Warning: this Wordle answer is for puzzle #266, for Saturday March 12 – make sure that’s the one you’re after before scrolling on.
Wordle fans of the world, get ready for some hints and answers on this fine start to the weekend. Yesterday’s solution of WATCH caused widespread upset across the internet (including to us), with Wordle 265 X, which indicates a failure, one of the top trending terms all day.
Today’s Wordle answer is hopefully more similar (as in not a lot things rhyme with it, which is handy), but also a huge troll from NY Times when you see what it is. However, we’re up for helping you slide past the need for the answer by giving you some top Wordle hints – either saving your streak, or helping you start to rebuild from yesterday if you (like us) failed.
But if you just want the answer, scroll on down to the bottom. No worries, it’s the weekend, you’ve got stuff to do.
Today’s Wordle hint
Today’s Wordle answer is hidden in the title… is that a hint yet? Not really, it’s more of a riddle. Let’s give you some actual Wordle hints, shall we?
And now we’re trained in this practice, having spoken to owners of Wordle solver tools, linguistics experts and more… so here are our three hints to get you thinking about solving today’s answer.
- No letters are repeated
- It starts with the most popular beginning word letter
- It ends with AY
Is that a good enough hint? If you figure out 2 and 3, you’re pretty much there, in our eyes…
Wordle solver tools
Instead of scrolling to the Wordle answer section below, why not try a 5 letter word generator? There are loads of great tools online that can help you learn a bit more about the world of Wordle and how to get the right letters first – how about you check one of those out?
WordFinderX:allows you to put in letters at the start and the end if you know them and, crucially: allows you to enter any letters that don’t fit.
WordTips: same as WordFinder X but with a slightly kinder UI.
The Free Dictionary: lets you use ‘contains’, ‘ends with’ or ‘starts with’ – as well as ‘unscramble’.
TryHardGuides Wordle Solver: great for the mobile, pop in the position of the correct, misplaced and wrong letters, and get recommendations based on popularity.
Check out this useful grid that shows the hottest letter pairings – it can really help focus your mind.
Also, try out the analysis from Project Gutenberg, which analyzed nearly 10,000 texts and found the following insights into starting letters, word clumps and more.
Right, now you can have the Wordle answer for today…
Today’s Wordle Answer #266 (Mar 12)
OK, this is more like it. A slightly easier, done-in-three extravaganza. Today’s Wordle answer is TODAY.
That’s right… TODAY is today’s answer, just to really complicate things for people trying to type in ‘what’s today’s Wordle answer?’ and getting perplexed by the results.
How did you do?
So let’s look back – how did you do two days ago? WordleStats checks all the results published to Twitter and finds the common answer numbers, taking about 30 hours to crunch the data, so the following stats are for LAPSE.
We’re surprised that so many people got it in 3 – we’d have thought the -PSE ending would have stumped more. If you did it in under 4, you’re a Wordle champ.
#Wordle 263 2022-03-09201,799 results found on Twitter.9,435 hard mode players.1: 1%2: 🟩 5%3: 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 26%4: 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 37%5: 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 22%6: 🟩🟩 8%X: 1%#Wordle263March 10, 2022
Great Wordle alternatives
What about if you fancy a little bit of something else? Check back daily to see our wonderful list of the best Wordle alternatives and see what tickles your fancy.
Scholardle
Like Wordle but find it too easy? Like to read academic journals? Like funny groups off letters?
Then Scholardle is for you. Just the same as Wordle (but with five attempts), players need to try and guess the word with green and yellow letter blocks as an option.
It’s fiendishly hard, but if you’re into a little world of academia perhaps you might find it easier.
We did not.
Heardle
Like Wordle but with music, Heardle gets you short little bursts of music to guess and you’ve got six attempts to do it in.
OK, there aren’t that many similarities to the main game, but you do get the same amount of attempts, it does check against a ‘dictionary’ of songs, you can get a new puzzle daily and it allows you to do the same green-and-yellow posting to Twitter.
Wordle Unlimited
Love a bit of Wordle but annoyed it only lasts one day? Well, why don’t you try Wordle Unlimited, the hugely unofficial game where you can play as many times as you like – and we’ve got all you need to know on how to use and play Wordle Unlimted ready for you.
Nerdle
Such a different game to Wordle, but it gives your brain a different workout. Consider Wordle your long, steady state run and then Nerdle being the HIIT workout you (inexplicably) do next.
You’re asked to enter a sum of 8 numbers or symbols long… and apart from knowing it has to have some numbers and an equals in there, that’s all you get.
It’s a great play – plus there’s an ‘Instant Nerdle’ that shows you one line of semi-correct entries in the wrong place… and it’s up to you to get it. Lovely.
