Today's Wordle answer might trip you up. It's not an obscure word, but it's not a word I thought qualified for Wordle. If you're stuck, read on.
Every day we will post clues and then the answer for the current day's Wordle, just in case you need it.
Today's Wordle Clues for April 25
Warning: if you continue reading, you will see the Word answer from Thursday April 25, riddle no. 1041. This could be a devastating spoiler for some players. But if you just need the answer – maybe you're down to your last guess and just don't want to see an 800-game streak end – keep reading.
Word Clue #1: Vowels
Today's Wordle answer has two vowels.
Wordle Tip #2: Consonants
This leaves three consonants, and oddly enough, they are all in the middle of the word, in spaces two, three and four.
Wordle Tip #3: Startup Letter
Today's Wordle answer starts with the letter I.
Wordle Tip #4: Abridged
Today's Wordle answer is an abbreviation of a longer word.
Wordle Tip #5: Meaning
Today's Wordle answer refers to the beginning of something, such as a book, a piece, or music.
ANSWER TO THE WORD OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 25
Here's the spoiler: Today's Wordle answer is INTRO. I admit, I was surprised that the editors at Wordle used this word, because I think of it as an abbreviation or slang for “introduction” and, for some reason, I expected it to. make it forbidden for Wordle. But after all, there are only so many five-letter words.
Wordle response from yesterday
Yesterday's response, #1040, was OVERT.
Past Wordle Answers
April 20, n°1036: LUCID
April 21, n°1037: JOLLY
April 22, n°1038: LASER
April 23: No. 1039: ROVER
Daily Wordle Tips
I've written a lot about Wordle — from covering his 1,000th word to my list of best starting words has a useful two-step strategy to the news on controversial word changes. I even rounded What I learned from playing the hit online word puzzle for a full year. So if you are rethinking your need for a real answer, you can try the advice from one of these stories.
Still need a parting word? One person told me she would simply look around and choose a five-letter object she spotted to use as a seed word, like COUCH or CHAIR. I tend to stick to seed words that contain the most popular letters used in English words. I like TRAIN to begin with, although I have a friend who uses TRAIL. I read that people use the financial term ROATEbut I like to use words that I actually know.
What is Wordle?
If you've read this far, you know how to play. You have six chances to guess a five-letter word, and the game tells you whether the letters you guessed are in the puzzle and whether they are in the same place you guessed them. The New York Times bought the game from creator Josh Wardle for seven digits in 2022. Wardle created the game for her partner and let her reduce the 12,000 five-letter words in the English language to just 2,500, creating the database of answers. It was also convenient that it had a name that played on the “word”.
A Times spokesperson told me that the very first Wordle appeared on June 19, 2021, and that the newspaper celebrated the game's 1000th word on March 15. Spoiler: That 1000th word was ERUPT. As in “Daddy will burst if the Wordle is so hard he loses his streak.”
There are other fun games in the Times Games stable. My the latest addiction is Connections, which I think is trickier than Wordle. This is the game where you look at a grid of 16 words and try to group them into four groups of related words. Sometimes the relationships between words are pretty fuzzy – like back when there were just four words that all started with rock bands, like “Rushmore” and “mate.” (Connections got a little sassy on April Fool's Day with a fully emoji puzzle. Some players did NOT find it funny.)
Spelling Bee is also a popular Times game. And there is a new game that is still in beta, Strandsthat I'm trying to master.