Wordle is fun to play and to share your results with your friends, but the brainteaser isn’t always easy to solve.
Wordle’s inventor, Josh Wardle, initially created the game in as an activity for him and his partner to enjoy during the COVID-19 pandemic. After releasing it to the public in October 2021, he sold it to The New York Times. In 2022, Wardle spoke with Newsweek about its viral success.
“The response has been absolutely incredible. At the start of November, only 90 people were playing Wordle. As of January 9, there are now two million people involved with the puzzle on a daily basis,” Wardle said at the time. “It just keeps growing and growing.”
He added that “the game won’t allow you to binge or get addicted.”
“In general, I’m pretty wary of apps that want to consume all of your time and maximize engagement like that. I just don’t think that stuff’s very nice to do to other people quite frankly.”
In fact, “most people can solve a Wordle puzzle in about five minutes and then forget about it,” Wardle said.
Keep scrolling for a refresher on how to play the game. Plus, read Newsweek‘s clues and answer to Tuesday’s puzzle.
How To Play Wordle
Luckily, the rules of the game are rather simple.
Players must figure out the mystery five-letter within six attempts. They are helped by a color-coded system, with green tiles telling players they got a letter correct and it’s in the correct place, and yellow showing that the letter is correct but is in the wrong spot. A gray tile, meanwhile, indicates that the letter does not appear in the word at all.
Users do not need a New York Times subscription to play and it is not timed.
Wordle #1,368, Clues for Tuesday, March 18
Newsweek‘s hints for today’s Wordle are:
Hint #1: The word starts with the letter “T.”
Hint #2: There are no repeated letters.
Hint #3: A synonym is “clock.”
Hint #4: There are two vowels.
Hint #5: The answer rhymes with “climber.”
Wordle #1,368, Answer for Tuesday, March 18
The answer to today’s puzzleis “Timer.”
Merriam-Webster defines the term as “one that times: such as timepiece, especially: a stopwatch for timing races” and “timekeeper: a device (such as a clock) that indicates by a sound the end of an interval of time or that starts or stops a device at predetermined times.”
Were you able to guess today’s word? Excellent job if so! But don’t sweat it if you didn’t. Wordle is released at midnight in your local time zone, which means you will get another chance to play on Wednesday.
For now, why not try one of these other popular word-based games?
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