This puzzle is based on the viral word guessing game Wordle. The boxes represent seven games of Wordle played using a
total of 31 words, which are clue with cryptic clues at the bottom of the puzzle. The seven answer words for the
seven games are indicated in green. The clues and answers are:
| Clue |
Answer |
Explanation |
| Can't get enough of commercial material |
ADORE |
AD + ORE |
| Tack on a very loud ""Nine!"" |
AFFIX |
A + FF + IX |
| Film genre class returns without taking sides |
ANIME |
sEMINAr rev. |
| Lashes are essentially conciliatory |
CILIA |
conCILIAtory |
| Tournament official losing their head for kitchen tool |
CORER |
sCORER |
| Love, in brief, to woo |
COURT |
C(O)URT |
| Deal with, right after bay |
COVER |
COVE + R |
| Energy gathered by bear's dice |
CUBES |
CUB(E)S |
| Second half of the people present at ball |
DANCE |
attenDANCE |
| Had Teena lost |
EATEN |
Teena anag. |
| Finished, fixed, needing no introduction |
ENDED |
mENDED |
| Each night before reality ends |
EVERY |
EVE + RealitY |
| Divine blood in mixed choir |
ICHOR |
choir anag. |
| Card card |
JOKER |
double def. |
| Nathan's alley divisions |
LANES |
double def. |
| Lesson learned from grinding molar |
MORAL |
molar anag. |
| Knight breaking—a lot to chew on |
MUNCH |
MU(N)CH |
| Alcott mostly converted into base 8 |
OCTAL |
ALCOTt anag. |
| How snowboards are so bad, strangely? |
ODDLY |
every other letter in SnOwBoArDs = so bad |
| Less accurate proposal? |
OFFER |
punny double def. |
| Officially knowingly acknowledges ""yes,"" signs initials! |
OKAYS |
starts of Officially Knowingly Acknowledges Yes Signs, &lit |
| Again forbid McEntire? No |
REBAN |
REBA + N |
| Woodwind section recites aloud |
REEDS |
""reads"" homophone |
| Send back clock to pay |
REMIT |
TIMER rev. |
| Nest made of tangled roots |
ROOST |
roost anag. |
| Dropping drive from steering device is less polite |
RUDER |
RUdDER |
| Weapon of Buffy's turf, they say |
STAKE |
""steak"" homophone |
| Stolen 10 around Alaska |
TAKEN |
T(AK)EN |
| School-wise operation |
USAGE |
U+SAGE |
| Wired differently! |
WEIRD |
Wired anag. &lit |
| Long twelve months, no? |
YEARN |
YEAR + N |
The answers to these 31 clues can then be placed into the seven Wordle games as follows:
| 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 | ANIME |
| ⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩 | REBAN |
| ⬛🟨🟨🟨🟨 | STAKE |
| 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 | TAKEN |
| ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ | EVERY |
| ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 | MUNCH |
| 🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ | OCTAL |
| ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 | JOKER |
| 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 | ICHOR |
| 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ | CILIA |
| 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨 | COVER |
| 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 | COURT |
| ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 | OFFER |
| 🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ | MORAL |
| 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 | ROOST |
| 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 | REMIT |
| 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ | AFFIX |
| 🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩 | EATEN |
| ⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ | OKAYS |
| 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 | YEARN |
| ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 | WEIRD |
| ⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛ | ODDLY |
| ⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ | REEDS |
| 🟨⬛🟨⬛🟨 | DANCE |
| ⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ | LANES |
| 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 | ENDED |
| ⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛ | CUBES |
| ⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨 | ADORE |
| 🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 | USAGE |
| ⬛⬛🟨🟩🟩 | CORER |
| 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 | RUDER |
In each board, one column of letters reading down spells out a word. These words in order are MAKE EMOJI ART FROM FAKE WORDLE BOARD. Upon putting this phrase into the answer checker, teams were asked to complete this task and send us evidence that they had done so. After doing this, they were given the actual answer to the puzzle, which is DESKTOP PACKAGE TRACKER.
