Wordle Postgame Report, July 28

GAMES OF SKILL AND CHANCE DEP'T.

10/25/2001 – Maggie, one of two hippopotamuses at the L.A. Zoo, is tempted with a pumpkin as she swims by in her enclosure. The hippos enjoyed a breakfast of pumpkins, corn stalks, apples, and gourds at the zoo's "STOMP and Chomp" pre–Halloween event this morning. FIRST IN A SERIES OF THREE PICTURES. (Photo by George Wilhelm/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images). Maggie, one of two hippopotamuses at the L.A. Zoo, lifts herself partially out of the water to receive a pumpkin offered by a zookeeper. The hippos enjoyed a breakfast of pumpkins, corn stalks, apples, and gourds at the zoo's "STOMP and Chomp" pre–Halloween event this morning. SECOND IN A SERIES OF THREE PICTURES. (Photo by George Wilhelm/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images). With pumpkin firmly in her grasp, Maggie, one of two hippopotamuses at the L.A. Zoo, gets a pat on the snout from a zookeeper. The hippos enjoyed a breakfast of pumpkins, corn stalks, apples, and gourds at the zoo's "STOMP and Chomp" pre–Halloween event this morning. THIRD IN A SERIES OF THREE PICTURES. (Photo by George Wilhelm/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

July 28, STOMP, 3/6

The Wordle Postgame Report is a brief analysis of a game of Wordle, the five-letter-word guessing game now owned by the New York Times. If you do not play Wordle, Indignity encourages you to please skip this item. The existence of the Wordle Postgame Report does not constitute an endorsement of playing Wordle, of not playing Wordle, or of the New York Times.

ONE CONFIDENT STEP after another. CHORD planted a green O in the middle of the word. STOVE got a green S and T to go before it—and, maybe just as valuably, eliminated the E. STO- seemed like a configuration that could go on indefinitely, but with STONE or STOLE gone, it wasn't as bad as it looked. STOA- or STOI- didn't look likely. STOO-? Maybe, but consonant combinations first. STONK is not yet a word. STOMP? Crushed it underfoot. 

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