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Hints and the answer to today’s Wordle word
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Looking for the Wordle answer for Tuesday 2 August 2022?It’s hard to believe that this time last year, most of us hadn’t even heard ofWordle. This simple word puzzle game has proven to be not only compelling, but extremely easy to work into your daily routine, meaning that players keep coming back day after day even months after it first saw phenomenal success.
In this guide, we’ll provide you with a handful of clues to point you in the direction of today’s Wordle answer if you need some help. Or, if you’re looking for the answer (or its definition), scroll down below the video into spoiler territory to see today’s solution in full.
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Wordle August 2 hints
Having a bit of trouble reaching the Wordle answer today? Here are a few hints to help you along:
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Today’s Wordle answer August 2
It’s time to reveal the answer to today’s Wordle. The word is…
COYLY.
If someone is behaving coyly, it means they’re being shy or reluctant, although how much of this is for show can vary. Someone might be genuinely coy about revealing a piece of information which they’re not sure they should share just yet; but an appearance of coyness might, counterintuitively, actually be a form of flirtation. I suggest you adopt the former approach when it comes to revealing today’s Wordle answer: play it coy until tomorrow, and don’t risk spoiling it for other players.
How to play Wordle
Wordle is a very straightforward word guessing game. The aim is to guess the correct five-letter word in just six guesses. With each guess, the individual letters of your chosen word will highlight green if they’re in the correct place, or yellow if they’re in the wrong place. If a letter doesn’t appear in the solution word at all, it’ll remain unhighlighted.
How did Wordle begin?
Are any Wordle words not allowed?
You can type in pretty much any five-letter word in the English language and Wordle will accept it as a guess. However, the answer is picked each day from a much smaller list of more common five-letter words. There are still thousands of possible answers, of course, but it means the answer will never be a word as obscure as, say, “THIOL”, or “CAIRD”, or “MALIC” (yes, those are all real words).
There are very occasional words which the New York Times will choose not to publish as the day’s Wordle answer, perhaps for reasons relating to recent news or politics. For example, shortly after news broke that Roe v Wade might be overturned in the United States, the NYT decided to change the March 30th word from “FETUS” to “SHINE”, as the feeling was that the word “fetus” was too politically charged a word in the context of recent events.
The New York Times has also been careful never to allow what they consider to be rude words as the answer to a Wordle puzzle. But of course there’s nothing stopping you from using even the dirtiest of words as guesses, as long as they’re accepted words in the dictionary, and as long as you realise that they’ll never end up being the answer.
Is Wordle getting too easy for you?
If after all that Wordle is still too easy for you, then you could always try one of the many other Wordle-inspired games online that have cropped up over the past year. One of our favourites isWorldle, in which you must guess a country of the world based on its shape. There’s alsoWaffle, which is about swapping letters in a completed grid to complete all the words;Moviedle, which shows you an entire movie in a tiny space of time and challenges you to guess the movie within six guesses; andQuordle, which tasks you with solving four Wordles at once with the same guesses.
Today’s Wordle solution was a little bit on the tricky side, don’t you think? If you struggled, you might find our guide to thebest Wordle starting wordssets you up for an easier go of it next time. We’ve also got a comprehensive list of all thepast Wordle answersif you want to know which words have been and gone already.
Use ourWordle Solver toolto help you figure out the answer to any Wordle in moments! Just pop your current guesses in the grid and watch the tool instantly give you all the potential answers.
