Yesterday's Wordle answer (game #1499) was… WHOLE. WHOLE offers a little respite from what has been a very difficult week of Wordles, with its score of 3.6 making it only the second one in the past seven days to dip below 4.0 (the other was Tuesday's BURNT, at 3.5).

As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed.

Move over, Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times's recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity fans can find on the NYT website and app.