Quick tips and clues to beat today’s puzzles
Two daily twists today: the regular five-letter Spanish Wordle and the accent-aware variant. You get six tries to guess the word, so every guess counts.
If you’re new or stuck, pick a starter word with no repeated letters and aim for at least two vowels and three consonants — that helps reveal structure fast. In Spanish, letters like S, R, M, N and L tend to show up a lot, so they’re safe bets to test early.
Use the color feedback smartly: keep any green letters in place, shuffle the yellow ones to new spots, and abandon grays. Short, targeted moves beat random guessing.
Here are the hints rephrased so they don’t give everything away at once. For the standard puzzle: the answer is a masculine singular noun, five letters long, with three consonants and two vowels, no repeated characters, starts and ends with a consonant, the center letter is N, and the vowel set excludes A, I and U. Note: one of the original clues mentioned an accent on the second letter, but that doesn’t match the actual answer — so consider that a mistake in the clue list.
For the accent-enabled puzzle: the word is an adjective, seven characters total (four consonants and three vowels), it repeats one letter (the vowel I appears more than once), it begins with D, ends with a consonant, the fourth character carries the accent, and it describes something that’s tricky or full of obstacles.
Spoilers — solutions for July 31 (don’t read if you want to keep guessing)
Okay, spoiler time. If you want to solve it yourself, stop now.
Regular Spanish Wordle (July 31): TONER
Accent-aware Wordle (July 31): DIFÍCIL
Why this matters: Wordle’s bite-sized challenge is perfect for quick morning flexes or trash-talking friends in the comments. The accent version cranks up the difficulty for Spanish players since accents and repeated vowels change your strategy — you’ll be thinking about vowels in a whole new way.
Quick history nugget: the original concept came from Josh Wardle, it blew up online and later joined The New York Times family. The craze spawned lots of offshoots — some cooperative, some downright mean — but all of them prove players love a neat little daily brainteaser.
