Wordle first hit the world in 2021 and within weeks it became a phenomenon with hundreds of thousands of users.
The daily word puzzle was then acquired by The New York Times in early 2022 and has remained its most popular game since.
Much of Wordle‘s appeal lies in its simplicity. If you’ve never played the game before, players have six chances to guess the daily five-letter word and feedback is given to help nail it down via a color-coded system.
A green tile means the letter is correct, while yellow tells a player that the letter appears in the word but is just in the wrong spot. A gray tile indicates that the letter is not in the word at all.
People have their own style and strategy when it comes to playing the game, but when the Times’, Josh Katz and Aatish Bhatia, analyzed 515 million Wordle games they found that one of the most popular first-word choices was “Adieu,” but it was not actually all that helpful when it came solving the game.
“The strategy seems to make sense: Figure out the vowels, and the other letters will fall into place,” Katz and Bhatia wrote in the Times in December 2023. “Our new analysis, though, shows that starting with ADIEU or AUDIO does actually put human players at a disadvantage.”
They continued: “On average, players who started with ADIEU needed about a third of a turn more to solve their Wordles compared with players who started with SLATE, adding up to 132 extra turns over the course of a year.”
If you need some help working out Saturday’s Wordle answer, check out our collection of clues below. But scroll with caution because the answer is revealed at the end of this article.
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Wordle #1,176, Clues for Saturday, September 7
Newsweek has put together five hints to help you figure out today’s Wordle puzzle.
Hint #1: Today’s Wordle is a noun.
Hint #2: There are no repeated letters.
Hint #3: The word contains two vowels.
Hint #4: Today’s answer has two syllables.
Hint #5: One synonym for the word is “possessor.”
Wordle #1,176, Answer for Saturday, September 7
The answer to today’s Wordle is “owner.”
Congratulations if you got it right, but don’t worry if you didn’t. Wordle updates every day at midnight in your local time zone, so you’ll soon get another opportunity to play. Newsweek will be back with another round of hints and tips for each new game.
Players who would like something to keep themselves busy while they wait for the next Wordle can have a go at other word-based puzzles such as Typochondria.