Today’s ‘Wordle’ #1426 Hints, Clues And Answer For Thursday, May 15th

How to solve today’s Wordle. Looking for Wednesday’s Wordle hints, clues and answer? You can find them here: Forbes Today’s ‘Wordle’ #1425 Hints, Clues And Answer For Wednesday, May 14th By Erik Kain Since it’s Thor’s Day and yesterday was Odin’s Day, I owe all you dear Wordlers a solution to the Wordle Wednesday riddle I handed out yesterday. This was a bit of a lateral thinking puzzle: A husband and wife are driving down a road one night when the car runs out of gas. The man leaves his wife in the car and hurries to a gas station down the road. He leaves the doors locked. When he returns, the doors are still locked but his wife is dead and there’s a stranger in the car. What happened? The answer: The woman was pregnant. When the man went for help, she died giving birth and the man returned to find her dead and their child—the stranger—in the car. Grim, I know. At least I didn’t post it on Mother’s Day! Let’s solve this Wordle. How To Solve Today’s Wordle The Hint: Excited. The Clue: This Wordle has a more vowels than consonants. Okay, spoilers below! . . . The Answer: Today’s Wordle Wordle Analysis Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordles with Wordle Bot right here . I started out quite terribly today with FLITE, leaving me with a whopping 412 remaining solutions and one lonely yellow box. SHEAR cut that down to 26 and gave me another yellow and one green box. I figured I really needed to get the ‘E’ into green and picked EAGER, which had two possible locations for the vowel. I was actually a bit shocked when it ended up being the Wordle! Huzzah! Competitive Wordle Score Today’s Wordle Bot I made up for my big losses today, at least in part, getting 1 point for guessing in three and another for beating the Bot. The Bot gets 0 for guessing in four and -1 for losing to me. This adjusts our May tally to: Erik: 15 points Wordle Bot: 7 points How To Play Competitive Wordle Guessing in 1 is worth 3 points; guessing in 2 is worth 2 points; guessing in 3 is worth 1 point; guessing in 4 is worth 0 points; guessing in 5 is -1 points; guessing in 6 is -2 points and missing the Wordle is -3 points. If you beat your opponent you get 1 point. If you 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 just play for a new score each day. Fridays are 2XP, meaning you double your points—positive or negative. You can keep a running tally or just play day-by-day. Enjoy! Today’s Wordle Etymology The word eager comes from Middle English eagre , meaning “keen” or “fierce,” which was borrowed from Old French eigre . That, in turn, comes from Latin acer , meaning “sharp, keen, or spirited.” So originally, eager conveyed intensity or sharpness of desire. Let me know how you fared with your Wordle today on Twitter , Instagram or Facebook. Also be sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and follow me here on this blog where I write about games, TV shows and movies when I’m not writing puzzle guides. Sign up for my newsletter for more reviews and commentary on entertainment and culture. Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2025/05/14/todays-wordle-1426-hints-clues-and-answer-for-thursday-may-15th/