It’s time for your guide to today’s Wordle answer, featuring my commentary on the latest puzzle, plus a selection of hints designed to help you keep your streak going.
Don’t think you need any clues for Wordle today? No problem, just skip to my daily column. But remember: failure in this game is only ever six guesses away.
Want more word-based fun? My Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game, which remains the best of all the main Wordle alternatives.
SPOILER WARNING: Today’s Wordle answer and hints are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.
Wordle hints (game #942) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has vowels in two places*.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
Wordle hints (game #942) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is C.
C is a very common starting letter in Wordle – in fact, it’s the second most common of all, behind only S.
Wordle hints (game #942) – clue #3 – repeated letters
Does today’s Wordle have any repeated letters?
• There are no repeated letters in today’s Wordle.
Repeated letters are quite common in the game, with 748 of the 2,309 Wordle answers containing one. However, it’s still more likely that a Wordle doesn’t have one.
Wordle hints (game #942) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is T.
T is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only E and Y are more likely in that position.
Wordle hints (game #942) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #942.
- Today’s Wordle answer is a place of sentencing, sport or royalty.
If you just want to know today’s Wordle answer now, simply scroll down – but I’d always recommend trying to solve it on your own first. We’ve got lots of Wordle tips and tricks to help you, including a guide to the best Wordle start words.
If you don’t want to know today’s answer then DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER BECAUSE IT IS PRINTED BELOW. So don’t say you weren’t warned!
Today’s Wordle answer (game #942)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #942) is… COURT.
Recent Wordles not been easy enough for you? Then you’ll love this one.
COURT has an average score of just 3.2, according to the NYT’s all-knowing helper tool WordleBot. That places it right near the top of the list of easiest Wordles ever; it’s the simplest so far in 2024 and a mere seven puzzles in history* have had a lower average**.
Why so simple? I’m going to attribute this one directly to the best Wordle starting words. TRACE, WordleBot’s new favorite, left only one answer, as did CRATE (its third fave). Several others, including STARE, reduced the numbers to single or low-double figures. And that’s all there is to it.
Of course there’s also the question of why those start words were so successful – but a simple look at the letters in COURT should tell you what’s going on here. I would love to share some fascinating insight that nobody else has thought of, but there’s really no mystery. It’s merely a case of COURT having five very common letters, and of all of them being in common places.
It’s a shame, then, that my randomly chosen start word today was GUESS, which contains only one of those five. WordleBot said it was a decent opening word, but it still left 127 options, so I’ll have to take its word for that. Still, I appreciate how apt it was for this game.
I didn’t attempt anything too complicated with my second guess, reasoning that I should just play the most common letters left, or thereabouts. In the end I went with TRAIN, and got very lucky – it gave me two yellow letters and reduced my options to just two: COURT and BLURT.
I didn’t know that at the time, though, and only spotted the first of those – which could have come back to haunt me. Fortunately, it didn’t – I played COURT next and scored a nice 3/6.
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*Based on all of those I have scores for, currently numbering 540. **It’s also tied with six others that had a 3.2 average.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #941)
In a different time zone where it’s still Tuesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #941, too.
- Wordle yesterday had a vowel in one place.
* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was B.
B is a very, very common starting letter in Wordle. In fact, it’s the third most common overall, behind only S and C.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
Repeated letters are quite common in the game, with 748 of the 2,309 Wordle answers containing one. However, it’s still more likely that a Wordle doesn’t have one.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was D.
D is a fairly common letter to end a Wordle answer: it’s the eighth most likely to be in that position in a solution.
Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #941.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a light color.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #941)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #941) was… BLOND.
For the third day in a row we have a Wordle that sits comfortably in the not-too-bad range. WordleBot says BLOND has an average score of 3.7, compared to 3.8 for the previous two games, and it holds no particular traps for the unwary (or wary) Wordler.
I suppose there is one possible trap – in that some people might think BLOND is spelled with an E on the end. And it is – kind of, because convention has it that BLOND refers to male hair (or the hair of a male) and BLONDE to female. Or rather, it sometimes does, because in the US BLOND is often the preferred term in general, whereas in the UK you’re far more likely to see it as BLONDE. Not confusing at all, right?
That aside, it shouldn’t be too tricky. All five letters are common, B maybe slightly less so – but not when it’s at the start of an answer, where it’s third most common after S and C. That said, B doesn’t feature in many of the best Wordle starting words, and neither does D – which will have reduced the average a little.
Indeed, that’s evident from a browse of WordleBot’s report, which states that TRACE left 343 possible answers, as did CRATE and CARTE. SLATE was a little better, at 50, but top dog status (among the 20 best words) went to CRONE, which left only 10 words.
My start word today was CREEK, and that was rather less successful than any of those; it drew a blank, meaning I still had 782 possible solutions to whittle down. No, I did not score a 2/6 today!
Instead, it was a second 4/6 in a row, which is to be expected in those circumstances. My second guess was SAINT – chosen because CREEK had only included one vowel, E, so I wanted both A and I in it. S, T and N were three of the most common consonants left to me. WordleBot said it would have chosen the same word, and it performed well, cutting down those 782 options to a mere 17.
The task for my third guess was to reduce that to one; there was no way I was going to start shooting for the answer at this stage, despite the fact that I’d identified most of them, including – yet again – the horrible HOUND/MOUND/FOUND/BOUND trap.
So for that reason I left out the already-green N, instead playing GOURD, which contained the final two vowels. There were probably better choices – WordleBot suggested PLUMB – but it did the trick, giving me a green D and yellow O and leaving a single solution, BLOND.
Wordle answers: The past 50
I’ve been playing Wordle every day for more than a year now and have tracked all of the previous answers so I can help you improve your game. Here are the last 50 solutions starting with yesterday’s answer, or check out my past Wordle answers page for the full list.
- Wordle #941, Tuesday 16 January: BLOND
- Wordle #940, Monday 15 January: LUNCH
- Wordle #939, Sunday 14 January: DOING
- Wordle #938, Saturday 13 January: HEARD
- Wordle #937, Friday 12 January: ROUTE
- Wordle #936, Thursday 11 January: BRIEF
- Wordle #935, Wednesday 10 January: THREW
- Wordle #934, Tuesday 9 January: LINER
- Wordle #933, Monday 8 January: FINAL
- Wordle #932, Sunday 7 January: STONY
- Wordle #931, Saturday 6 January: CABLE
- Wordle #930, Friday 5 January: LUNGE
- Wordle #929, Thursday 4 January: SCANT
- Wordle #928, Wednesday 3 January: TWIRL
- Wordle #927, Tuesday 2 January: AGING
- Wordle #926, Monday 1 January: MURAL
- Wordle #925, Sunday 31 December: SALTY
- Wordle #924, Saturday 30 December: THREE
- Wordle #923, Friday 29 December: CHILD
- Wordle #922, Thursday 28 December: LEARN
- Wordle #921, Wednesday 27 December: DAISY
- Wordle #920, Tuesday 26 December: PHONE
- Wordle #919, Monday 25 December: EVOKE
- Wordle #918, Sunday 24 December: GRACE
- Wordle #917, Saturday 23 December: SLOPE
- Wordle #916, Friday 22 December: TOUCH
- Wordle #915, Thursday 21 December: BUILT
- Wordle #914, Wednesday 20 December: SMALL
- Wordle #913, Tuesday 19 December: TABLE
- Wordle #912, Monday 18 December: FUNNY
- Wordle #911, Sunday 17 December: BACON
- Wordle #910, Saturday 16 December: GLOBE
- Wordle #909, Friday 15 December: TOPIC
- Wordle #908, Thursday 14 December: WOULD
- Wordle #907, Wednesday 13 December: SPENT
- Wordle #906, Tuesday 12 December: THESE
- Wordle #905, Monday 11 December: HOUSE
- Wordle #904, Sunday 10 December: CHAIN
- Wordle #903, Saturday 9 December: SHIFT
- Wordle #902, Friday 8 December: SHARP
- Wordle #901, Thursday 7 December: SLEEP
- Wordle #900, Wednesday 6 December: WOMAN
- Wordle #899, Tuesday 5 December: YOUNG
- Wordle #898, Monday 4 December: WORST
- Wordle #897, Sunday 3 December: ADAPT
- Wordle #896, Saturday 2 December: GENRE
- Wordle #895, Friday 1 December: TAKEN
- Wordle #894, Thursday 30 November: RESIN
- Wordle #893, Wednesday 29 November: SUSHI
- Wordle #892, Tuesday 28 November: SCOPE
What is Wordle?
If you’re on this page then you almost certainly know what Wordle is already, and indeed have probably been playing it for a while. And even if you’ve not been playing it, you must surely have heard of it by now, because it’s the viral word game phenomenon that took the world by storm last year and is still going strong in 2024.
We’ve got a full guide to the game in our What is Wordle page, but if you just want a refresher then here are the basics.
What is Wordle?
Wordle challenges you to guess a new five-letter word each day. You get six guesses, with each one revealing a little more information. If one of the letters in your guess is in the answer and in the right place, it turns green. If it’s in the answer but in the wrong place, it turns yellow. And if it’s not in the answer at all it turns gray. Simple, eh?
It’s played online via the Wordle website or the New York Times’ Crossword app (iOS / Android), and is entirely free.
Crucially, the answer is the same for everyone each day, meaning that you’re competing against the rest of the world, rather than just against yourself or the game. The puzzle then resets each day at midnight in your local time, giving you a new challenge, and the chance to extend your streak.
What are the Wordle rules?
The rules of Wordle are pretty straightforward, but with a couple of curveballs thrown in for good measure.
1. Letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.
2. Letters that are in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.
3. Letters that are not in the answer turn gray.
4. Answers are never plural.
5. Letters can appear more than once. So if your guess includes two of one letter, they may both turn yellow, both turn green, or one could be yellow and the other green.
6. Each guess must be a valid word in Wordle’s dictionary. You can’t guess ABCDE, for instance.
7. You do not have to include correct letters in subsequent guesses unless you play on Hard mode.
8. You have six guesses to solve the Wordle.
9. You must complete the daily Wordle before midnight in your timezone.
10. All answers are drawn from Wordle’s list of 2,309 solutions. However…
11. Wordle will accept a wider pool of words as guesses – some 10,000 of them. For instance, you can guess a plural such as WORDS. It definitely won’t be right (see point 4 above), but Wordle will accept it as a guess.
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