,” used for ordinal numbers in English, marks their position in the order.

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