Scroll down the page and you'll quickly find today's Wordle clue: click or scroll to the answer for March 2 (987).

Obvious. Obvious. It's right in front of you. That is today's Wardle. I spent a lot of time guessing, chasing certain letters around the board and trying desperately to flip them from yellow to green. While I'm glad I was able to find the answer with time to spare, I expect to have a better game tomorrow.

The opposite of a quiet countryside. I want you to think of crowded streets, buildings stretching skyward, rooftop gardens, and places that never seem to sleep. To solve today's puzzle, you need to unearth two different vowels.

There are no double letters in today's puzzle.

If there is one thing better than playing Wordle, it is playing Wordle well:

There is no pressure to complete it by midnight. So you can treat this game as something as casual as a newspaper crossword and come back to it later if you come up blank.

The answer to the 'Need a hand' March 2 (987) wordle is URBAN.

If you memorize many past Wordle answers, you are more likely to be able to guess today's Wordle answer without accidentally choosing an answer that has already been used. Also, looking at past Wordle solutions can give you great ideas for fun starting words to keep your daily puzzles fresh.

Here are some recent Wordle solutions:

Wordle shows 5 boxes in 6 columns each day.

You want to start with a strong word like ALERT, which contains multiple vowels, common consonants, and non-repeating letters; pressing Enter will display the correct or incorrect answer in the box. If the box goes to ⬛️, that 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 complements the first by using another "good" word to cover the common letter missed the last time, while at the same time trying to avoid the letter that we now know for sure is not present in today's answer.

Then it is just a matter of using what you have learned to narrow down the correct word. You can try six times in all, and you can only use actual words (so you can't fill 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.