Wordle, a popular game from run by The New York Times, is back with another brainteaser.
Wordle first became a worldwide sensation in 2021 during the coronavirus pandemic. Created by British software engineer Josh Wardle, the simple-yet-entertaining word guessing game went on to achieve such popularity that it was acquired by The New York Times in January 2022. The game’s popularity has endured since then, having reached its milestone 1,000th puzzle earlier this year.
Playing Wordle is easy, although getting it right can prove difficult. Wordle’s single objective is to guess the daily five-letter word in as few attempts as possible. The game presents a new word every 24 hours and gives players six chances to guess the correct answer.
When a letter is correctly placed, its tile turns green. If a letter is part of the correct answer but in the wrong place, the tile turns yellow. If a letter is not present in the word at all, you’ll know you’re wrong as the corresponding tile turns gray.
Speaking to Newsweek, Joel C. Wallenberg, a senior lecturer in language at the University of York in the U.K., said that the popularity of Wordle reflects the inherent human fascination with language.
He said: “Language always seems to be fascinating to people. This is perhaps because producing and understanding language is a fantastically complex process, and we are only aware of the tiniest bit of that process while it’s going on; most of what we do when we speak, we do unconsciously.
“But it may be that people have an inkling that they’re doing something very involved and impressive when they speak, even if they don’t know the details or why it should be that way.
“Language games poke at how conscious (or unconscious) we are of our own linguistic processes, and maybe give us a little more insight into them than we had before. That might be one reason why humans, maybe universally, have always invented and enjoyed language games.”
Scroll with caution from this point on—Monday’s winning answer is at the bottom of this page.
Wordle #1,213 Tips and Hints for Monday, October 14
Newsweek has put together five clues to help players that may be baffled by Monday’s Wordle:
Hint #1: The Wordle answer ends with a consonant.
Hint #2: There are no repeating letters in Monday’s answer.
Hint #3: Monday’s Wordle is a noun.
Hint #4: There are two vowels.
Hint #5: The answer begins with “G.”
Wordle #1,213 Answer for Monday, October 14
Still stuck? Monday’s Wordle answer is “GAMUT,” which means “the whole series of recognized musical notes” or “an entire range or series,” such as in statistics, according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary.
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