Today's Wordle 482 answer and hint: Friday, October 14

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General guides designed to improve your daily Wordle game, handcrafted tips to point you in the right direction, and even the answer to the October 14 (482) puzzle are all just an easy click or scroll away. Whatever you need to help you with today's Wordle, it's here.

Wordle decided today's puzzling was going to be a dramatic rollercoaster ride, each guess giving me just enough clues to make me believe I'd definitely got the answer this time, only for the results to lead me down a different path. I eventually got it right—on the very last go.

Any interior surface designed to be walked on. Crudely put, this is the opposite of the ceiling. One vowel is used twice today. 

If there's one thing better than playing Wordle, it's playing Wordle well, which is why I'm going to share a few quick tips to help set you on the path to success:

There's no time pressure beyond making sure it's done by midnight. So there's no reason to not treat the game like a casual newspaper crossword and come back to it later if you're coming up blank.

Let me help you win. The answer to the October 14 (482) Wordle isFLOOR.

The more past Wordle answers you can cram into your memory banks, the better your chances of guessing today's Wordle answer without accidentally picking a solution that's already been used. Past Wordle answers can also give you some excellent ideas for fun starting words that keep your daily puzzle solving fresh.

Here are some recent Wordle solutions:

Every day Wordle presents you with six rows of five boxes, and it's up to you to work out which secret five-letter word is hiding inside them.

You'll want to start with a strong word(opens in new tab) like ALERT—something containing multiple vowels, common consonants, and no repeat