This page contains helpful hints for today's Wordle (open in new tab), along with a selection of tips and tricks to help you succeed in the April 23 (673) game as well as other games. If needed, you can also find the answers on this page.

Looking at the answers to today's Wordle, I feel like this solution should have been harder than my final done-in-three result. All of my success is due to my guess at the beginning, which revealed four of today's five letters at once. As a start, I could not have wished for more.

Open a coat, a bag, or anything else zipped shut, and you have the answer to today's wordle. There are two vowels today.

No letter is used twice in today's puzzle.

Anyone can play Wordle, but if you play Wordle well and want to make every guess count, these simple tips will help you start your Wordle streak:

Thankfully, you have until midnight to complete Thankfully, there is no time limit on how long you have to complete them by midnight. So treat this game like a casual newspaper crossword, and there is no reason why you can't come back to it later if a blank space arises. Sometimes, after a short time away, you can come back with a fresh mind.

One step closer to victory; the answer to the April 23 (673) Wordle is UNZIP.

Past Wordle answers give great ideas for fun starting words to keep your daily puzzle solutions fresh. It is also a good way to eliminate guesswork for today's Wordle since the same answers are unlikely to be repeated.

Here are some recent Wordle answers:

Wordle offers five boxes in six columns each day, so to keep the winning streak going, you need to find the secret five-letter word hidden in them.

You should start with a strong word like ARISE (open in a new tab) or any other word with a good mix of common consonants and multiple vowels. You also do not want to start a word with repeated letters. Pressing the Enter key will tell you which one is right or wrong, because you will waste the chance to delete or check the extra letters. If the box goes to ⬛️, that means the character is not in the secret word. means the letter is in the word but not in that position. means that the correct letter is in the correct position.

The next guess complements the first guess, using another "good" word to cover a common letter that you may have missed last time, while at the same time trying to avoid a letter that you now know for sure is not present in today's answer. After that, it's just a matter of using what you've learned to narrow down the correct word. In all, you can try six times, and you can only use actual words. Remember that letters can also be repeated (e.g. BOOKS).

If you need further advice, see Wordle's tips (opens in a new tab). You can also scroll to the relevant section above if you want to know which words are already in use.

Originally, Wordle was invented by software engineer Josh Wardle (opens in new tab) as a surprise for his partner, who liked word games. From there it spread to his family and was finally released to the public. This word puzzle game then became a tremendous inspiration for games like Wordle (opens in new tab), which focused its daily gimmicks on music, math, and geography It wasn't long before Wordle became so popular that it was sold to the New York Times for a seven-figure price! (opens in new tab). Indeed, it will only be a matter of time before we all communicate using only tricolor boxes.