People all over the world love playing Wordle and the game has remained popular since it first went public in 2021.
Keegan-Michael Key, the Emmy Award-winning star of Key & Peele, last year teamed up with the New York Times—the newspaper bought the game from its inventor, Josh Wardle in January 2022—to invite players to compete against him in their game group chats.
“There’s a fun sense of accomplishment that comes with starting the day solving a New York Times game,” Key said in 2023.
Even comedy legends and co-stars of Apple TV+ series Palm Royale, Carol Burnett and Allison Janney compared their results almost every day. Burnett described the game as “fun.”
“Allison and I, we Wordle,” Burnett told Entertainment Tonight in April 2023. “We just Wordle back and forth.”
Other celebrities who apparently love Wordle have included Taylor Swift, Meghan Markle and Bradley Cooper.
Wordle involves guessing a five-letter word in six attempts or fewer. Players start by typing in a word. They then use the process of elimination to solve the puzzle.
A colored tile system helps along the way, letting you know if you’re on the right track. A green tile means the letter is in the word and in the correct spot. A yellow tile means the letter is in the word but in the wrong location. And a gray tile means the letter is not in the word at all.
If you need help working out Friday’s answer, check out our collection of clues below. But scroll with caution because the answer is revealed at the end of this article.
Newsweek has put together five clues to help you solve today’s Wordle brainteaser.
Hint #1: Today’s answer is both a noun and a verb.
Hint #2: It contains no repeated letters.
Hint #3: The answer contains two vowels.
Hint #4: Friday’s Wordle has one syllable.
Hint #5: Synonyms include “pollution” and “exhaust.”
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‘Wordle’ #1,189 Answer for Friday, September 20 Game
The answer to Thursday’s Wordle is “smoke.”
According to the Merriam-Webster, the word has multiple definitions.
Congratulations if you got it right, but don’t worry if you didn’t. Wordle updates every day at midnight in your local time zone, so you’ll soon get another opportunity to play. Newsweek will be back with another round of hints and tips for each new game.
In the meantime, have you tried playing Connections? Newsweek also has daily tips to help you solve that game.
