If you opened your phone this morning and immediately felt that familiar twist of anxiety before typing your first guess, you’re not alone. Wordle has a way of doing that to you.
Today’s puzzle, #1759 for Monday, April 13, has been causing a fair bit of head-scratching across the UK this morning. Social media is already full of those telltale green, yellow, and grey squares, with plenty of players admitting it took them right to the wire.
Without giving too much away too soon, here are a few hints if you’re stuck but not quite ready to throw in the towel.
Hint 1: The word contains two vowels.
Hint 2: There’s a repeated letter.
Hint 3: You might use this word to describe someone who’s being carefully cautious, or perhaps a little too restrained.
“I got it in four, but only because my second guess got lucky with the repeated letter. That completely threw me yesterday.”
That’s a fairly typical experience today. The repeated letter is the real trap here; plenty of players are burning guesses because they’re not accounting for it appearing twice.
Good starting words are making a real difference this Monday. Veterans of the game tend to swear by openers like CRANE, SLATE, or AUDIO for maximum letter coverage. If you used one of those today, you likely had a reasonable foothold by guess two.
Still stuck? The answer to Wordle #1759 is: TERSE. Fittingly concise for a Monday morning, some might say.
Wordle has now been a daily fixture since the New York Times acquired it in January 2022 for a reported seven-figure sum. It still pulls in millions of players every single day, which is remarkable for something so deliberately simple.
The streak counter remains the great motivator. Lose it and you feel it physically. A few players are reportedly nursing streaks well past the 500-day mark at this point, which is either deeply impressive or a warning sign, depending on how you look at it.
Will tomorrow’s word be kinder? With Wordle, you never quite know what’s coming.
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