The solution word to today’s Wordle puzzle (#493 — October 25, 2022) is foggy. Fog is a thick, obscuring mist, so the weather is foggy when such a mist is present, and a thing is foggy when it is unclear or befuddling. If you’re a weather nerd, you can check out an in-depth explanation of how fog forms from NOAA, but in short, it gets foggy whenever there is a temperature difference between the ground and the air. Foggy is from the Middle English word “fogge,” earlier spelled as “fog” to refer to the second growth of grass, but contextually used to mean spongy, marshy, or thick (via Merriam-Webster).
Like yesterday, we were able to solve the puzzle in four tries today. Our starting word, grunt, turned only one tile yellow, but WordleBot says it eliminated all but 82 words out of 2,315 possible answers. We followed up with agave, which further whittled down potential answers, and by the time we tried doggy as the third guess, the answer was apparent. We hope you finish even faster.
