Wordle Answer for Today, March 13, 2024 | Lifehacker


If you’re in search of the Wordle reply for March 13, 2024 learn on. We’ll share some clues, ideas, and methods, and eventually the answer. Today’s puzzle is medium troublesome; I acquired it in 4. Beware, there are spoilers beneath for March 13, Wordle #998! Keep scrolling if you need some hints (after which the reply) to at the moment’s Wordle sport.

How to play Wordle

Wordle lives right here on the New York Times web site. A brand new puzzle goes stay each day at midnight, your native time.

Start by guessing a five-letter phrase. The letters of the phrase will flip inexperienced in the event that they’re appropriate, yellow when you’ve got the best letter within the incorrect place, or grey if the letter isn’t within the day’s secret phrase in any respect. For extra, take a look at our information to taking part in Wordle right here, and my technique information right here for extra superior ideas. (We even have extra data on the backside of this publish, after the hints and solutions.)

Ready for the hints? Let’s go!


Does at the moment’s Wordle have any uncommon letters?

We’ll outline widespread letters as those who seem within the outdated typesetters’ phrase ETAOIN SHRDLU. (Memorize this! Pronounce it “Edwin Shirdloo,” like a reputation, and fake he’s a good friend of yours.)

They’re nearly all widespread letters at the moment—4 are in our mnemonic. The fifth can also be fairly widespread.

Can you give me a touch for at the moment’s Wordle?

For instance, a practice or bus with frequent stops in a specific space.

Does at the moment’s Wordle have any double or repeated letters?

There is one repeated letter at the moment. 

How many vowels are in at the moment’s Wordle?

There are two vowels.

What letter does at the moment’s Wordle begin with?

Today’s phrase begins with L.

What letter does at the moment’s Wordle finish with?

Today’s phrase ends with L. 

What is the answer to at the moment’s Wordle?

Ready? Today’s phrase is LOCAL.

How I solved at the moment’s Wordle

After ARISE and TOUCH, I attempted FOCAL, which left me with solely VOCAL and LOCAL as potential options.

Wordle 998 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Yesterday’s Wordle reply

Yesterday’s Wordle was medium troublesome. The trace was “to lift with a lot of effort” and the reply contained largely widespread letters (just one unusual letter). 

The reply to yesterday’s Wordle was HEAVE. 

A primer on Wordle fundamentals

The concept of Wordle is to guess the day’s secret phrase. When you first open the Wordle sport, you’ll see an empty grid of letters. It’s as much as you to make the primary transfer: kind in any five-letter phrase. 

Now, you should use the colours which might be revealed to get clues concerning the phrase: 

  • Green means you appropriately guessed a letter, and it’s within the appropriate place. (For instance, in the event you guess PARTY, and the phrase is definitely PURSE, the P and R shall be inexperienced.)

  • Yellow means the letter is someplace within the phrase, however not within the place you guessed it. (For instance, in the event you guessed PARTY, however the phrase is definitely ROAST, the R, A and T will all be yellow.)

  • Gray means the letter isn’t within the resolution phrase in any respect. (If you guessed PARTY and all the pieces is grey, then the answer can’t be PURSE or ROAST.)

With all that in thoughts, guess one other phrase, after which one other, making an attempt to land on the proper phrase earlier than you run out of probabilities. You get six guesses, after which it’s sport over.

The finest starter phrases for Wordle

What must you play for that first guess? The finest starters are likely to comprise widespread letters, to extend the possibilities of getting yellow and inexperienced squares to information your guessing. (And in the event you get all grays when guessing widespread letters, that’s nonetheless wonderful data that can assist you rule out potentialities.) There isn’t a single “best” beginning phrase, however the New York Times’s Wordle evaluation bot has steered beginning with one among these:

  • CRANE

  • TRACE

  • SLANT

  • CRATE

  • CARTE

Meanwhile, an MIT evaluation discovered that you just’ll remove essentially the most potentialities within the first spherical by beginning with one among these:

  • SALET

  • REAST

  • TRACE

  • CRATE

  • SLATE

Other good picks is perhaps ARISE or ROUND. Words like ADIEU and AUDIO get extra vowels in play, however you would argue that it’s higher to start out with an emphasis on consonants, utilizing a starter like RENTS or CLAMP. Choose your technique, and see the way it performs out.

How to win at Wordle

We have just a few guides to Wordle technique, which you would possibly wish to learn over in the event you’re a severe pupil of the sport. This one covers use consonants to your benefit, whereas this one focuses on a technique that makes use of the most typical letters. In this superior information, we element a three-pronged strategy for fishing for hints whereas maximizing your possibilities of profitable rapidly.

The greatest factor that separates Wordle winners from Wordle losers is that winners use their guesses to assemble details about what letters are within the phrase. If you already know that the phrase should finish in -OUND, don’t waste 4 guesses on MOUND, ROUND, SOUND, and HOUND; mix these consonants and guess MARSH. If the H lights up in yellow, you already know the answer.

One extra notice on technique: the unique Wordle used a listing of about 2,300 resolution phrases, however after the sport was purchased by the NYT, the sport now has an editor who hand-picks the options. Sometimes they’re barely tough phrases that wouldn’t have made the unique record, and typically they’re topical. For instance, FEAST was the answer one Thanksgiving. So understand that there could also be a theme.

Wordle alternate options

If you may’t get sufficient of five-letter guessing video games and their kin, the finest Wordle alternate options, ranked by problem, embrace: