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It's finally Friday again, and we're here to help you with Wordle #370 — if you get stuck and start to get nervous about your streak, we've got some tips and hints to nudge you towards the solution.
You can scroll to the very end of this article for the answer to the June 24 Wordle, or read on for a few tips and strategies to help you every day and some subtle hints for today's solution before you get to the spoiler down the bottom.
Wordleis a daily word game created by Josh Wardle, a Brooklyn-based software engineer who has developed something of a reputation as a crafter of interesting social experiments. Every day, the people of the internet are greeted with a fresh word puzzle that can only be solved — or not! — using a series of process-of-elimination clues.
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Thousands of people around the globe now play this game each day, and fans have even created alternatives to Wordleinspired by the original format. This includes music identification game Heardle, Hollywood nerd faves Actorleand Framed, and variations like Dordleand Quordlethat make you guess multiple words at once.
In fact, the word puzzle game has proved so popular that the New York Timesbought it earlier this year,and TikTok creators livestream themselves playing(which is surprisingly engrossing to watch).
Not the day you're after? You'll find the Wordleanswer for June 23 here.
Look to the future!Here's where you'll find the Wordleanswer and clues for June 25.
Is Wordle free?
You might find "Wordle" results in an iOS App Store or Google Play Store search, but don't mistake it for the real thing. Wordle, the original one Wardle came up with and kindly delivered unto the internet in late 2021, currently only exists as a browser game that lives right here. If you're playing it anywhere else, it's — at best — a shameless knock-off that's trying to capitalize on someone else's success.
What's the best Wordle starting word?
We have some ideas to help you pick the perfect first move (or as close to perfect as you can get without just magically guessing the exact right word). Such tips include choosing a word with at least two different vowels in it, plus a few common consonants such as S, T, R, or N.
SEE ALSO: The best Kindle deals at Amazon ahead of Prime DayWhat happened to the Wordle archive? Did the archive get taken down?
Yes, you used to be able to play the entire archive of past puzzles, but the archive was taken down at the request of the New York Times, according to the site.
A subtle hint for the Wordle today:
It's a verb normally associated with a very powerful entity (and also the name of a video game).
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What's the answer to Wordle on June 24?
Ready?
OK.
The answer to the Wordletoday is....
SMITE.
Not familiar with this word? The meaning of SMITE is to hit or strike, but it's often used in old-fashioned contexts, most often meaning to be struck or struck down by the gods. (Think Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty: "Smite me, almighty smiter!)
Reporting by Caitlin Welsh, Amanda Yeo and Adam Rosenberg contributed to this article.
Not the day you're after? Here's the solution to today's Wordle.
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