If you're finding Tuesday's Wordle puzzle a challenge, this guide offers a hint and the day's answer. The popular word-guessing game presents players with a five-letter word to decipher within six attempts, using feedback from each guess to narrow down possibilities.
Today's Wordle Hint
For Wordle #1914 on September 15, 2026, the word relates to being handed or having handled something. The word begins with the letter 'D' and ends with 'T'. It contains two vowels and consists of five unique letters. A strong starting word that reveals three yellow letters is 'earth'.
The Answer to Today's Wordle
The solution to today's Wordle puzzle is DEALT.
Dealt is the past tense of the verb 'deal.' It can signify that something has been handled or taken care of, or that something has been distributed, such as a hand of cards.
Sharing Your Wordle Results
Wordle includes a built-in feature for sharing your progress without revealing the day's answer. After completing or failing the puzzle, tap the "SHARE" button in the statistics panel. This will copy a spoiler-free summary to your clipboard, which can then be pasted into messages or social media posts. On mobile devices, you can also share directly to other apps.
How to Play Wordle
The objective of Wordle is to correctly guess a five-letter word in six tries. Each guess provides color-coded feedback: green for letters in the correct position, yellow for letters present but in the wrong position, and grey for letters not in the word at all. Players can visit the official Wordle website to play.
Wordle's Origins and Evolution
Wordle originated as a personal project by software engineer Josh Wardle, who created it as a game for himself and his partner during the pandemic. Released publicly in October 2021, the game rapidly gained popularity, attracting millions of daily players. Its viral success was partly due to the easily shareable, spoiler-free results format. In January 2022, The New York Times acquired Wordle for a seven-figure sum.
While players can input most five-letter words, the daily answers are drawn from a curated list of more common words. The New York Times avoids obscure words and also steers clear of answers that might be considered politically charged or offensive, such as adjusting the word from 'FETUS' to 'SHINE' in response to news events. The game will not accept profanity as an answer, though such words can still be used as guesses.
Enhancing Wordle Difficulty
Players seeking a greater challenge can enable Hard Mode, which requires all revealed letters to be incorporated into subsequent guesses. An even stricter approach, dubbed "Ultra-Hard" rules, mandates that every guess must be a potential answer, adhering strictly to all prior clues. For those who find the base game too simple, numerous Wordle-inspired alternatives exist, including Worldle (geography-based), Waffle (letter-swapping puzzles), Moviedle (movie identification), and Quordle (solving four Wordles simultaneously). Additional resources, such as lists of effective starting words and archives of past answers, are available to aid players.