Refresh your daily wordle game with a hint, give direction to your guess with a January 4 (929) clue, or turn a near-loss into an instant upset by clicking your way to today's answer. No matter how you play, this page will help you.

The moment the first column was turned over, I knew something special was happening today. That green, that there, and the floating yellow ......" I knew I had enough to work with as long as I thought carefully about my next guess. So I stewed on it for a while, and thanks to that, Wardle won today in two. Amazing. Well done, me.

Shortage. Low supply. Very small quantity. Not enough for whatever you're applying today's answer to.

No letter is used twice in today's puzzle.

If you are new to Daily Wordle puzzles, or if you need to take a break and refresh yourself, here are some simple tips for a must-win. Nothing makes the rest of your day better than a small victory.

There is no timer. If you get stuck, there's no shame in going back to the puzzle later that day to clear your head before finishing it.

Five green letters, here it comes: the answer to the January 4 (929) wordle is SCANT.

Keeping track of the last handful of wordle answers helps eliminate the current possibilities. It is also useful for inspiring opening words and subsequent guesses if you are short on ideas for the day.

Here are the last 10 answers in Wordle:

Wordle displays five boxes in six columns each day, where the goal is to figure out the correct five-letter word by entering a guess and deleting or checking the individual letters.

Getting a good start on a strong word like ARISE, i.e., one that contains multiple vowels, common consonants, and non-repeating letters, is a good tactic; pressing Enter will display the correct or incorrect answer 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 guess should complement the starting word, using another "good" word to cover the common letter missed last time, while avoiding the letter that we now know for sure is not present in today's answer. With any luck, a few colored squares will be created and you will be on the right track.

Then it is just a matter of using what you have learned to narrow down the correct words. You can try six times in all, and you can only use actual words (you cannot fill in the box with EEEEE to see if there is an E). Letters may 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 liked 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; 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.