'Wordle' #293 today: Here's the answer and hints for April 8
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Happy Friday, Wordlers! You made it, hopefully with streaks intact. You'll find today's Wordle answer at the bottom of this post, but if you want to try and work it out yourself first, you'll find a few clues as well as general Wordle tips, strategies, and info as you scroll.
Created by engineer Josh Wardle as a gift for his partner, and later bought by the New York Times in a seven-figure deal, Wordle has become a daily habit for thousands of people, and inspired countless clones and variations on the basic guessing-game format.
Try the battle royale-style Squabble, the maddeningly fun music game Heardle, the several-at-once variants like Dordle and Quordle and so on (and put them all together to beat the 31-word Grand Slam) — or find new strategies with less stress by watching people play on TikTok.
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Yesterday's Wordle: Here's the April 7 Wordle in case you're looking for it. We do this every day.
More Wordle: Here's the April 9 Wordle, too.
What's the best Wordle starting word?
Generally, you want to lock in or rule out at least two vowels, as well as a couple of more common letters so you can start in on the more obscure fellas. We've got plenty of options for you to try.
Why are there two different Wordle answers some days?
Some people found there was more than one possible Wordle answer again last week — here's why that might happen occasionally.
Is Wordle getting harder? It feels like it's harder lately!
No, it's not getting harder. In fact, we've actually been playing it on easy mode — here's how to switch to Hard Mode.
Where can I play previous Wordles?
One a day not doing it for you anymore? Or just want to practice? You can play the whole archive of past Wordles.
Here's a subtle hint for today's Wordle answer:
It can be used in this five-letter form as both a verb and a noun.
Missed a day? Here's the Wordle answer and hints for April 6.
Does today's Wordle answer have a double letter?
Nope! Five letters, all appearing once.
Today's Wordle is a 5-letter word that ends with...
E! Although that's probably not the letter you need help with.
What's the answer to Wordle today?
OK, OK, here it is.
Ready?
It is...
SCARE.
Oh boy, another one of these. All except the C are pretty common letters you probably work in somewhere in your first two guesses. But then even once you've got S_ARE locked in... there are still five options for what it could be, and you could easily X out just guessing at them: SHARE, SPARE, STARE, and SNARE could all be your undoing.
As always with these ones, if you guess a word that has as many of those possible letters in them, you can rule them in or out! There aren't any five-letter words you can make with H, P, T, N, and C alone, obviously. But playing, say, PINCH would tell you a lot.
See you tomorrow for more brain-twisters!
Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to today's Wordle.
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Caitlin is Mashable's Australian Editor. She has written for The Guardian, Junkee, and any number of plucky little music and culture publications that were run on the smell of an oily rag and have since been flushed off the Internet like a dead goldfish by their new owners. She also worked at Choice, Australia's consumer advocacy non-profit and magazine, and as such has surprisingly strong opinions about whitegoods. She enjoys big dumb action movies, big clever action movies, cult Canadian comedies set in small towns, Carly Rae Jepsen, The Replacements, smoky mezcal, revenge bedtime procrastination, and being left the hell alone when she's reading.
