Today's Wordle Hints and Answer for Aug. 12, #1150 by Trending News

there are plenty of other online word games now but I still play the New York Times worldle game every day these days it's not only an old friend it's also a nice warm-up for connections strands and the rest usually I can get the Wordle answer in five tries but sometimes I get stuck and worry that I might lose my streak if you ever find yourself stumped check CNET our homepage always has the answers for Wordle connections and strands here's the connections answer for today and here's the answer for strands also we've ranked all the letters in the alphabet by popularity if you want to use this list to decide on your best start words today's Wordle hints before we show you today's Wordle answer we'll give you some hints if you don't want a spoiler Look Away Now Wordle hint number one repeats today's Wordle answer has one repeated letter Wordle hint number two vowels there is one vowel in today's Wordle answer Wordle hint number three first letter today's Wordle answer starts with the letter S word hint number four ending today's Wordle answer ends with the repeated letter Wordle hint number five meaning today's Wordle answer refers to a shallow flat bottomed Open Boat today's Wordle answer today's Wordle answer is skiff yesterday's Wordle answer August 11th number 1,149 was scone past Word answers include August 7th number 1,145 mcau August 8th number 1,146 soury August 9th number 1,147 o and August 10th number 1,148 medic I've written a lot about Wordle from covering its 1,000th word to my list of the best starter words to a helpful two-step strategy to news about controversial word changes I've even rounded up what I learned playing the hit online word puzzle for a full year if you're rethinking your need for the actual answer you might try tips from one of those stories still need a starter word one person told me they just looked around and choose a felet object that they've spotted to use as their starter word such as couch or chair I tend to stick to starter words that have the most popular letters used in English words I like train as a starter though I have a friend who uses Trail I've read that people use the financial term wrote but I like to use words I actually know if you read this far you know how to play you have six chances to guess a felet word and the game gives you feedback as to whether the letters you've guessed are in the puzzle or not and if they're in the same spot where you guess they are the New York Times bought the game from Creator Josh wle for seven figures in 2022 wle famously created the game for his partner and let her narrow down the 12,5 letter words in the English language to just 2,500 creating the database of answers it was convenient too that he has a name that plays off word a Time spokesperson told me at lists the very first word is appearing on June 19th 2021 and the paper celebrated the game's 1,000th word on March 15th spoiler that 1,000th word was erupt as in dad will erupt if the world is so tough he loses his streak