Wordle hit the world in 2021 and within weeks it became a phenomenon with hundreds of thousands of users.
The daily word puzzle was then acquired by The New York Times early 2022 and remains its most popular game since.
Much of Wordle’s appeal lies in its simplicity. If you’ve never played the game before, players are given six chances to guess the daily five-letter word, and feedback is provided to help you guess it via a color-coded system.
A green tile means the letter is correct, while a yellow tile tells the player that the letter appears in the word but is just in the wrong place. A gray tile indicates that the letter is not in the word at all.
People have their own style and strategy when it comes to playing the game, but when the Times’Josh Katz and Aatish Bhatia analyzed 515 million Wordle games and found that one of the most popular first word choices was “Goodbye,” but it wasn’t really helpful in solving the game.
“The strategy seems logical: Figure out the vowels and the other letters will fall into place,” Katz and Bhatia wrote in the Times in December 2023. “Our new analysis, however, shows that starting with ADIEU or AUDIO actually puts human players at a disadvantage.”
They continued: “On average, players who started with ADIEU needed about a third more turns to solve their Wordles than players who started with SLATE, which amounts to 132 additional turns over the course of a year.”
If you need help finding the Saturday Wordle answer, check out our collection of clues below. But scroll down the article with caution because the answer is revealed at the end of this article.
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Wordle #1,176, Clues for Saturday, September 7
Newsweek has gathered five clues to help you solve today’s Wordle puzzle.
Clue #1: Today’s Wordle is a noun.
Clue #2: There are no repeated letters.
Clue #3: The word contains two vowels.
Clue #4: Today’s answer has two syllables.
Clue #5: A synonym for the word is “possessor.”
Wordle #1,176, reply from Saturday, September 7
The answer to today’s Wordle is “owner.”
Congratulations if you made it, but don’t worry if you didn’t. Wordle is updated every day at midnight in your local time zone, so you’ll have another chance to play soon. Newsweek I will be back with another set of tips and tricks for each new game.
Players looking to keep busy while waiting for the next Wordle can try other word-based puzzles such as Typochondria.
