For players seeking assistance with the daily Wordle challenge, a set of hints and the official answer for the July 18, 2026, puzzle are available. The game, which requires players to guess a five-letter word in six tries, provides contextual clues with each submission.
Today's Wordle Clues
The solution for today's Wordle, puzzle number 1855 on July 18, is a word meaning a small, private space. The word begins with the letter 'B' and concludes with 'H'. It contains two vowels and features four unique letters.
A recommended starting word to help narrow down possibilities is "THROB," which is noted to turn four letters yellow, indicating their presence in the answer but in incorrect positions.
The Wordle Answer and Definition
Today's Wordle answer is BOOTH.
A booth is defined as a small, enclosed area designed for increased privacy, such as those found in voting stations, photo studios, or dining establishments. The term can also refer to a small market stand.
Sharing Your Wordle Results
Wordle includes a built-in feature to share results without revealing the daily word. After completing a puzzle, a statistics panel appears, offering a "SHARE" button. On PC, this copies the results to the clipboard for pasting elsewhere. On mobile devices, users can either copy to the clipboard or share directly to other applications.
How to Play Wordle
Wordle's objective is to correctly guess a five-letter word within six attempts. Each guess provides feedback: green for correct letters in the right place, yellow for correct letters in the wrong place, and grey for letters not present in the word. These color-coded clues help players deduce the target word.
The game originated as a personal project by software engineer Josh Wardle, created for him and his partner during the COVID-19 pandemic. Its public release in October 2021 led to rapid growth, attracting two million daily players by the end of the year. The New York Times acquired Wordle in January 2022 for a seven-figure sum.
While players can input any five-letter word, the daily answers are drawn from a more limited list of common words. The New York Times occasionally removes potentially controversial words from the answer list, as seen when "FETUS" was replaced with "SHINE" around the time of the Roe v. Wade news.
Increasing Wordle Difficulty
Players looking for a greater challenge can enable Hard Mode in the game's settings. This mode requires all subsequent guesses to incorporate any correctly placed or hinted letters. An even stricter approach, termed "Ultra-Hard" rules, mandates that every guess must be a potential solution based on all preceding clues. For those finding the game too simple, numerous Wordle-inspired alternatives exist, including Worldle (geography guessing), Waffle (letter rearrangement), Moviedle (movie guessing), and Quordle (solving four Wordles simultaneously).