Emily Long is a freelance writer based in Salt Lake City. After graduating from Duke University, she spent several years reporting on the federal workforce for Government Executive, a publication of Atlantic Media Company, in Washington, D.C. She has ...

The official Wordle answer for May 30 (#1806) is SMILE. If your strategy included testing the liquid consonant L or the nasal M in your second or third row, you likely dodged the rhyming trap and landed on the solution.