About TodaysWordleHint.com
This site publishes daily hints and answers for NYT Wordle, Connections, and Strands. Every puzzle gets played before anything goes live. The hints, difficulty ratings, and walkthrough on each page come from an actual solve — not assembled after the fact from someone else’s write-up.
Who Writes This Site
I’m not a journalist and I’m not affiliated with The New York Times. I’m someone who plays these puzzles every day and has put together a page that gives you what I’d want when I’m stuck — a hint that doesn’t spoil the answer, and enough explanation to understand why that hint matters. The daily write-up takes about an hour. The solve itself happens first, before I look at anything else.
Two puzzles I remember clearly: one where I submitted the obvious grouping in Connections on the first guess and it turned out to be the red herring — that mistake cost me my streak at the time, and it’s part of why the red herring section on the Connections page gets written the way it does. The other is a Wordle where I was certain of the answer on guess five, second-guessed myself, and lost. Both mistakes made the writeups better than they would have been if I’d solved clean.
How the Content Works
Every page on this site follows the same process. It doesn’t vary by day or by puzzle.
Daily Process — In Order
The walkthrough sections include mistakes when they happen — a wrong Connections group, an extra Wordle guess. A clean solve path written after the fact isn’t useful to someone who is stuck. An honest account of how the puzzle played out is.
What This Site Covers
Three NYT Games puzzles, updated daily. Each page is independent — you don’t need to read all three to use any one of them.
Why This Site Exists
Most Wordle hint pages give you the answer and move on. A few give you a hint or two. Almost none explain why a particular puzzle was hard, what the trap was that caught most players, or what the actual logic was behind the solve path.
That’s what I wanted when I started looking for hints myself. Not just the answer — but why it was harder than it looked, what the remaining candidates were at guess three, and what specific constraint resolved the whole thing. The pages on this site are written the way I’d want a hint page written if I were the one stuck on the puzzle.
There’s also a practical reason: I play these games every day anyway. Writing them up properly doesn’t add much time to something I’m already doing, and the end result is more useful than anything I found when I first started looking for help.
Disclaimer
Independence from The New York Times
TodaysWordleHint.com is an independent site. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to The New York Times Company in any way. Wordle, NYT Connections, and NYT Strands are trademarks of The New York Times Company. This site provides independent commentary, hints, and analysis for players of those games.
Difficulty ratings on this site (Medium-Hard, Medium+, etc.) are editorial assessments, not official NYT classifications. NYT tester averages cited on daily pages come from figures reported publicly by NYT Games and referenced by third-party puzzle sites on the date of each puzzle — they are noted with that context on every page where they appear. WordleBot scores cited on this site come from publicly available WordleBot reports and do not require a subscription to reference. Starting word scores are sourced from WordleBot’s published rankings, last verified September 2026.
Accuracy commitment: Every answer on this site is verified before the page goes live. If a mistake is found after publication — wrong answer, wrong puzzle number, incorrect difficulty data — it gets corrected the same day. If you spot an error, email alex@todayswordlehint.com with the puzzle number and the specific detail that’s wrong. Corrections are the first thing that gets handled each day.
Contact
For corrections, feedback, or anything else related to content on this site — email is the right place. Response time is usually within 24 hours.