Cut straight through today's puzzle with a quick click-through to the answer to today's Wordle answer if you want to—some days the simplest solution is the best one.
Or use our tips to polish your own ideas until they shine, and make use of the January 16 (1307) hint if you'd like someone to point you in the right direction.
However you enjoy Wordle, we can help you win. An absolute disaster of an opener was more helpful than I initially gave it credit for.
Fine. If Wordle was going to be like that, then I may as well just type in whatever the heck I like and… almost instantly stumble upon today's answer.
Neat. Not exactly smart. But definitely neat. Today's answer is the name of a hard grey stone, used in ancient times to make crude tools and weapons, and when struck will produce a spark capable of starting a fire.