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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Monday 15 August 2022?I wonder ifWordlewill ever fall out of popularity, or if it’s simply here to stay forever more now, like Crosswords and Sudokus filling up everyone’s mornings with clever little puzzles to get the brain’s gears working. Whatever the answer, we’re just here to enjoy the ride, and to make sure you enjoy it too. To that end, below we’ve laid out a few handy hints and clues that will help lead you to today’s Wordle solution. And further below, we’ve revealed the Wordle answer itself, along with an explanation of the word’s meaning.
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Wordle August 15 hints
Whoever thought before Wordle began that guessing a five-letter word could be so fiendish? The answer might seem just around the corner, but it remains that way even after all six of your guesses have been spent. If you want a helping hand to ensure you get the Wordle answer today, have a read of our Wordle hints below:
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Today’s Wordle answer August 15
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
POKER.
Poker is probably the most famous playing card game in the world, so you’ve doubtless heard of the word. However, it’s also the name of a specific type of long metal rod which is used for stoking the flames in a fireplace, which is an activity that’s fallen rather more out of fashion than the game of Poker. Once upon a time, fire was humanity’s greatest tool. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
As always, we urge you to keep today’s Wordle answer to yourself, and don’t go spoiling the game for anyone who hasn’t yet had the chance to play today. That’s a sure-fire way to lose friends and alienate people, so for now, just be content with knowing the answer for yourself.
How to play Wordle
Wordle is a very straightforward word guessing game. The aim is to guess the correct five-letter word in just six guesses. With each guess, the individual letters of your chosen word will highlight green if they’re in the correct place, or yellow if they’re in the wrong place. If a letter doesn’t appear in the solution word at all, it’ll remain unhighlighted.
How did Wordle begin?
Are any Wordle words not allowed?
You can type in pretty much any five-letter word in the English language and Wordle will accept it as a guess. However, the answer is picked each day from a much smaller list of more common five-letter words. There are still thousands of possible answers, of course, but it means the answer will never be a word as obscure as, say, “THIOL”, or “CAIRD”, or “MALIC” (yes, those are all real words).
There are very occasional words which the New York Times will choose not to publish as the day’s Wordle answer, perhaps for reasons relating to recent news or politics. For example, shortly after news broke that Roe v Wade might be overturned in the United States, the NYT decided to change the March 30th word from “FETUS” to “SHINE”, as the feeling was that the word “fetus” was too politically charged a word in the context of recent events.
The New York Times has also been careful never to allow what they consider to be rude words as the answer to a Wordle puzzle. But of course there’s nothing stopping you from using even the dirtiest of words as guesses, as long as they’re accepted words in the dictionary, and as long as you realise that they’ll never end up being the answer.
Is Wordle getting too easy for you?
If after all that Wordle is still too easy for you, then you could always try one of the many other Wordle-inspired games online that have cropped up over the past year. One of our favourites isWorldle, in which you must guess a country of the world based on its shape. There’s alsoWaffle, which is about swapping letters in a completed grid to complete all the words;Moviedle, which shows you an entire movie in a tiny space of time and challenges you to guess the movie within six guesses; andQuordle, which tasks you with solving four Wordles at once with the same guesses.
If you want to improve your consistency at Wordle and besting your previous winning streak, we’ve a couple guides that can help you with that. Head over to ourbest Wordle starting wordsandpast Wordle answersguides for ideas on how to begin and end your Wordle guessing each day.
Use ourWordle Solver toolto help you figure out the answer to any Wordle in moments! Just pop your current guesses in the grid and watch the tool instantly give you all the potential answers.
