Today's Wordle Answer & Hints for October 21, 2023 (Puzzle #854)

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October 21st’s answer shouldn’t be too challenging to complete if you use your regular starting words. Today’s answer might be the easiest to solve this week, but if you start off on the wrong foot, you might need to rely on hints to keep your streak going. It is possible to solve today’s answer in less than six attempts without using clues, but you might want to switch to a different mode if you are struggling.

Since ’s hard mode requires you to reuse confirmed letters in the same spot, you won’t be able to waste your attempts with random guesses. Sometimes, players get carried away even when there is an easier answer and sacrifice their streak. Therefore, if you are stuck on your last few attempts and still don’t have the answer in sight, the below hints might help.

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Using hints to solve answers works similarly to using clues for other vocabulary puzzle games such as Crosswords. Hence, the hints provided below do not spoil the answer and only give a fair idea so you can still solve the puzzle independently. Here are four hints that will help solve October 21st’s answer:

Hint 1

There are no repeating letters.

Hint 2

The answer is used as a verb and a noun.

Hint 3

The vowel is in the 3rd position.

Hint 4

Smile in an irritatingly smug.

The October 21st answer isSMIRK.

Solving today’s answer shouldn’t take long if you use starting words that reveal the correct position of a few letters. If you use words such as SCORE, SMORE, and SMART, you should be able to discover the correct position of at least three letters. Since there aren’t many words that start with “SM,” we were able to solve today’s answer with a lucky guess on our fourth attempt.