Wordle today: 493 answer and hint for Tuesday, October 25
The solution and a hint for Tuesday’s Wordle.
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Welcome to PC Gamer’s daily Wordle section. Here you’ll find all the tips and hints you need to make today’s puzzle fly by with ease, as well as the answer to the October 25 (493) challenge if you need it.
I ended up with just one green and absolutely nothing else by the end of my second go—the sort of situation where this could have gone either way. Luckily all of those worrying greys in my openers had ruled out just about anything other than the answer, so my third go neatly finished today’s Wordle.
Wordle hint
Wordle today: A hint for Tuesday, October 25
You’d use this word if you wanted to describe clouded, confused thinking—the sort of mindset where everything seems to be in a haze. This is also the term for any environment where there’s fog present. There’s a repeat consonant to find today.
Wordle help: 3 tips for beating Wordle every day
If there’s one thing better than playing Wordle, it’s playing Wordle well, which is why I’m going to share a few quick tips to help set you on the path to success:
There’s no time pressure beyond making sure it’s done by midnight. So there’s no reason to not treat the game like a casual newspaper crossword and come back to it later if you’re coming up blank.
Wordle answer
What is the Wordle 493 answer?
I won’t keep you away from your win any longer. The answer to the October 25 (493) Wordle isFOGGY.
Previous answers
Wordle archive: Which words have been used
The more past Wordle answers you can cram into your memory banks, the better your chances of guessing today’s Wordle answer without accidentally picking a solution that’s already been used. Past Wordle answers can also give you some excellent ideas for fun starting words that keep your daily puzzle solving fresh.
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Learn more about Wordle
Every day Wordle presents you with six rows of five boxes, and it’s up to you to work out which secret five-letter word is hiding inside them.
You’ll want tostart with a strong wordlike ALERT—something containing multiple vowels, common consonants, and no repeat letters. Hit Enter and the boxes will show you which letters you’ve got right or wrong. If a box turns ⬛️, it means that letter isn’t in the secret word at all. 🟨 means the letter is in the word, but not in that position. 🟩 means you’ve got the right letter in the right spot.
You’ll want your second go to compliment the first, using another “good” word to cover any common letters you missed last time while also trying to avoid any letter you now know for a fact isn’t present in today’s answer.
After that it’s just a case of using what you’ve learned to narrow your guesses down to the right word. You have six tries in total and can only use real words (so no filling the boxes with EEEEE to see if there’s an E). Don’t forget letters can repeat too (ex: BOOKS).
If you need any further advice feel free to check out ourWordle tips, and if you’d like to find out which words have already been used you’ll find those below.
Originally, Wordle was dreamed up by software engineerJosh Wardle, as a surprise for his partner who loves word games. From there it spread to his family, and finally got released to the public. The word puzzle game has since inspired tons ofgames like Wordle, refocusing the daily gimmick around music or math or geography. It wasn’t long before Wordle became so popular it wassold to the New York Times for seven figures. Surely it’s only a matter of time before we all solely communicate in tricolor boxes.
When baby Kerry was brought home from the hospital her hand was placed on the space bar of the family Atari 400, a small act of parental nerdery that has snowballed into a lifelong passion for gaming and the sort of freelance job her school careers advisor told her she couldn’t do. She’s now PC Gamer’s word game expert, taking on the dailyWordlepuzzle to give readers a hint each and every day. Her Wordle streak is truly mighty.
Somehow Kerry managed to get away with writing regular features onold Japanese PC games, telling today’s PC gamers about some of the most fascinating and influential games of the ’80s and ’90s.
Death of the Reprobate’s creator drew inspiration from the timeless art of Hieronymous Bosch, Bruegel, and the poop joke
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