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If you’re looking for the Wordle answer for October 4, 2024 read on. We’ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solution. Today’s puzzle is easier; I got it in three. Beware, there are spoilers below for October 4, Wordle #1,203! Keep scrolling if you want some hints (and then the answer) to today’s Wordle game.

How to play Wordle

Wordle lives here on the New York Times website. A new puzzle goes live every day at midnight, your local time.

Start by guessing a five-letter word. The letters of the word will turn green if they’re correct, yellow if you have the right letter in the wrong place, or gray if the letter isn’t in the day’s secret word at all. For more, check out our guide to playing Wordle here, and my strategy guide here for more advanced tips. (We also have more information at the bottom of this post, after the hints and answers.)

Ready for the hints? Let’s go!

Does today’s Wordle have any unusual letters?

We’ll define common letters as those that appear in the old typesetters’ phrase ETAOIN SHRDLU. (Memorize this! Pronounce it “Edwin Shirdloo,” like a name, and pretend he’s a friend of yours.)

They’re all common letters from our mnemonic today!

Can you give me a hint for today’s Wordle?

In one definition, this is a document related to your car or house.

Does today’s Wordle have any double or repeated letters?

There is one repeated letter today. 

How many vowels are in today’s Wordle?

There are two vowels.

What letter does today’s Wordle start with?

Today’s word starts with T. 

What letter does today’s Wordle end with?

Today’s word ends with E. 

What is the solution to today’s Wordle?

Ready? Today’s word is TITLE.

How I solved today’s Wordle

I started with RAISE and TOUCH, which left only a few possible answers—TITLE was the best guess.

Wordle 1,203 3/6

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Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle was medium difficult. The hint was “you can haul kids in this” and the answer contained three common letters, one somewhat common letter, and one uncommon letter.

The answer to yesterday’s Wordle was WAGON.

A primer on Wordle basics

The idea of Wordle is to guess the day’s secret word. When you first open the Wordle game, you’ll see an empty grid of letters. It’s up to you to make the first move: type in any five-letter word. 

Now, you can use the colors that are revealed to get clues about the word: Green means you correctly guessed a letter, and it’s in the correct position. (For example, if you guess PARTY, and the word is actually PURSE, the P and R will be green.)

• Yellow means the letter is somewhere in the word, but not in the position you guessed it. (For example, if you guessed PARTY, but the word is actually ROAST, the R, A and T will all be yellow.)

• Gray means the letter is not in the solution word at all. (If you guessed PARTY and everything is gray, then the solution cannot be PURSE or ROAST.)

With all that in mind, guess another word, and then another, trying to land on the correct word before you run out of chances. You get six guesses, and then it’s game over.

The best starter words for Wordle

What should you play for that first guess? The best starters tend to contain common letters, to increase the chances of getting yellow and green squares to guide your guessing. (And if you get all grays when guessing common letters, that’s still excellent information to help you rule out possibilities.) There isn’t a single “best” starting word, but the New York Times’s Wordle analysis bot has suggested starting with one of these:

• CRANE

• TRACE

• SLANT

• CRATE

• CARTE

Meanwhile, an MIT analysis found that you’ll eliminate the most possibilities in the first round by starting with one of these:

• SALET

• REAST

• TRACE

• CRATE

• SLATE

Other good picks might be ARISE or ROUND. Words like ADIEU and AUDIO get more vowels in play, but you could argue that it’s better to start with an emphasis on consonants, using a starter like RENTS or CLAMP. Choose your strategy, and see how it plays out.

How to win at Wordle

We have a few guides to Wordle strategy, which you might like to read over if you’re a serious student of the game. This one covers how to use consonants to your advantage, while this one focuses on a strategy that uses the most common letters. In this advanced guide, we detail a three-pronged approach for fishing for hints while maximizing your chances of winning quickly.

The biggest thing that separates Wordle winners from Wordle losers is that winners use their guesses to gather information about what letters are in the word. If you know that the word must end in -OUND, don’t waste four guesses on MOUND, ROUND, SOUND, and HOUND; combine those consonants and guess MARSH. If the H lights up in yellow, you know the solution.

One more note on strategy: the original Wordle used a list of about 2,300 solution words, but after the game was bought by the NYT, the game now has an editor who hand-picks the solutions. Sometimes they are slightly tricky words that wouldn’t have made the original list, and sometimes they are topical. For example, FEAST was the solution one Thanksgiving. So keep in mind that there may be a theme.

Wordle alternatives

If you can’t get enough of five-letter guessing games and their kin, the best Wordle alternatives, ranked by difficulty, include:

• Wheeldle, which lets you play one puzzle after another

• Dordle and Quordle, which ask you to play two (Dordle) or four (Quordle) puzzles at the same time, with the same guesses. There is also Octordle, with eight puzzles, and Sedecordle, with 16.

• Waffle, which shows you several five-letter words, scrambled in a grid; you play by swapping the letters around until you solve.

• Absurdle, which changes the solution after each guess, but needs to stay consistent with its previous feedback. You have to strategically back it into a corner until there is only one possible word left; then you guess it, and win.

• Squabble, in which you play Wordle against other people with a timer running. You take damage if you spend too much time between guesses; winner is the last one standing.

• Antiwordle, in which you are trying not to guess the day’s solution. You’re required to reuse any letters that you (oops) guessed correctly, so the longer it takes you, the better you are at the game.

Since ChatGPT launched in late 2022, people have been using it and other generative AI tools for both writing and coding, to varying degrees of success. OpenAI seems to be banking on its models being capable collaboration tools, as its now introducing “canvas,” a feature that essentially turns ChatGPT into an AI-powered word processor.

Canvas is built on OpenAI’s GPT-4o model. As such, you can choose “ChatGPT 4o with canvas” from the model selector to actively engage the feature. However, OpenAI also built canvas to launch automatically depending on the prompt. If you ask ChatGPT to write a blog post, for example, canvas is supposed to open. (You can also just ask ChatGPT to open canvas for you.) OpenAI says it has also trained the feature to avoid launching when you ask ChatGPT for help with things that likely won’t need such an involved editing process.

When active, canvas opens your query into a new window, displaying your text or code as if in Google Docs or Word. From here, you can continue writing like any other word processor: The idea isn’t to let ChatGPT do all the work, since you can continue writing whatever you want at any time.

Of course, you can pull in ChatGPT for assistance whenever writer’s block strikes. You can highlight individual words, sentences, or paragraphs, and while you have access to formatting options like bold, italics, and heading size, you can also click Ask ChatGPT to inquire about your selection. I typed “hello” at the bottom of my text, highlighted it, and asked ChatGPT if the word was out of place. Rather than give me an answer, ChatGPT simply deleted the word, and said it “removed the word ‘hello’ that seemed out of place.”

When your canvas is set for writing text (as opposed to code), there are five main ChatGPT shortcuts you’ll find in the bottom right corner of the window:

• Add emojis: This option automatically sprinkles emojis throughout your document with “relevant” icons. It’s likely useless, unless you really want to piss off whoever you’re sending this text to.

• Add final polish: ChatGPT will check your text for things like grammar and clarity, and automatically make changes accordingly.

• Change reading level: This option adjusts the reading level of your piece. You can choose from Kindergarten, Middle School, High School, College, and Graduate School. In my experience, Graduate School seems to throw “big” words in at random, like “imperative” and “facilitate,” while I think Kindergarteners would struggle to read what ChatGPT thinks is a piece written at their reading level.

• Adjust the length: You can choose to have ChatGPT make your piece longer or shorter.

• Suggest edits: Choose this, and ChatGPT will go through your piece and highlight portions where it’d make changes. It feels like an editor returning a Google Doc to you with inline notes. You can choose to automatically apply any of these suggestions, or dismiss them. For example, ChatGPT wanted me to remove the emojis it added on two different occasions. I refused.

With canvas, OpenAI is competing somewhat with other generative AI writing tools, perhaps most notably Anthropic’s Artifacts, which lets you move content to a dedicated window. Apple Intelligence also comes to mind, as well, since you can call upon Apple’s AI at any time to help rewrite your text. Of course, it’s also similar to AI assistants in dedicated word processors, like Gemini in Google Docs, or Copilot in Microsoft Word.

Ideally, I could see the feature having some merit. An AI editor could be useful for pointing out places in your text that could be clearer, helping you learn to be a better writing and self-editor. In practice, however, it suffers from the usual issues generative AI text is known for: For example, changing the reading level, especially boosting it up, usually means awkwardly swapping in larger words whenever the bot finds an opportunity. I also found many the editing suggestions a bit useless, or an attempt to take the personality out of the writing. This is still in beta, but as with most AI writing tools, I’ll pass on canvas for my own work.

Canvas is also designed for editing code, as well. I don’t know how to code, so I can’t speak to personal experience, but OpenAI says coding shortcuts include:

• Review code: Similar to Suggest Edits, this option suggests inline edits to your code.

• Add logs: This option adds print statements to help you debug and understand your code.

• Add comments: Inserts comments alongside the code so its easier to understand.

• Fix bugs: Find problems and rewrites code to fix them.

• Port to a language: Translates code into JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, C++, or PHP.

If you’re interested in trying out the canvas beta, you’ll need to be a ChatGPT Plus or Teams subscriber. If so, the feature is out right now. As OpenAI continues to test it, the company will roll it out to free accounts sometime in the future.

If you’re looking for the Wordle answer for October 3, 2024 read on. We’ll share some clues, tips, and strategies, and finally the solution. Today’s puzzle is medium difficult; I got it in four. Beware, there are spoilers below for October 3, Wordle #1,202! Keep scrolling if you want some hints (and then the answer) to today’s Wordle game.

How to play Wordle

Wordle lives here on the New York Times website. A new puzzle goes live every day at midnight, your local time.

Start by guessing a five-letter word. The letters of the word will turn green if they’re correct, yellow if you have the right letter in the wrong place, or gray if the letter isn’t in the day’s secret word at all. For more, check out our guide to playing Wordle here, and my strategy guide here for more advanced tips. (We also have more information at the bottom of this post, after the hints and answers.)

Ready for the hints? Let’s go!

Does today’s Wordle have any unusual letters?

We’ll define common letters as those that appear in the old typesetters’ phrase ETAOIN SHRDLU. (Memorize this! Pronounce it “Edwin Shirdloo,” like a name, and pretend he’s a friend of yours.)

There are three common letters from our mnemonic today! One is somewhat common, and one is uncommon.

Can you give me a hint for today’s Wordle?

You can haul kids in this.

Does today’s Wordle have any double or repeated letters?

There are no repeated letters today. 

How many vowels are in today’s Wordle?

There are two vowels.

What letter does today’s Wordle start with?

Today’s word starts with W. 

What letter does today’s Wordle end with?

Today’s word ends with N. 

What is the solution to today’s Wordle?

Ready? Today’s word is WAGON.

How I solved today’s Wordle

I started with RAISE and TOUCH, followed by BLOND to eliminate the most common letters. I guessed WAGON, which was one of only a few possibilities with A as the second letter.

Wordle 1,202 4/6

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Yesterday’s Wordle answer

Yesterday’s Wordle was medium difficult. The hint was “you’ll find this on a beach” and the answer contained all common letters.

The answer to yesterday’s Wordle was SHELL.

A primer on Wordle basics

The idea of Wordle is to guess the day’s secret word. When you first open the Wordle game, you’ll see an empty grid of letters. It’s up to you to make the first move: type in any five-letter word. 

Now, you can use the colors that are revealed to get clues about the word: Green means you correctly guessed a letter, and it’s in the correct position. (For example, if you guess PARTY, and the word is actually PURSE, the P and R will be green.)

• Yellow means the letter is somewhere in the word, but not in the position you guessed it. (For example, if you guessed PARTY, but the word is actually ROAST, the R, A and T will all be yellow.)

• Gray means the letter is not in the solution word at all. (If you guessed PARTY and everything is gray, then the solution cannot be PURSE or ROAST.)

With all that in mind, guess another word, and then another, trying to land on the correct word before you run out of chances. You get six guesses, and then it’s game over.

The best starter words for Wordle

What should you play for that first guess? The best starters tend to contain common letters, to increase the chances of getting yellow and green squares to guide your guessing. (And if you get all grays when guessing common letters, that’s still excellent information to help you rule out possibilities.) There isn’t a single “best” starting word, but the New York Times’s Wordle analysis bot has suggested starting with one of these:

• CRANE

• TRACE

• SLANT

• CRATE

• CARTE

Meanwhile, an MIT analysis found that you’ll eliminate the most possibilities in the first round by starting with one of these:

• SALET

• REAST

• TRACE

• CRATE

• SLATE

Other good picks might be ARISE or ROUND. Words like ADIEU and AUDIO get more vowels in play, but you could argue that it’s better to start with an emphasis on consonants, using a starter like RENTS or CLAMP. Choose your strategy, and see how it plays out.

How to win at Wordle

We have a few guides to Wordle strategy, which you might like to read over if you’re a serious student of the game. This one covers how to use consonants to your advantage, while this one focuses on a strategy that uses the most common letters. In this advanced guide, we detail a three-pronged approach for fishing for hints while maximizing your chances of winning quickly.

The biggest thing that separates Wordle winners from Wordle losers is that winners use their guesses to gather information about what letters are in the word. If you know that the word must end in -OUND, don’t waste four guesses on MOUND, ROUND, SOUND, and HOUND; combine those consonants and guess MARSH. If the H lights up in yellow, you know the solution.

One more note on strategy: the original Wordle used a list of about 2,300 solution words, but after the game was bought by the NYT, the game now has an editor who hand-picks the solutions. Sometimes they are slightly tricky words that wouldn’t have made the original list, and sometimes they are topical. For example, FEAST was the solution one Thanksgiving. So keep in mind that there may be a theme.

Wordle alternatives

If you can’t get enough of five-letter guessing games and their kin, the best Wordle alternatives, ranked by difficulty, include:

• Wheeldle, which lets you play one puzzle after another

• Dordle and Quordle, which ask you to play two (Dordle) or four (Quordle) puzzles at the same time, with the same guesses. There is also Octordle, with eight puzzles, and Sedecordle, with 16.

• Waffle, which shows you several five-letter words, scrambled in a grid; you play by swapping the letters around until you solve.

• Absurdle, which changes the solution after each guess, but needs to stay consistent with its previous feedback. You have to strategically back it into a corner until there is only one possible word left; then you guess it, and win.

• Squabble, in which you play Wordle against other people with a timer running. You take damage if you spend too much time between guesses; winner is the last one standing.

• Antiwordle, in which you are trying not to guess the day’s solution. You’re required to reuse any letters that you (oops) guessed correctly, so the longer it takes you, the better you are at the game.

Amazon really wants to you to buy things during its Prime Big Deal Days. This year’s sale will take place October 8 and 9, and the mega-retailer is not only cutting prices (kind of) on thousands of products (whether you need them or not), it’s offering free money (in the form of credits that can only be spent on Amazon). You can grab $165 of Amazon’s money if you jump through the following digital hoops.

Get $15 for backing up pictures with Amazon Photos

If you’re an Amazon Prime member, you get free, unlimited photo storage with your membership, and if you take advantage of this promotion, Amazon will pay you $15 in credits for backing up your pictures. Here’s how:

• Download the Amazon Photo App. It’s available for iOS, Android, and desktop, but this offer only applies to the mobile version.

• Upload your photos. (Or photo; you only need to upload one.)

• Await your reward. A $15 credit should arrive in your email shortly.

This won’t work if you’ve used the app before, and the credit you receive has to be used by Prime Day. You need to hop on it quick, too: the offer is only open until midnight on October 3. The credits expires at midnight on the 9th, and it can only be used on an order of $30 or more.

Sign up for an Amazon Prime Visa card for $150

If you sign up for an Amazon Prime Visa credit card, and you’re approved, you’ll get an instant free $150 Amazon gift card.

If you shop at Amazon a lot, the card might prove a good deal, even without the free $150. It offers 5% discounts on Amazon purchases, Whole Foods purchases, and Chase travel, plus a 7% discount for anything you buy on Prime Days, as long as you choose no-rush shipping. There’s no annual fee if you’re a Prime member.

The APR is 19.99% to 28.74%, which is around the national average of just above 20%. The bad news: the rebate rate on non-Amazon purchases is 1%, so it’s really best if you do a lot of Amazon shopping.

Discounted Prime membership for students and others

Amazon Prime membership gives you free shipping on many Amazon items and access to Prime Video’s vast selection of movies and TV shows for $14.99 and month or $139 per year (worth it for the selection of mid 1960s Beach Party movies alone.) But if you’re an eligible student or receive EBT or other government benefits, Prime will only cost you $7.49 or $6.99 per month respectively. Definitely take advantage if you qualify.

You can already shop for early Prime Day deals

Some items are already marked down on Amazon in advance of Prime Big Deal Days, like this 55-Inch Amazon Fire TV Omni QLED. Lifehacker will be covering everything related to Prime Big Deal Days, so keep watch and stay alert.

I’ve spent a few years here at Lifehacker writing up or editing lists of all the movies coming to the biggest streaming services every month, and one thing I’ve taken note of, as a fan of the James Bond films, is how annoying it is to figure out where (and if) you can stream all 25 of the iconic spy films.

It’s rare for any one streamer to have more than a handful of them at a time, a situation that has persisted even after Amazon bought MGM, the film studio that owns the rights to the franchise, in 2021. As a customer in the modern streaming marketplace, it’s frustrating, but certainly not unprecedented state of affairs—though Paramount+ bills itself as the streaming home of the Star Trek franchise, for example, you can currently only stream three of the big-screen Trek films there.

There’s a simple reason for this, and it unsurprisingly has zero to do with making things easier for the consumer: By signing short-term licensing deals with a bevy of different streamers, the rights holders can make a lot more money. That’s why it’s such a rare delight to have all 25 Bond films* streamable in the same place—something that has only briefly happened once before, as far as I can determine.

Where to stream all the James Bond films right now

Unsurprisingly, given Amazon owns MGM, the current streaming home for every film in the franchise is Amazon Prime Video. This is generally good new for Bond fans, since there’s a good chance they’re already a Prime member (like 184 million other folks in the U.S.). Unfortunately there are a few caveats worth noting.

*One of the best Bonds is only technically available

First, while all 25 Bond films are technically available on Prime Video, if you want to watch 2006’s Casino Royale (hey, that’s my favorite one!), as of this writing you can only do so via Prime Video if you sign up for the Paramount+ add-on channel. That costs $7.99 extra per month on top of your Prime membership, but you can watch directly via Prime Video without logging into a separate Paramount+ app, so I guess that was close enough for the people running the official James Bond account on X.

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Two Bond films aren’t included at all

Second, “all 25 007 movies” doesn’t include two other Bond films that aren’t typically counted as part of the franchise proper: 1967’s Peter Sellers-starring comedic take on Casino Royale, and 1983’s Never Say Never Again, in which Sean Connery returned to the title role even as Roger Moore was still the “official” 007 for complex legal reasons you’re probably familiar with if you’re a big enough Bond fan to know the movie exists at all. If you want to watch either of these minor entries in the canon, you’ll need to go the digital rental route.

How long will the Bond films be streaming on Prime Video?

Third—and here’s the real sticky wicket when you’re trying to stream anything these days—is the fact that there’s no way of knowing how long all 25 movies will remain available via Prime Video. Amazon isn’t exactly forthright about what titles are leaving the service and when, so my advice is to spend the rest of October binging Bond, if you’re so inclined (and can find the time amid all the spooky season fare). That’s your mission, if you choose to accept it. Wait, wrong spy franchise (but luckily all seven Mission: Impossible movies are also in one spot right now: Paramount+).