Wordle Hint

What this wordle hint board is

This is a five-letter word puzzle that hands you a wordle hint instead of the answer. You get six guesses on a 5x6 grid, and when a guess stalls you open the hint ladder: the opening letter first, then the vowel count, then whether a letter repeats, and only after that the middle and last letters. The answer stays hidden until you either solve it or run out of rows.

Most pages that rank for a wordle hint today dump the answer into the first paragraph. That ends the puzzle. This board keeps it alive, and it resets at local midnight so there is always a fresh one.

How to play the board

1. Type a five-letter word with the physical keyboard or tap the on-screen keys.
2. Press Enter to lock the guess.
3. Read the tile colours: green means the letter is in the right place, amber means the letter is in the word but in a different place, grey means the letter is not in the word at all.
4. Take a wordle hint only when you are stuck, and take one step at a time.
5. Solve within six rows. Your streak counts consecutive days with a solve.

The hint ladder, step by step

A wordle hint works best when it narrows the search without handing over the word. That is why this board reveals hints in a fixed order.

• Hint one names the opening letter. That one letter usually eliminates a third of the five-letter words you were considering.
• Hint two counts the vowels and tells you nothing about which ones. Two vowels could be any pair, so the search space stays wide.
• Hint three tells you whether a letter repeats. Repeated letters are the single most common reason a player loses on row five.
• Hint four gives the middle and last letters. At that point the word is usually one guess away, which is the point where most players would rather finish alone.

Every hint you open is recorded in your result line, so a solve with zero hints is not the same as a solve with three.

Picking an opening word

Your first guess should test five common letters that are rarely repeated. Words built from letters like R, S, T, L, N, C and A give you the most information per row. Opening words full of rare letters feel clever but waste a row.

After the first guess, do not go looking for the word yet. Go looking for the vowel pattern. If the board shows no vowels at all, you know the word is built on a short vowel you have not tried, and the second guess should carry two of them.

Reading tile colours properly

A grey tile only means the letter is not in the word once. If the same letter appears twice in your guess and only one turns amber, the word contains exactly one of that letter. Players lose rows by ignoring this: guessing a double letter that the board has already told them is single.

When a wordle hint beats another guess

There is a point around row four where guessing blind costs more than asking. If you have no green tiles and the shapes you are testing keep missing, one wordle hint from the ladder is worth more than a random fifth guess, because it cuts the field instead of sampling it.

The reverse is also true. If you already have three green tiles, do not open a hint. You are two letters away and the hint would only confirm what the board already shows.

Why the board resets at midnight

Each local day maps to one word. The board switches at 00:00 local time and your streak carries over if you solved the day before. Opening the page after midnight gives you the next word, not the one you were working on, so finish the rows you started before the clock turns.

Is this the official game

No. This is an independent board with its own word list and its own hint ladder. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to The New York Times Company or any of its games. The rules follow the same five-letter format that made the daily puzzle popular, which is why a wordle hint here reads the same way it does anywhere else.

What the word list covers

The list is made of common five-letter English words: everyday nouns, verbs, and adjectives rather than obscure dictionary entries or proper names. If you type a real word and the board rejects it, that word is simply not part of this list, and the row is not counted against you. The rejection message says so.

That restriction keeps the puzzle fair. A word list that accepts anything lets a player burn rows on nonsense, and a list that is too narrow turns the game into a vocabulary test. This one sits in the middle: roughly three hundred answers in rotation, all of them guessable.