Today's Wordle answer for Sunday, February 18

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Save your Wordle win streak with our help. Learn how to make the most of every row with our general tips, give your daily game some guidance with a clue written especially for the February 18 (974) challenge, or click your way through to today's answer. Whatever you need, we've got it.

Today's Wordle took a while to solve, thanks to one particular green popping up in an unexpected place. Normally I'm all for having something concrete to base my next guess on turn up early, but this one seemed to cause more problems than it fixed—for a while, anyway.

Thinking of landscapes will help today, as the answer can refer to any narrow strip of land across the top of a hill or mountain. Some of them are popular hiking routes—so long as you've got a head for heights. 

No letters are used twice in today's puzzle. 

Anyone can pick up and play Wordle, but if you want to do it well and make all of your guesses count, these quick tips will help get you started on your Wordle winning streak: 

Thankfully, there's no time limit beyond ensuring it's done by midnight. So there's no reason not to treat the game like a casual newspaper crossword and come back to it later if you're coming up blank. Sometimes stepping away for a while means you can come back with a fresh perspective. 

Let's keep your win streak safe. The answer to the February 18 (974) Wordle is RIDGE.

Past Wordle answers can give you some excellent ideas for fun starting words that keep your daily puzzle-solving fresh. They are also a good way to eliminate guesses for today's Wordle, as the answer is unlikely to be repeated. 

Here are some recent Wordle solutions:

Wordle gives you six rows of five boxes each day, and you'll need to work out which secret five-letter word is hiding inside them to keep up your winning streak.

You should start with a strong word like ARISE, or any other word that contains a good mix of common consonants and multiple vowels. You'll also want to avoid starting words with repeating letters, as