EDITOR'S NOTE: This article is for Wordle answer #413; the August 7th Wordle answer is available now.
August 6th has a brand new Wordle word for players to guess and despite how quickly we may have gotten it, this day could cause some trouble for players without a solid starting word. One of the most important aspects of any Wordle attempt is the starting word used. A perfect word needs to combine a smart amount of vowels, peppered with some common consonants. For a starting word to be viable, players must know where to go depending on what hints were provided from the first guess. Having a Wordle starting word combo is another good idea to get even more letters thrown out at the start of the game, but it does waste a guess overall.
For those players who like a bit more of a challenge, there are a large amount of Wordle copycats that increase the difficulty of the original game. Games like Squabble take the Wordle gameplay and turn it into a high-pressure Battle Royale game. There is also Quordle, which forces players to complete four Wordle puzzles at the exact same time. These play-a-likes are great if players are looking for more fun after their once-a-day Wordle puzzle.
Today's Wordle Hints (August 6th #413)
For those players that just need a little help in guessing today's Wordle, here are a few hints that should get them on the right track.
- Hint 1: There are no repeated letters in today's Wordle word.
- Hint 2: Three out of five of the letters are vowels.
- Hint 3: The truth is out there.
If these hints weren't enough to give away the daily word, below is the fully spoiled answer to today's Wordle.
Today's Wordle Answer (August 6th #413)
The answer to today's Wordle is ALIEN.
We actually got extremely lucky in today's game and scored a win in two guesses. For our starting Wordle word we used IRATE, which is our standard go-to for starting words. This provided a lot of information in the fact that there were three correct letters, in the incorrect spots, 'I', 'A', and 'E'. This provided a ton of information without anything else surrounding it since very few five-letter words contain all of those vowels together, and the ones that we could actually think about would be words that end in 'ER', but 'R' was already taken off the table. We would love to say that the answer came super quick, but it really didn't, there was a lot of mixing the vowels around on the board trying different places until a little lightbulb went off and we realized it was right there all along. That is when we got ALIEN and had a Wordle win-in-two.