Wordle today: Hint and answer #868 for Saturday, November 4

pcgamer.com:

Make every game of Wordle a guaranteed winner with our help. Rush straight for another glorious victory with today's answer for that instant score-boosting buzz, mull over the November 4 (868) clue if you'd just like a helping hand, or feel free to stay a while and check out our guide. 

Today's Wordle soon had me stumped. I had three greens all neatly lined up in a row, but I just couldn't see what I needed to add to finish the game off for far too long. Luckily for me, I had enough free rows left to make a few (slightly panicked) guesses, and I eventually stumbled on the letters I needed. Phew!

There are a few meanings for today's word, but they all tend to involve extremes of something. This word is also the back half of an excellent Sonic The Hedgehog game's title. 

Yes, a vowel is used twice in today's Wordle. 

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 not to treat the game like a casual newspaper crossword and come back to it later if you're coming up blank. 

Save that win streak. The answer to the November 4 (868) Wordle is MANIA.

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