The answer to Wordle #250 was

BLOKE: A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.

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Word difficulty: Moderate

Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters.

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How difficult was it for the solver?

In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #250 scores 38/100 for solver difficulty (middle of the pack).

105 Possible answers after CRANE
13 Possible answers after SLATE
199 Possible answers after ADIEU
3 Guesses in the solver replay

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Wordle #250, measured

This section compares BLOKE's solver-difficulty percentile, first-guess results for ten familiar openers, and opt-in player reports. Each number identifies its dataset.

Solver difficulty, as a percentile

38/100

This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, BLOKE measured harder for the solver than about 38% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is middle of the pack. CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave a large group.

Solver pressure ranks the answer within the pool; it does not measure player performance. The opener table compares first-guess results, and the contributed ratings report player results.

CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU benchmark

SLATE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 13 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, AUDIO left 286 candidates, about 22 times as many. The vowel-heavy probes ADIEU and AUDIO revealed comparatively little here. Vowel coverage helps only when the answer's vowels are still in doubt.

First-guess feedback each opener would have received against BLOKE, and how many answer-pool words would still match it
OpenerFirst-guess feedbackAnswers still possible
SLATE SLATE 13
SALET SALET 50
ARISE ARISE 62
RAISE RAISE 62
STARE STARE 90
TARSE TARSE 90
CRANE CRANE 105
TRACE TRACE 108
ADIEU ADIEU 199
AUDIO AUDIO 286

“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,374-word working answer pool whose feedback would match that opener exactly. This is pattern arithmetic, not a simulation. A smaller number means the opener left fewer possible answers after the first guess. It does not describe later turns.

Contributed player ratings

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What did you get?

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1 Suppressed
2 Suppressed
3 Suppressed
4 Suppressed
5 Suppressed
6 Suppressed
X Suppressed

The bars pool all 26 contributed games across every completed puzzle. The Observatory does not publish per-puzzle guess distributions below its sample threshold, so this is the broadest available comparison. “Suppressed” marks a low-count cell.

Solver replay

One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to BLOKE.

The solver reaches the answer in 3 guesses.

Common questions

What was the Wordle answer for February 24, 2022?
The Wordle answer for February 24, 2022 (puzzle #250) was BLOKE.
What does BLOKE mean?
BLOKE: A fellow, a man; especially an ordinary man, a man on the street.
Why was Wordle #250 tricky?
BLOKE is rated moderate for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters.

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