Wordle answer #451 (Tuesday 13 September) | Rock Paper Shotgun

2022-09-19 01:10:11 By : Mr. Johnson XU

Looking for the Wordle answer for Tuesday 13 September 2022? Wordle took the world by storm way back in January, but we couldn't have imagined still playing it so many months ahead. Yet, here we are in September, waking up to an alarm ordering us to remember Wordle every morning. If that rings a bell and you've only just got out of bed, maybe your eyes are still adjusting to the light. If that's the case, how could you be expected to solve the Wordle answer today? That'd be a tall order, so we're here to offer a helping hand.

In this guide, you'll find three clues that you can use to find the Wordle answer today. If you're out of time and need to skip to the answer, keep scrolling to find it further down.

Looking for today's solution? Check out the Wordle answer for Friday 16 September!

If you need pointing in the right direction, look no further. Below, you'll find three helpful hints that'll help you solve the Wordle answer today:

It's time to reveal the answer to today's Wordle. The word is...

Alpha is the first letter of the Greek alphabet, and I'm only now realising that alphabet is a mashup of alpha and beta. Let me just compose myself.

Alpha is also used in military lingo to relay codes, but I tend to use it when spelling my name out over the phone because the line is crackly. In the world of wolves, an alpha is also the leader of the pack. If you're a fan of The Walking Dead, you'll recognise that the villainous leader of the Whisperers also named themselves Alpha, thanks to their animalistic ways. While, Alpha might have been a villain, we're sure that she wouldn't have spoiled the Wordle answer for others. If you want to avoid turning evil, we suggest keeping the Wordle answer today a secret.

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.

Using these clues you can start to narrow down the correct word by figuring out which letters are included in the word and in which positions they belong. Head over to the Wordle site to try it for yourself. Just remember: there's only one Wordle puzzle released per day, so if you want to play again, you'll have to wait until tomorrow.

Wordle began life as a little family game created by software engineer Josh Wardle. He created the game so that he and his partner could play a fun little word game together during the pandemic, and they quickly realised that there was something quite special in this simple little guessing game. So after a bit of refinement, Wardle released it to the public on his website, Power Language.

The game was released in October 2021, and by the end of the year the game had two million daily players. It became a viral hit, thanks in large part to the ease with which players could share their results in a spoiler-free manner on Twitter and other social media sites. In January 2022, Wardle accepted an offer form the New York Times to acquire Wordle for a seven-figure sum. Well done, Mr Wardle. Well done indeed.

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.

If Wordle is starting to get too easy, there are a few ways you can make the game more challenging for yourself. The first choice is to turn on Hard Mode. You can do this on the Wordle site by clicking the cog icon in the top-right of the screen. Hard Mode means that any highlighted letters must be used in all future guesses. This stops you from using the common tactic of choosing two words like "OUNCE" and "PAINS" to test all five vowels early on.

You can take it up another notch by playing by what we call "Ultra-Hard" rules. This means that every guess you enter must potentially be the answer. If you were just playing on Hard Mode, and you typed "MOIST", and the "O" appeared yellow, then nothing would stop you from making "POLAR" as your next word, even though it couldn't possibly be the answer because you already know the "O" is in the wrong place. If you play by "Ultra-Hard" rules, that's not allowed. You must adhere to every clue, and make sure every single word you enter is potentially the answer.

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 is Worldle, in which you must guess a country of the world based on its shape. There's also Waffle, 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; and Quordle, which tasks you with solving four Wordles at once with the same guesses.

That's it for our guide on the Wordle answer today, but come back tomorrow for more help with the next Wordle puzzle. If you want to sharpen your skills in the meantime, check out our list of the best Wordle starting words. To avoid repeating words that have already appeared in the past, take a look at our list of past Wordle answers.

Zombies. Walkers. Shamblers. Whatever you call them, Hayden is definitely a fan. He can usually be found in front of a screen, playing the latest survival games and trying to hide from the real world. His eyes haven't turned square yet, but the possibility is certainly scary.

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