End your week of Wordle with a victory that is uniquely yours. Refresh your daily game with a general clue, or give today's puzzle a boost with the October 29 (862) clue. Today's Wordle answers are delivered to you in the form of a glowing plate that you click on.

Coming across two yellow letters with the same number of guesses did not fill me with confidence today, but after the initial wave of despair subsided and I looked again, I realized how lucky I was. I had already ruled out many common characters, and if my yellow was wrong there, it only applied to one more place.

Fake, lie (or liar), counterfeit: these are all great choices for words today. In British English, this word is six letters long and contains an "e."

No, there are no double letters in today's puzzle.

Anyone can play Wordle, but if you want to play Wordle well, and make every guess count, take a look at these simple tips:

Thankfully, there is a midnight completion Thankfully, there is no time limit on how long you have to complete it 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, if you go away for a while, you can come back to it with a fresh mind.

This may be what you need: the answer to the October 29 (862) Wordle is "PHONY."

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

Here are some recent Wordle solutions:

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 strong words like ARISE or other words that have a good mix of common consonants and multiple vowels. You also do not want to start with words that begin with repeated letters, as this wastes the chance to delete or check for extra letters; pressing Enter will tell you which ones are right and which ones are wrong. If the box goes to ⬛️, it means that the character is not in the secret word at all. A ? 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 previous guess, using another "good" word to cover a common letter that you may have missed last time, while 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. Also, if you want to know which words are already in use, scroll to the relevant section above.

Wordle was originally conceived by software engineer Josh Wardle as a surprise for his partner, who loved word games. From there it spread to his family and was finally released to the public. Since then, the word puzzle game has spawned a slew of Wordle-like games, focusing the daily gimmicks on music, math, and geography, and it wasn't long before Wordle became so popular that it was sold to the New York Times for a seven-figure sum. Indeed, it would only be a matter of time before we would be communicating solely through tricolored boxes.