Wordle is back with another five-letter answer for players to pore over—but if you’re struggling, Newsweek has you covered.
The ever-popular puzzle game is easy to play. When a letter is correctly placed, the tile turns green. If a letter is part of the correct answer but occupies an incorrect position, it turns yellow. If a letter is not present in the word at all, the corresponding tile goes gray.
Created by British software engineer Josh Wardle, he previously told Newsweek the reasoning behind the game’s rules. “There is a reason that every word is five letters long and that you are allowed six attempts to guess it. That might seem arbitrary, but with the prototype version, I tested different word lengths and experimented with the number of tries that players were allowed,” Wardle said.
“Through that process of refinement, I figured out that five letters and six tries was the ideal sweet spot. It’s just limited enough to feel challenging and to make you think, but most of the time, people still manage to solve it. So, you feel a real sense of real accomplishment.”
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After the game became immensely popular throughout the pandemic, Joel C. Wallenberg, a senior lecturer in language at the University of York, told Newsweek: “Language always seems to be fascinating to people. This is perhaps because producing and understanding language is a fantastically complex process, and we are only aware of the tiniest bit of that process while it’s going on; most of what we do when we speak, we do unconsciously.
“Language games poke at how conscious (or unconscious) we are of our own linguistic processes, and maybe give us a little more insight into them than we had before. That might be one reason why humans, maybe universally, have always invented and enjoyed language games!”
The popular word-guessing game hit its 1,000th puzzle this week. Released during the lockdowns of the coronavirus pandemic, the game achieved such popularity that it was acquired by the New York Times in January 2022 for an undisclosed seven-figure sum.
Wordle #1,002 Hints for Sunday, March 17 Game
Newsweek has put together five hints to help you figure out today’s puzzle; be careful when scrolling, as the answer is also below.
Hint #1: Today’s answer begins with an ‘S’.
Hint #2: It does not contain any double letters
Hint #3: Today’s word is most commonly used as a verb.
Hint #4: The answer contains only one vowel.
Hint #5: The word ends with a consonant.
Wordle #1,002 Answer for Sunday, March 17 Game
Today’s correct Wordle answer is SNORT.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, SNORT can mean “to force air violently through the nose with a rough harsh sound” or “to express scorn, anger, indignation, or surprise by a snort.”
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