Win a Wardle today with our help. If you are in a hurry or don't have a choice, just scroll down to see the answer. And if you need a gentle nudge in the right direction, there are October 25 (858) game tips below. However you want to play, we can give you a hand.

I seriously embarrassed myself today. As I approached the midpoint of today's wordle, I spotted a small group of three green letters. As far as my brain could tell, there was no word at all that used these letters in this order. They did not exist. Of course, Wordle had become "Wr-oh." The answer was so obvious that I wanted to burn my keyboard in embarrassment. Don't tell anyone.

If you were to do something again and hoped to succeed, or even attempted to do something one more time, you might use this word to describe the act.

Yes, there is a double letter in today's puzzle.

Playing Wordle well is like getting a small victory every day:

There is no time pressure. It doesn't hurt to come back later if you struggle to find an answer or find a tactical word for your next guess.

Give a helping hand: the answer to the October 25 (858) Wordle is "RETRY."

Knowing the answers to past wordls helps eliminate the possibility of the present. The same word is unlikely to be repeated, which can give you clues for guessing or finding a word you don't know.

Here are some recent Wordle solutions:

Wordle gives you six columns of five boxes each day, and your job is to eliminate or identify which five-letter word is hidden and which letter it contains.

You should start with strong words such as LEASH, i.e., words that contain multiple vowels, common consonants, and non-repeating letters; pressing Enter will show you the correct or incorrect letter in the box. If the box goes to ⬛️, it means the letter 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 second time, you should compliment the starting word, using another "good" guess to cover the common letter you missed last time, while avoiding the letter you now know for sure is not present in today's answer. Then simply use what you have learned to narrow down the correct word. You can try six times in all, and you can only use real words (so you cannot fill the box with EEEEE to see if there is an E). Letters can 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.