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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Wednesday 24 August 2022?Happy Wednesday, reader! For most of us, Wednesday represents the halfway point of the working week, and what better way to celebrate this modest milestone than with a quick round ofWordle? If you hit a creative block while trying to guess today’s five-letter solution, you can take a look below at some clues we’ve put together to help you out. Alternatively, scroll down below the video for the full answer and its definition.
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Wordle August 24 hints
Need a hand getting the Wordle answer today? Here are a few clues to help you out:
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Today’s Wordle answer August 24
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
NEEDY.
A needy person is someone who is badly in need of something. This can either be a material privation (“needy” has historically meant “very poor”), or someone who requires a lot of mental and moral support. In the latter context it’s often used more pejoratively, which now that I think about it is quite an unkind way to talk about someone who’s just asking for help overcoming their insecurities. I suppose if you want to redress the balance and bring a little more kindness into the world through everyday action, not spoiling today’s Wordle answer for other players is as good a place as any to start.
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’re hoping to improve your Wordle success rate, our guide to thebest Wordle starting wordsis here to help! You might also like our comprehensive guide to all of thepast Wordle answers.
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.
