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Wordle, Wordle, Wordle. Every day another Wordle to puzzle out, and you fine Wordlers to puzzle it out alongside me. I suspect many readers are here just to compare scores with me and the Bot. I know I'm not the only competitive gamer 'round these parts. I'm having a much better month than October so far, with a narrow lead over the evil, nefarious Wordle Bot. Let's see how we fare today!

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Wordle is a daily word puzzle game where your goal is to guess a hidden five-letter word in six tries or fewer. After each guess, the game gives feedback to help you get closer to the answer:

Use these clues to narrow down your guesses. Every day brings a new word, and everyone around the world is trying to solve the same puzzle. Some Wordlers also play Competitive Wordle against friends, family, the Wordle Bot or even against me, your humble narrator. See rules for Competitive Wordle toward the end of this post.

Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordle score with Wordle Bot right here.

SPARE is normally a pretty good starting guess, but not today. Thankfully, LINGO slashed the 354 words I had remaining down to just 8 -- though that's still not ideal. I tried BLOWN next, but this left me with two to choose from: COLON and NYLON. I liked my odds better with a word that didn't have two doubles in it, and I was right! NYLON for the win! The sad thing is, I almost guessed NYLON for my third guess . . . . oh well.

The Bot gets 1 point for guessing in three and 1 for beating me. I get 0 for guessing in four and -1 for losing to the Bot. Alas, the horrible, no-good, dirty, rotten Wordle Bot has taken the lead!

The word "nylon" was coined in 1938 by scientists at DuPont when they developed the first synthetic fiber. Its exact origin is uncertain -- DuPont never officially explained it -- but it's generally considered an invented brand name rather than a word derived from older roots.

Popular myths claim it stood for New York + London or that it originally was "No-Run," but neither is true. It was simply chosen for its short, catchy, and modern sound -- typical of early 20th-century industrial naming trends.

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