Wordle Answers — Today's Word, Daily Hints & Full Archive
Every Wordle solution ever published, plus daily hints, strategy guides, and the full puzzle archive. We do not spoil the answer here — click through to each day's page when you're ready to reveal.
Welcome to the Wordle Answers hub
GameAnswers.com publishes the full Wordle answer for every puzzle the New York Times releases — every single morning, and going all the way back to Wordle #0 on June 19, 2021. Whether you're trying to keep a 600-day streak alive, recover a missed puzzle from last week, or just settle a bet about Tuesday's word, this is the page to bookmark. We have the today's puzzle, hints in case you only want a nudge, the complete archive grouped by month, and a long-form strategy guide further down the page.
One thing up front: we do not spoil the answer on this hub. Every Wordle solution lives behind a one-click reveal on its own date page. That way you can browse the archive, share this URL with friends, and pull up the latest puzzle without worrying that the word will jump out at you before you're ready to see it.
The latest Wordle puzzles
The seven most recent Wordle puzzles we've indexed. Tap any card to open that day's answer page — hints first, full reveal below.
What is Wordle?
Wordle is a once-per-day, single-solution word puzzle. Every player around the world is given six attempts to guess the same five-letter English word, and after each guess the game tells you which letters are correct, which letters are in the word but in the wrong place, and which letters are not in the word at all. That feedback is encoded in the now-iconic green, yellow, and grey tile pattern that has become a fixture of group chats and morning routines since early 2022.
Wordle's genius is its restraint. There are no levels, no power-ups, no in-app purchases, no leaderboards, no social graph, and no streak gates. There is exactly one new puzzle every twenty-four hours and exactly six guesses to crack it. Once you're done you're done — either you got it, or you didn't, and either way you wait until tomorrow. That radical scarcity is the reason the game went from a personal hobby project to a New York Times property in under six months: it asks for almost nothing from you and rewards you with a tiny, shareable little ritual.
If you've never played, head straight to the official Wordle page on the New York Times site. The game is free to play in any modern browser without an account.
How to play Wordle
The full rules of Wordle fit on the back of a napkin. Here they are:
- Open Wordle on the New York Times site. The puzzle is free, no account required.
- Type any five-letter English word as your first guess and press Enter.
- Read the feedback on each tile: G green means correct letter in the correct position. Y yellow means correct letter but wrong position. X grey means the letter is not in the word.
- Refine your next guess using that information. Stuck letters stay, eliminated letters get crossed off, yellows go somewhere new.
- Repeat for up to six guesses. Solve in fewer for bragging rights.
- Share your result. The Share button copies a spoiler-free emoji grid of your tiles so friends can see how you did without seeing the word.
The puzzle resets at midnight local time on your device, which is why someone in Tokyo and someone in San Francisco see the same word but on slightly different real-world dates. Get it wrong on all six guesses and the game shows you the answer; your daily streak resets to zero, but the world keeps turning.
A short history of Wordle
Wordle was created by Josh Wardle, a Welsh software engineer based in Brooklyn, in 2021. Wardle had previously built two well-known social experiments at Reddit — Place, the giant collaborative pixel canvas, and The Button, the ticking countdown anyone could press once. Both used the same trick: a single shared object that the entire internet got to play with for a limited window of time.
For Wordle, Wardle borrowed the structure of two earlier games. The visual feedback was lifted from the 1980s American TV game show Lingo, in which contestants guessed five-letter words with similar coloured-tile feedback. The mechanic of narrowing down a hidden answer through repeated guesses traces back even further to Mastermind, the 1970s pegboard board game. Wardle's contribution was to fuse the two with a daily-puzzle schedule and a deliberately minimal interface — no scoring, no monetisation, no friction.
The game was originally a private gift to Wardle's partner, Palak Shah, who loved word games. He released it publicly in October 2021. For its first month it had a few dozen players. Then, in late December 2021, Wardle added the shareable emoji grid — the now-instantly-recognisable green and yellow squares — and the game went viral on Twitter almost overnight. By the first week of January 2022 it had over 300,000 daily players; two weeks later that number had passed two million.
On January 31, 2022, the New York Times announced it had acquired Wordle for a sum reported as being in the low seven figures. The Times moved the game to nytimes.com/games/wordle, kept it free to play, and brought it under the editorial wing of the rest of the Games portfolio (Crossword, Spelling Bee, Mini Crossword, and the eventually-added Connections and Strands). Wardle has said publicly that he was relieved to hand the game over — he had no appetite for running a viral product on top of his day job at Reddit.
Since the acquisition, the Times has continued to publish a new puzzle every day, has added accessibility features, a stats screen, and a streak tracker, and quietly cleaned up the word list. The original Wordle answer list was a hand-picked set of around 2,309 words. After the acquisition the Times pruned a handful of solutions that were judged either too obscure or potentially offensive in a North American context — words like AGORA and PUPAL were edited out, and the game is now edited by Times staffer Tracy Bennett.
Wordle strategy & the best starting words
Most regular Wordle players settle on a personal opening word, but if you're looking to optimise, the maths is well-studied. The goal of your first guess isn't to get the answer — it's to eliminate as many possibilities as you can. That means front-loading common letters and covering as many vowels as the five-letter constraint allows.
The most useful letters in English five-letter words
Roughly ranked, the letters that appear most often in valid Wordle solutions are E, A, R, O, T, L, I, S, N, and U. The first guess that gives you the most information is one that packs as many of those into five slots as possible — ideally with at least three vowels, and ideally with letters in their most common positions.
Battle-tested opening words
The most-recommended openers among serious Wordle players are CRANE, SLATE, TRACE, CRATE, and SLANT. MIT and other researchers have run information-theoretic simulations and consistently put CRANE near the top: it covers three of the most common consonants and two of the most common vowels in their most common positions. Other widely-loved openers include ADIEU and AUDIO (four vowels in one go), RAISE, ROAST, STARE, and OUIJA.
The two-word opener
If you're willing to spend two guesses gathering information before you commit to solving, the so-called “two-word opener” is a powerful trick. Pair a vowel-heavy opener with a consonant-heavy second guess. Popular pairings include ADIEU + CLOTH, STARE + DOILY, and SLATE + CORNY. Together those two words cover roughly fourteen distinct letters, which usually leaves only a handful of candidate solutions.
Mid-game decisions
Once you have some yellow or green feedback, the temptation is to lock down your discoveries and keep solving with what you know. Resist that urge for one turn longer than feels right. If you have two greens and a yellow and there are still nine plausible answers, throwing a fresh consonant-heavy word into guess three can collapse those nine to one in a single move — saving you guesses for actual solutions. This is the so-called “Wordle information vs guess” trade-off and it's the single biggest skill that separates 3s and 4s from consistent 2s.
Wordle Hard Mode
Wordle has an optional Hard Mode that you can toggle in the in-game settings. In Hard Mode, every yellow letter you've revealed must be used in your next guess, and every green letter must stay in its confirmed position. You can't spend a guess on “information gathering” once you've been given clues — you must use what you know.
Hard Mode rewards different skills. It punishes the two-word opener strategy and rewards lateral thinking when a tricky letter pattern emerges. If you're comfortable solving in 4 or fewer guesses on standard mode, it's worth flipping on for a week. The streak rules are the same, but the satisfaction of a Hard Mode 3 is genuinely sweeter.
Common mistakes that cost you guesses
The fastest way to improve your average is to stop making the same five or six unforced errors that almost every casual player makes. In rough order of how often they show up:
- Reusing eliminated letters. If a letter has gone grey, banish it from every future guess. Even a single repeat reveals nothing and wastes a turn.
- Ignoring the possibility of doubled letters. Solutions like BUDDY, TOOTH, and ESSAY are not rare. If you have three letters and they don't form a sensible word, double one up.
- Forgetting that Y can act as a vowel. Words ending in -Y, -LY, and -RY trip people up because the typical vowel-search ignores Y.
- Locking onto a pattern too early. Three greens and a familiar shape feels like a near-win, but it can also be a trap. If two letters could plausibly fit a slot, use a guess to disambiguate before betting on one.
- Solving with the same word twice. If guess three returned all grey, do not re-type its component letters in guess four. Hit ground that's actually new.
- Not factoring in NYT editorial taste. Solutions never end in -S (no plurals), are never proper nouns, are never offensive, and are never archaic. If your best guess is HEINZ, it's not the answer.
Wordle variants & spin-offs
Wordle's extraordinary growth in early 2022 spawned an entire ecosystem of variants. Some were quick parodies, some have become daily habits in their own right. The most popular include:
- Quordle — four Wordle grids at once, nine guesses to solve all four.
- Octordle — eight grids, thirteen guesses. The Hard Mode of the spin-off world.
- Sedecordle — sixteen grids in parallel. Brutal.
- Heardle — the same daily mechanic but with a song intro instead of a word. Acquired by Spotify in 2022.
- Worldle — guess the country from its silhouette, with distance hints.
- Globle — a country-guessing variant where each guess shows how “warm” you are geographically.
- Letter Boxed & Spelling Bee — the NYT's other word puzzles that long predate Wordle but exploded alongside it.
- Connections & Strands — the post-Wordle NYT Games launches, riding the daily-puzzle wave.
- Hello Wordl & Wordle Unlimited — unlimited-play knock-offs for when you can't wait until midnight.
- Crosswordle, Squardle, Lewdle, Sweardle — the long tail of community-made variants.
If you're a Wordle person you almost certainly play at least two of the above. Browse the homepage for daily hints across all of them.
Frequently asked questions
What time does Wordle reset?
Wordle uses your device's local time and rolls over to a new puzzle at midnight. There's no global cutoff — someone in Tokyo will start tomorrow's puzzle about seventeen hours before someone in Los Angeles.
Is every Wordle the same word for every player?
Yes. There is exactly one Wordle answer per day, shared by every player in the world. That's what makes the shareable emoji grid work.
How many guesses do I get?
Six. If you don't solve in six the game shows you the answer, and your streak resets to zero.
What's the best Wordle starting word?
Most information-theory simulations land on CRANE, SLATE, or TRACE. ADIEU and AUDIO are the favourite vowel-heavy openers if you prefer to clear vowels first.
Can I play yesterday's Wordle?
Not on the official New York Times site — yesterday's puzzle disappears at midnight. But every Wordle that's ever been released is archived here on GameAnswers.com so you can always read about the answer and what it meant.
Why was a Wordle answer removed?
Since the NYT took over, the editorial team has occasionally swapped out solutions that were judged too obscure, archaic, or culturally insensitive. The most-cited example is AGORA, which was removed shortly after the acquisition.
Does Wordle have an app?
Wordle is part of the New York Times Games app on iOS and Android, but it's also playable for free in any browser at nytimes.com/games/wordle without downloading anything.
How do I share my Wordle result without spoiling the word?
Use the in-game Share button — it copies a coloured-tile grid showing how many guesses you took, with no letters revealed. That's the standard format you see in social media and group chats.
Wordle archive
Every Wordle we've indexed, grouped by month with the most recent first. Click any date to see that day's hints and a one-tap reveal of the answer.
June 2026 (25)
May 2026 (31)
April 2026 (30)
March 2026 (31)
February 2026 (28)
January 2026 (31)
December 2025 (31)
November 2025 (30)
October 2025 (31)
September 2025 (30)
August 2025 (31)
July 2025 (31)
June 2025 (30)
May 2025 (10)
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