Are you finding today’s Wordle puzzle difficult but don’t want to give up? Look no further because Newsweek has compiled a few hints and tips to get you over the finishing line.
The viral game, invented by Josh Wardle, a New York-based software engineer, is simple to follow. Players must guess one five-letter word per day and have six attempts to guess it. If a correct letter is in the right place, the tile will go green. If it is in the wrong place, it turns yellow. If it is not in the word at all, the tile goes gray.
Wardle invented it because he wanted a game “for me and my partner to enjoy” and refined it during the coronavirus lockdowns of 2020.
It then went public on November 1, 2021, and had 300,000 users on January 2, 2022, according to figures by Statista. The New York Times then purchased the game for an undisclosed seven-figure fee.
Speaking to Newsweek, Erhan Aslan, an expert in linguistics who teaches at the University of Reading in the U.K., provided some advice for Wordle players.
Aslan said: “One thing that I think is important in this game is the starting word chosen. Starting off with words that include commonly used vowels, for example, e and a, consonants such as r and t, and sound sequences might be helpful. Choosing a word that starts with q, z, j, or x, for instance, may not be the best choice.
“As you get more feedback after a few guesses, users need to draw on some knowledge of phonics to narrow down or eliminate some words that they might be thinking,” Aslan added. “For example, if the second letter of the target word is l (indicated by green) and the player feels that the word starts with a consonant, they will need to know that there are only a few consonant cluster possibilities (such as bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl).”
The answer to today’s Wordle is revealed further down this article, so scroll with care.
Wordle #1,136, Clues for Monday, July 29
Hint #1: The answer contains two vowels.
Hint #2: There are no repeated letters.
Hint #3: The word is an adjective.
Hint #4: The word has positive connotations.
Hint #5: The word is made up of two syllables.
Wordle #1,136, Answer for Monday, July 29
The answer to today’s Wordle is “super” which means “of high grade or quality,” “very large or powerful” or “exhibiting the characteristics of its type to an extreme or excessive degree” according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Wordle is released every day at midnight in your local time zone. Newsweek will be back with another round of hints and tips for each new game.
While you wait for the next game, why not give the geography guessing game Worldle or other word puzzles a try?
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