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SPEAKER 1: OK, our sixth
puzzle of this year

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was called Catewordle, based
on the famous Wordle game.

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So for this one, we had maybe
about a thousand or so correct

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answers and 513 good guesses,
but not correct ones.

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So let's have our friends at Meta walk
us through the solution to Catewordle.

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JAMES WU: Awesome.

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So this is James here
again at Catewordle.

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I worked this puzzle.

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I'm glad a lot of you seem to like it.

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So let's just go over the solution now.

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So the first step of this puzzle--

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as with the previous
puzzle that I wrote--

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starts with a bunch of crossword clues.

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You'll see a lot of
different Wordle things,

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but there's at least one
thing that you can first grab,

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which is a hopefully straightforward
crossword clue in each of these.

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The first one was weight
of a liter of water.

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The next one was the
Roman god of the sea.

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And you can see the solutions
to these on the right here.

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So we have kilogram, Neptune, green,
North America, fire, gluttony, taste,

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and happy.

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And this puzzle-- when we wrote it--
was based around Wordle, as you can see,

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which was an extremely popular
word game that came out right when

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we were writing this puzzle.

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And you'll see that
each of these Wordles

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consists of a single crossword
clue with the correct answer

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that we've now solved and a bunch of
Wordle answers that have Wordle clues,

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like green, gray, and yellow attached
to them, similar to the Wordle game.

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And there are different lengths.

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But there's nothing
that really gives you

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any hint as to what those other guesses
of this Wordle puzzle could have been.

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Luckily, the title of the
puzzle was Catewordle,

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and maybe you would notice that-- for
example-- for the North America answer

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with "Canada and Mexico are part
of it" that one of the Wordle clues

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was very, very close to North America.

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In fact, it ended with "th" "America."

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And there's not very many things
that end with "th America" that

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aren't South America.

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So when I noticed that South
America fits in the Wordle clue

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and is green exactly where it should
be, and is the last one of this one.

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And if you do this for all
of the ones in this section,

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you'll notice that they all
seem to fit a certain category.

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So you might be able
to deduce that once you

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have South America, that
maybe another one could

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be one of the other continents,
like Asia and Africa.

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And it turns out that each of these
Wordle answers in North America

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and in each of these matches
with the same category

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as the original crossword clue.

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So I give two examples here
for Africa, Antarctica, Asia,

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Oceania, and South America.

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A lot of you actually asked
questions about Oceania and Australia

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being potentially one of the words.

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We choose actually
Oceania for this puzzle.

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There is some debate, depending on where
on Earth you are, which one of those

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is the actual continent.

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But either way, you end up with all
of these words from these categories.

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For fire, you might notice air
and Earth as the four elements.

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And if you do this for all of them,
you'll see that each one of them

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actually has a list of categories.

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So kilogram was the SI base units.

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Neptune was the planets
of the solar system.

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We did not include Pluto because it's
been long enough that we've considered

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it not part of the solar system.

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I'm sorry, Pluto.

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Green being the colors of the rainbow.

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North America being the continent,
fire being the four elements,

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gluttony being the seven deadly
sins, taste being the five senses--

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so hearing, sight, smell--

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and happy being the list of
Snow White's seven dwarves.

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Now, each of these
Wordle puzzles also came

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with another clue, which is that
it said, Wordle six out of seven,

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Wordle four out of
five, three out of four.

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So usually, the number
next to the Wordle--

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if you've ever tweeted out or shared
a Wordle-- is the number of guesses

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it took to answer the Wordle puzzle.

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So you'll often see when people tweet
it out, "Wordle five out of six,"

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for example.

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But here, the hint here
was that each one of them

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was off by one in that there's exactly
one of each of these categories

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that was missing from each
of the Wordle puzzles.

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So if you were to pick out
the word that was missing

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from each of the
categories-- so a second

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was the SI unit that was missing
from the Wordle answer with kilogram.

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Jupiter was missing from the planets.

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Blue was missing from the rainbow.

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Europe was missing from the continents.

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You get another list of words.

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Now, the final step here is now that
you have a second list of missing words

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and the original Wordle
answer is to see what

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would have happened if you had
guessed the missing word on this word.

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If you do that and you
overlap each of the missing

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words with the original
Wordle answer, you'll

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see that they share exactly
one letter in the green space.

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So kilogram shares the
letter "o" with second.

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Neptune shows the
letter "P" with Jupiter.

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And so on.

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And if you were to do this
with all of the words,

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you end up being able to extract one
letter from each of the puzzle answers

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and end up with the answer "operetta,"
which is the answer to Catewordle.

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