Today s Wordle answer and hints - solution #479 Tuesday October 11 Tom's Guide Skip to main content Tom's Guide is supported by its audience. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here's why you can trust us. Today s Wordle answer and hints - solution #479 Tuesday October 11 By Kelly Woo Contributions from Alan Martin , Marc McLaren published 11 October 2022 Wordle #479 is here. We'll give you some hints and the answer… (Image credit: Shutterstock) Jump to: Today's hints Today's answer Yesterday's answer Previous answers Wordle tips Other info Wordle alternatives Today's Wordle answer is, according to WordleBot, a little easier than the last two, with #479 taking an average of 3.8 turns to guess. We managed it in three moves, but while that sounds good, it doesn't factor in the long time we spent staring at the grid after our first go which was... substantial. With that in mind, you might need a couple of hints. At Tom's Guide, we've honed our strategy after playing every Wordle so far and losing only once, so hopefully our advice will be helpful. Aside from a list of the best Wordle start words, we have plenty of Wordle tips and tricks to share. We have also analyzed every Wordle answer to look for patterns and have some further advice for you there. And if you're new to the game you should also take a look at our What is Wordle? guide. Each day, we will update this article with tips to help you find today's Wordle answer. And if the hints aren't enough, we'll even give you the solution, in case you're really stuck or just haven't had time to complete today's puzzle. Plus, we are also including an analysis of yesterday's puzzle, #478, in case you're reading this in a different time zone. So be warned: spoilers lie ahead for game #479. Only read on if you want to know today's Wordle answer! Today s Wordle answer #479 - hints to help you solve it Our first tip is that you should use one of the best Wordle start words for every game you play. But if you want some more specific clues to today's Wordle answer, then here you go:It contains two of the five vowels.*It has no repeated letters.It contains three of the seven most used letters in the Wordle dictionary. * By vowel, we mean A, E, I, O, U. There are other letters that are sometimes considered to be vowels, depending on how they are used. Those hints should get you at least some of the way towards finding today's Wordle answer. If not, then you can read on for a bigger clue; or, if you just want to know the answer, then skip down further for that. Alright then, here's the final hint: Today's Wordle answer is entirely legitimate. OK, it's time to scroll down for the answer…Get better at Wordle! 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A bonus episode from me, Alan Martin, today. Kelly will be back for business as usual tomorrow. Wordle #479 was an interesting lesson in how getting a lot of characters on your first move doesn't necessarily mean you're getting an easy ride. I played my recent favourite move AUDIT - a twist on the conventional best Wordle start words - and was staggeringly successful, with two yellows and a green. WordleBot confirms this was a top-notch play, grudgingly calling it "extraordinarily lucky today," as it left just seven words in the Wordle dictionary to guess. Indeed, it could only come up with a handful of better alternatives: TRAIL (1), TAILS (2), LADEN (5) and CARED (3) being the best of the bunch. Most left a three-figure number of options remaining. (Image credit: Alan Martin) But such an opening move can paralyze you with indecision, as it did here. What I needed to do was shift the 'A' and 'D' around to make them go green, while trying some other letters for my remaining two. That sounds easy on paper, but how many words end 'IA' or 'ID' when you have to fit in a 'D' or 'A' elsewhere? Not many, as WordleBot would patiently explain later. After racking my brains for a few moments, I came up with DRAIN which neatly swapped the 'D' and 'A' while leaving the 'I' intact, and introducing 'R' and 'N' to the mix. It didn't change my score, however, with both existing letters remaining yellow and the new additions going grey. This was a little demoralising, considering how long it had taken me to come up with it, but WordleBot notes that it took out five possible words, leaving just two available answers. It could do better, though, and noted that RAPID, PLAID and PRONE would have reduced me to just one option. But a 50/50 chance was good enough for me. After a few more minutes of staring, I chanced upon VALID. (Don't tell WordleBot, but VAPID, the other remaining option, didn't even occur to me.) That meant I completed Wordle #479 in three moves; slightly better than the 3.8 average of players worldwide. I hope today's puzzle treated you well, fellow Wordlers. I'll be back on Sunday, leaving you in the very capable hands of Kelly Woo until then. Happy Wordling! Yesterday s Wordle answer #478 Monday October 10 Reading this in a time zone where it's still Friday? The Wordle answer for game #478 was ENJOY. Alan Martin here again, and with an identical score to yesterday: four. That's 0.6 faster than the average Wordle player at the time of writing, so I'll take it. I got there with an absolutely abysmal first move which did nothing except rule out five letters: AUDIT. It may be one of the best Wordle start words, but here it was all grey with not even a yellow to comfort me. WordleBot informs me that 710 words were left after ruling out those five letters. Gulp. Still, most of WordleBot's favored words left hundreds of possible solutions as well. A few good'uns in there though: CRONE would have left 39 and SNARE just 19. The only way was up. Knowing that it would almost certainly include an 'O' or an 'E', I opted to put in a word with both: SCORE. Pleasingly both were in there. Less pleasingly, they were both in the wrong place. Still, WordleBot tells me that this narrowed my options considerably, leaving just 32 words on the table and giving me a fighting chance of finishing under par. (Image credit: Alan Martin) My next task was to try and shift the two letters while bringing in three additional new ones. I opted for MOLEY which... still didn't give me any greens, or any new yellows. Uh oh. WordleBot says that I'd narrowed it down to just two words in the dictionary, but I was having a horrible time trying to think of any. I knew that 'E' could go in slots 1-3, and the 'O' could go in 1 or 4, but making these work together was giving me a headache. How many words begin with 'O' and then have an 'E' in the next two letters? For that matter, how many words end in 'OY' without an 'L' before them? I stared at the board for about five minutes before the answer jumped out at me. Ironically for a thoroughly unenjoyable Wordle, the answer was ENJOY. Previous Wordle answers If you're looking for a list of older Wordle answers, we can also help. Here's a list going back 20 games.Wordle #478: ENJOYWordle #477: HOWDYWordle #476: VIGORWordle #475: DANDYWordle #474: SLOTHWordle #473: MARSHWordle #472: BOUGHWordle #471: STINGWordle #470: TWINEWordle #469: LEAVEWordle #468: SCORNWordle #467: SCALDWordle #466: USURPWordle #465: SOGGYWordle #464: BRISKWordle #463: ADMITWordle #462: GRATEWordle #461: GLORYWordle #460: SAINTWordle #459: RECAP Wordle tips - how to win at Wordle The best tip I can give is to use one of the best Wordle start words. I can't stress this enough - it makes a massive difference. Without one, you'll be scrabbling around in the dark trying (and possibly failing) to find the right five letters (or possibly fewer) out of the 26 possibles. But clever people (not me) have done the math and identified the best start words based on both frequency in English and frequency among Wordle answers. So use them! Secondly, think about combinations, especially at the start and end. Some options are far more common than others - for instance, SH, ST, CR and CH all feature frequently. Vowels obviously need consideration too: not all Wordle answers will contain more than one, but plenty do, and some even have three. A good Wordle start word should have used a couple, but if they don't feature you might well want to try another one or two on your next go. Plus, remember the Y - this sometimes acts as a surrogate vowel, and is easy to forget. It also appears at the end of plenty of words. Finally, try out possibilities. So long as you don't press 'Enter' you can try possible answers to see how they look on screen. Put in likely letters plus any you know are definitely in the word, then mentally change one to the other available options. This technique has worked for me multiple times, and it's particularly helpful when the word in question is not an obvious one (like FJORD or ISLET). What else should I know about Wordle Wordle officially launched in October 2021, but actually started in June of that year and celebrated its first birthday on June 19, 2022. (You can read my thoughts on the 5 things Wordle needs to improve if it's to keep us playing for its second year.) However, it only grew in popularity towards the end of the year, then went viral in January as the world woke up to its charms. In fact, it proved so successful that The New York Times bought Wordle for a seven-figure sum in early February and the game is now part of NYT Games. It's played via the NYT Games website here (opens in new tab), and is entirely free. Both the NYT and the game's creator, Josh Wardle, have stated that it will remain free. Some people think that Wordle has got harder since the NYT takeover, but it really hasn't. Wordle is a simple game in which your challenge is to guess a five-letter word in six attempts. Each time you guess, you're told which of your chosen letters are in the target word, and whether they are in the right place. If a letter is in the correct place, it turns green. If it's in the word but in the wrong place, it turns yellow. And if it's not in the word at all, it turns gray. There's just one puzzle a day, and everyone completes the same one. It resets at midnight each day. You'll find more information about the game in our What is Wordle? article. Wordle Alternatives If you're eager for another game to pass the time while you wait, we've put together a list of the best Wordle alternatives. We also have a page on today's Quordle answers, because it's our favorite, and also today's Heardle answer - because that's great too. Other Wordle alternatives to try are the ultra-stressful (but very good) Squabble and the soccer-themed, Who Are Ya?. We also like the geography-based Wordle clone Worldle, the Star Wars-themed SWordle and the math-based Mathler. 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When she's not watching TV and movies for work, she's watching them for fun, seeing live music, writing songs, knitting and gardening.With contributions fromAlan Martin Marc McLaren Topics Gaming Internet Software See all comments (30) 30 Comments Comment from the forums fraochmuir There is no yellow E in Stare for March 27th. Reply John II I used to use SUITE which uses 3 common vowels and 2 common consonants. Lately, it seems like some of the words have been a bit more obscure, so I've switched to HAVER (thanks goes out to The Proclaimers and 500 Miles for this obscure word). If no hits, that's fine, I burn some more letters to narrow the field by using two more vowels and other common consonants... MOIST. Yeah, I know... no one likes MOIST, but it reveals two more vowels and three more consonants . That combo helped me get today's HAIRY on the third guess! 🆒 Reply Nhobuna The may 10th answer might also be a double. I was working through it but I have a b,u, and t as letters that are in the actual word. Reply TexTechie There are 2 answers again evidently.. I have the same word as you and it's not gecko obviously 😅 Reply Scotth71 Far from Gecko for me. Not sure what is going on but seems someone has mucked up. Reply SS2021user Was in the exakt same position with the end of 335, but chose wrong. Didn't think GAMER would be a very likely word, so I chose GAZER instead. Goodbye 40 day streak! Reply Jarmeister Ugh. Today's (#344) was near impossible for a non native English speaker. Word I've only heard in couple of songs and would probably not use naturally in conversation. Reply JES2000 I'm surprised to see the misspelled "alright" in a wordle story. Reply SS2021user I got Wordle 348 in 3 guesses as well, but I got... slightly luckier with my second guess. After guessing STARE I guessed PHONY, leaving me with 1 possible solution, and 4 green letters. Reply R_macus Streak ended with #357. 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