Wordle has been around for a while, but practice doesn't necessarily mean perfect, so Newsweek is here to give you a few useful tips for today's puzzle and, if all else fails, the answer.
The rules of the game are simple—players need to work out a mystery five-letter word in six guesses or fewer, and then a color-coded tile system lets you know if you're on the right track.
A green tile means the letter is correct, while yellow tells you the letter appears in the word but is just in the wrong spot, while a gray tile shows that the letter does not appear in the word at all.
The New York Times bought Wordle for a "seven-figure" sum from creator Josh Wardle in 2022 after releasing it in October the previous year.
The newspaper recently analyzed 515 million Wordle games and its research found that one of the most popular first-word choices, "Adieu," was in the top 30 most-used starting words. However, despite seeming like a good choice to start the puzzle, it was actually not that helpful in solving the daily puzzle.
"The strategy seems to make sense: Figure out the vowels, and the other letters will fall into place," wrote authors Josh Katz and Aatish Bhatia for The New York Times. "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."
WordsRated also did some research on the game and found the most common starting letter is S, with 15.81 percent of answers beginning with it.
The next most common starting letter is C, with 8.58 percent of Wordle answers starting with the consonant, although S is the starting letter for 167 more words than its nearest rival. B is in third place with 7.49 percent.
If you need a hand solving today's Wordle brainteaser, Newsweek has put together a few hints to help you out. But be warned, the answer appears further down in the article, so please scroll with caution if you want to work it out yourself.
Wordle #1,037 Clues for Sunday, April 21 Game
Hint #1: Today's Wordle is an adjective, adverb, noun or verb.
Hint #2: There is one vowel.
Hint #3: There is one duplicate letter.
Hint #4: The fourth letter is a consonant.
Hint #5: Today's answer begins with the letter "J."
Wordle #1,037 Answer for Sunday, April 21 Game
The answer to today's Wordle is "Jolly."
Did you get it? If not, don't fret. Wordle resets at midnight in your local time zone, so you can try again tomorrow.
In the meantime, why not give another popular word puzzle game, such as Typochondria, a go?
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