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Megan Cartwright is Newsweek’s Deputy Entertainment Editor, based in London, U.K. Her focus is on U.S. pop culture and entertainment news stories. Megan joined Newsweek in 2022 from New York where she was the Senior Editor for In Touch, Life & Style and Closer magazines and had previously interned at MTV, Cosmopolitan and InStyle. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University. Languages: English.
You can get in touch with Megan by emailing m.cartwright@newsweek.com.
Megan Cartwright
Deputy Entertainment Editor
If today’s Wordle has left you staring blankly at your screen, Newsweek has gathered all of the information you need to secure a win.
Wordle creator Josh Wardle, a Welsh-born software engineer based in New York City, perfected the brainteaser during the COVID-19 lockdowns before releasing it to the public in October 2021. Several months later, The New York Times purchased the game for a seven-figure fee that has never been made public.
How to Play ‘Wordle’Players get six attempts to guess a five-letter word. Green boxes behind each letter indicate the letter is in the word and in the correct place; yellow boxes indicate the letter is in the word, though not in the correct spot; and gray boxes indicate the letter is not in the word whatsoever.
In an interview with Newsweek in 2022, Wardle said he is “reluctant to tell anybody how they should play,” but encouraged users “to experiment with different ideas and to find their own [starting] words, rather than just sticking to the same proven tactics over and over again.”
“A lot of people tend to think that the game is just about finding those green and gold letters. If you get those, then you theoretically have the information you need, but you don’t want to get too hung up on that,” Wardle added.
“Even when you have most of the letters, it’s still worth using a couple of tries to just narrow down the options further. It’s often just as important to learn what letters aren’t in a word. That information can actually be more powerful in a lot of ways, and you don’t necessarily realize it at first.”
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Newsweek’s clues for today’s Wordle are:
Hint #1: The answer starts with the letter “T.”
Hint #2: There is a repeated letter.
Hint #3: It rhymes with “dupe.”
Hint #4: It can be a noun or a verb.
Hint #5: It is one syllable.
‘Wordle’ #1,357, Answer for Friday, March 7The answer to today’s Wordle is “Troop.”
As a noun, Merriam-Webster defines the term as “a group of soldiers,” “a collection of people or things,” “a flock of mammals or birds” and “the basic organizational unit of Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts under an adult leader.”
As a verb, it means “to move or gather in crowds,” “to go one’s way,” “to spend time together” and “to move in large numbers.”
Remarkable job if you beat today’s Wordle game! If you didn’t, though, don’t worry. You’ll be pleased to hear that Wordle is released at midnight in your local time zone, which means you will get another chance to play on Saturday.
Patiently waiting for the next Wordle to be released? Bide your time with these other popular word-based games.
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Megan Cartwright is Newsweek’s Deputy Entertainment Editor, based in London, U.K. Her focus is on U.S. pop culture and entertainment news stories. Megan joined Newsweek in 2022 from New York where she was the Senior Editor for In Touch, Life & Style and Closer magazines and had previously interned at MTV, Cosmopolitan and InStyle. She is a graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University. Languages: English.
You can get in touch with Megan by emailing m.cartwright@newsweek.com.
Megan Cartwright
Megan Cartwright is Newsweek’s Deputy Entertainment Editor, based in London, U.K. Her focus is on U.S. pop culture and entertainment …
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