Don’t panic: today’s Wordle is a hell of a lot easier than yesterday’s!
If you were one of the many people who lost your streak yesterday on one of the hardest Wordles of the year, that may not be much consolation, but it’s something. Dust yourself down, pick yourself up and get that streak started again.
Fancy some Wordle hints before you begin? Then read on for a selection of clues to guide you in the right direction. And if you don’t have time to play at all, you can see the answer, too. Want more word-based fun? My Quordle today page contains hints and answers for that game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about today’s Wordle answers are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.
Wordle hints (game #676) – clue #1 – Vowels
How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?
• Wordle today has two vowels*.
* 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 #676) – clue #2 – first letter
What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?
• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is M.
M is a middling letter when it comes to starting a word. It sits 10th in the rankings, with 107 occurrences in the 2,309 answers.
Wordle hints (game #676) – 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 #676) – clue #4 – ending letter
What letter does today’s Wordle end with?
• The last letter in today’s Wordle is O.
O is a middling ending letter. It ranks 12th in this regard, and finishes 58 Wordle answers in total.
Wordle hints (game #676) – clue #5 – last chance
Still looking for Wordle hints today? Don’t worry, I’ll give you one more for game #676.
- Today’s Wordle answer moves below the surface.
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 #676)
Today’s Wordle answer (game #676) is… METRO.
There’s a temptation to think of this one as easy, because compared to yesterday’s (see below) it really is. But taken in isolation, it’s more ‘standard’ than ‘easy’. After all, WordleBot, the NYT’s AI helper, says it has an average score of 4.0 – and you don’t get any more ‘standard’ than that.
In fact, it’s pretty standard fare in all regards. It has two vowels, and three consonants; it contains four letters in the top five most common list, and one outside the top 10; it’s a well known word, but not necessarily one you’d immediately think of; and it uses an O where you might not expect it. In short, it has most of the ingredients for a simple solve, but throws in a couple of complications that make it just challenging enough to keep you on your toes.
Admittedly, I may have found today’s Wordle simpler than most people will have, because my choice of the best Wordle starting words really helped me out.
I’ve been using STARE pretty much since I started playing nearly 500 games ago, with just a few brief flirtations with other words to keep things fresh. Today, it left me with just 11 possible solutions, according to WordleBot – a great result compared to the 241 options faced by anyone who played ADIEU, or the 114 solutions open to those of you went with SLATE. TRACE (36), CRATE and CARTE (both 48) were not too bad, but STARE was the clear winner today.
I didn’t realize that at the time of course, but I knew that with a green R, and yellow T and E, I was in a good place. I noted down a few potential answers: ENTRY, RETRY, METRO, OVERT, INERT, EXERT and PETRI. I considered TWERP and TWERK but figured they wouldn’t be answers. I dismissed RETRO as a past Wordle answer that I recalled.
That left me with seven good options, plus a couple of backups; few enough that I could risk a guess rather than further narrowing it down. I went with ENTRY, which WordleBot liked; it preferred RETRO, but I knew that wasn’t the solution.
ENTRY wasn’t the answer either, but it worked well enough by confirming the T and ruling out several options. In fact, I had just two left now: METRO and PETRI. The latter wasn’t certain to be on the Wordle answers list, so I played the former and scored a nice 3/6. I’m happy with that after yesterday’s mental exertions.
How did you do today? Send me an email and let me know.
Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #675)
In a different time zone where it’s still Tuesday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #675, too.
- Wordle yesterday had two vowels.
- The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was J.
- There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.
- The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was R.
- Yesterday’s Wordle answer is a real laugh.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #675)
Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #675) was… JOKER.
Right then, there’s a lot to unpick here. WordleBot, the NYT’s ever-helpful, ever-patronizing AI tool, says people are solving today’s puzzle in 5.4 guesses. That makes it the equal hardest word we’ve had since last February, when RIPER (game #613) was the answer. And we all remember how tough that one was. Suddenly the likes of HOUND and even BORAX don’t seem quite so difficult, eh?
The problem is our old friend the ER answer, coupled here with a couple of uncommon letters in J and K. The former is the least common letter in the entire game, while K ranks a little way ahead of it in 20th. There’s really no shame if you struggled to locate those two today.
You won’t have had any help from the best Wordle starting words, either. SLATE, WordleBot’s favorite, left 329 possible solutions. My pick, STARE, left 181. The most popular choice, ADIEU, left 155. CRANE (187), SLANT (530), TRACE (171), CARTE (163), CRATE (171)… none of them were any real use here.
Your second guess will therefore have had to work really hard. If, like me, you were fairly sure it was an ER answer then you’ll have had an advantage: I played LINED, which enabled me to confirm the E in its position, while leaving out the R so I could test another letter. WordleBot said it was a “terrific choice” and awarded me 97/99 for skill; but a luck score of just 12 told the real story here, and I still had 38 possible answers left.
With A and I ruled out, I was reasonably sure this would be an -O-ER answer. -U-ER is a lot less common and there also aren’t that many -E-ER words. But I couldn’t be sure, so I decided to play FORUM to confirm it either way; if neither the O nor U changed color, I’d know it was almost certainly an -E-ER answer, such as FEWER or FEVER.
Playing the R in the middle was also a deliberate choice, to eliminate words such as BORER, CORER and PURER. None of them should have been acceptable as a Wordle answer, but then we could say the same about PARER and RIPER…
FORUM confirmed my fears: this was an -O-ER answer, which meant I was going to have to rule out a lot of consonants before finding the right ones.
WordleBot said there were now 13 possible solutions, and I already had a list of possibles, made for previous ER games: BOXER, COVER, COWER, HOVER, JOKER, ROGER, ROVER and ROWER. There were also a few others that fit, but that didn’t seem likely to be answers: COOER, COPER, COYER, HOPER, VOWER, ROPER and BOWER; the latter two were possibles, WordleBot said.
The ‘bot also included a few other I had ruled out as past Wordle answers: POKER, POWER and WOOER.
That might not look like too many answers, but the problem was that between them they used 11 distinct consonants – B, C, G, H, J, K, P, V, W, X and Y – while four also had a second R in there. Danger lay ahead if I didn’t play sensibly: if I guessed COVER, for instance, and neither the C or V changed color, I’d still have had seven options left and just two guesses remaining.
I needed another guess just to narrow things down, then, and WHACK finally did the job. The K turned yellow and in the process left me with just one possible solution, JOKER. WordleBot thought it was two, but I knew POKER had been a previous answer, so played JOKER fairly confidently for my 5/6.
Amazingly, WordleBot only scored a 6/6 itself – but it won’t be the only one to do that today. Phew!
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 #675, Tuesday 25 April: JOKER
- Wordle #674, Monday 24 April: DITTO
- Wordle #673, Sunday 23 April: UNZIP
- Wordle #672, Saturday 22 April: BROKE
- Wordle #671, Friday 21 April: KAYAK
- Wordle #670, Thursday 20 April: PLATE
- Wordle #669, Wednesday 19 April: THUMP
- Wordle #668, Tuesday 18 April: HOUND
- Wordle #667, Monday 17 April: WHIFF
- Wordle #666, Sunday 16 April: DWELT
- Wordle #665, Saturday 15 April: AGONY
- Wordle #664, Friday 14 April: THIEF
- Wordle #663, Thursday 13 April: CARAT
- Wordle #662, Wednesday 12 April: BORAX
- Wordle #661, Tuesday 11 April: QUALM
- Wordle #660, Monday 10 April: UNDER
- Wordle #659, Sunday 9 April: SNAFU
- Wordle #658, Saturday 8 April: LEDGE
- Wordle #657, Friday 7 April: LOCUS
- Wordle #656, Thursday 6 April: LEAFY
- Wordle #655, Wednesday 5 April: SMASH
- Wordle #654, Tuesday 4 April: RATIO
- Wordle #653, Monday 3 April: FLORA
- Wordle #652, Sunday 2 April: STOCK
- Wordle #651, Saturday 1 April: MARCH
- Wordle #650, Friday 31 March: EVERY
- Wordle #649, Thursday 30 March: BREAD
- Wordle #648, Wednesday 29 March: BESET
- Wordle #647, Tuesday 28 March: HURRY
- Wordle #646, Monday 27 March: GUANO
- Wordle #645, Sunday 26 March: UNTIE
- Wordle #644, Saturday 25 March: VOTER
- Wordle #643, Friday 24 March: GROUT
- Wordle #642, Thursday 23 March: STAID
- Wordle #641, Wednesday 22 March: DUVET
- Wordle #640, Tuesday 21 March: TOUGH
- Wordle #639, Monday 20 March: GLOVE
- Wordle #638, Sunday 19 March: CREDO
- Wordle #637, Saturday 18 March: YACHT
- Wordle #636, Friday 17 March: MEALY
- Wordle #635, Thursday 16 March: CIDER
- Wordle #634, Wednesday 15 March: SWEEP
- Wordle #633, Tuesday 14 March: SURLY
- Wordle #632, Monday 13 March: BLAME
- Wordle #631, Sunday 12 March: BIRTH
- Wordle #630, Saturday 11 March: EMAIL
- Wordle #629, Friday 10 March: REVEL
- Wordle #628, Thursday 9 March: WHERE
- Wordle #627, Wednesday 8 March: REGAL
- Wordle #626, Tuesday 7 March: HORSE
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 2023.
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.