How to solve today’s Wordle.
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The weekend is almost here, dearest Wordlers, but even if the week is ending, our quest to solve every single Wordle doesn’t stop with the weekend. It’s Friday which means it’s also 2XP Friday for Competitive Wordle players. Double your points, good or bad, and hope you beat your rivals. I’ve had a great month against the dastardly Wordle Bot — after a couple months of losing. I’m sick of losing to artificial intelligence, so my inevitable October victory rings sweet. Let’s solve this Wordle!
Looking for Thursday’s Wordle? Check out our guide right here.
How To Solve Today’s Wordle
How To Play Wordle
Wordle is a daily word puzzle game where your goal is to guess a hidden five-letter word in six tries or fewer. After each guess, the game gives feedback to help you get closer to the answer:
- Green: The letter is in the word and in the correct spot.
- Yellow: The letter is in the word, but in the wrong spot.
- Gray: The letter is not in the word at all.
Use these clues to narrow down your guesses. Every day brings a new word, and everyone around the world is trying to solve the same puzzle. Some Wordlers also play Competitive Wordle against friends, family, the Wordle Bot or even against me, your humble narrator. See rules for Competitive Wordle toward the end of this post.
Today’s Wordle Hints And Answer
- Wordle Bot’s Starting Word: SLATE
- My Starting Word Today: CRATE (52 words remaining)
- The Hint: Potatoes and such.
- The Clue: This Wordle has more consonants than vowels.
Okay, spoilers below! The answer is coming!
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The Answer:
Today’s Wordle
Screenshot: Erik Kain
Wordle Bot Analysis
Every day I check Wordle Bot to help analyze my guessing game. You can check your Wordle score with Wordle Bot right here.
CRATE—a portmanteau of Wordle Bot’s two favorite starting words, CRANE and SLATE—was a good enough opening guess, giving me three yellow boxes and leaving me with just 52 possible solutions. TIMER slashed that down to just four, though I only came up with two before making my guess. I chose TUBER instead of TOWER because I’m pretty sure TOWER was already a Wordle and I was 99% sure TUBER had not been. Lucky for me, I was right! Huzzah!
Competitive Wordle Score
Today’s Wordle Bot
Screenshot: Erik Kain
I get 1 point for guessing in three and 1 for beating the Bot. That’s 2×2 = 4 points today due to 2XP Friday. The Bot, poor sad Bot, gets 0 for guessing in four and -1 for losing to me. Double that for -2 and the October gap widens into a gaping maw:
Erik: 22 points
Wordle Bot: 3 points
How To Play Competitive Wordle
- Guessing in 1 is worth 3 points; guessing in 2 is worth 2 points; guessing in 3 is worth 1 point; guessing in 4 is worth 0 points; guessing in 5 is -1 points; guessing in 6 is -2 points and missing the Wordle is -3 points.
- If you beat your opponent you get 1 point. If you tie, you get 0 points. And if you lose to your opponent, you get -1 point. Add it up to get your score. Keep a daily running score or just play for a new score each day.
- Fridays are 2XP, meaning you double your points—positive or negative.
- You can keep a running tally or just play day-by-day. Enjoy!
Today’s Wordle Etymology
The word tuber comes from Latin tuber, meaning “lump, bump, swelling.” It referred to any rounded protuberance, both on the body and in plants. The botanical sense (“underground stem or root”) dates to the early 17th century, extending the Latin meaning to the knobby growths of plants like potatoes.
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Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2025/10/23/todays-wordle-1588-hints-and-answer-for-friday-october-24/
