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Wordle today: Hint and answer #948 for Tuesday, January 23

Whether you have a burning desire to win today’s Wordle in a single guess or you’d just like to find new ways to approach the daily word game, everything you need is right here. Come take a look at our general tips, read through a helpful clue for the January 23 (948) puzzle, or go take a cheeky peek at today’s Wordle answer.

In the moment, my opening guess felt like nothing short of a disaster—all greys, really? But it also immediately shut down a wide range of possibilities, and that gave my next attempt the focus it needed to get this game back on track (after I’d stopped worrying, anyway). Thanks to that, my third row turned into a quick Wordle win—phew!

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Tuesday, January 23

If something wasn’t moving, it’d be…? This word can apply to people, pictures—anything really. In bottled water’s case, this would be the type you’d go for if you don’t like the sparkling sort.

Is there a double letter in Wordle today?

Yes, a letter is used twice in today’s puzzle.

Wordle help: 3 tips for beating Wordle every day

Looking to extend your Wordle winning streak? Perhaps you’ve just started playing the popular daily puzzle game and are looking for some pointers. Whatever the reason you’re here, these quick tips can help push you in the right direction:

Start with a word that has a mix of common vowels and consonants.
The answer might repeat the same letter.
Try not to use guesses that include letters you’ve already eliminated.

There’s no racing against the clock with Wordle so you don’t need to rush for the answer. Treating the game like a casual newspaper crossword can be a good tactic; that way, you can come back to it later if you’re coming up blank. Stepping away for a while might mean the difference between a win and a line of grey squares.

Today’s Wordle answer

Wordle answers

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What is today’s Wordle answer?

The right word, ready to go. The answer to the January 23 (948) Wordle is STILL.

Previous Wordle answers

The last 10 Wordle answers

Wordle solutions that have already been used can help eliminate answers for today’s Wordle or give you inspiration for guesses to help uncover more of those greens. They can also give you some inspired ideas for starting words that keep your daily puzzle-solving fresh.

Here are some recent Wordle answers:

January 22: TWEAK
January 21: NORTH
January 20: LARGE
January 19: THING
January 18: STOLE
January 17: COURT
January 16: BLOND
January 15: LUNCH
January 14: DOING
January 13: HEARD

Learn more about Wordle

Today's Wordle being played on a phone

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Wordle gives you six rows of five boxes each day, and it’s up to you to work out which five-letter word is hiding among them to win the popular daily puzzle.

It’s usually a good plan to start with a strong word like ALERT—or any other word with a good mix of common consonants and multiple vowels—and you should be off to a flying start, with a little luck anyway. You should also avoid starting words with repeating letters, so you don’t waste the chance to confirm or eliminate an extra letter. Once you hit Enter, you’ll see which letters you’ve got right or wrong. If a box turns ⬛️, it means that letter isn’t in the secret word at all. 🟨 means the letter is in the word, but not in that position. 🟩 means you’ve got the right letter in the right spot.

Your second guess should compliment the first, using another “good” word to cover any common letters you might have missed on the first row—just don’t forget to leave out any letter you now know for a fact isn’t present in today’s answer. After that, it’s just a case of using what you’ve learned to narrow your guesses down to the correct word. You have six tries in total and can only use real words and don’t forget letters can repeat too (eg: BOOKS).

If you need any further advice feel free to check out our Wordle tips, and if you’d like to find out which words have already been used, you can scroll to the relevant section above.

Originally, Wordle was dreamed up by software engineer Josh Wardle, as a surprise for his partner who loves word games. From there it spread to his family, and finally got released to the public. The word puzzle game has since inspired tons of games like Wordle, refocusing the daily gimmick around music or math or geography. It wasn’t long before Wordle became so popular it was sold to the New York Times for seven figures. Surely it’s only a matter of time before we all solely communicate in tricolor boxes.

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How the Azerothian Archives event works in World of Warcraft

The Azerothian Archives is a surprisingly deep event in World of Warcraft which has arrived with the 10.2.5 patch. It brings opportunities to earn new transmogs, mounts and pets, along with reputation to earn with old and new factions.

The Archives creates a new flavor of archaeology with an excavation mini-game, tracking and spotting artifacts, watching short scenes of local history, and a Big Dig event that feels like a combination of the Tuskarr Community Feast, a Suffusion Camp, and a Superbloom.

Other than a minor amount of some other reputations—a couple hundred Loamm Niffen rep, from an earlier quest this week, for example—nothing you’ll do in the Archives will make your character any stronger, so there’s no need to take part if you aren’t interested in collections or cosmetics. If you’d like a selection of fun armor appearances, pets and mounts, however, here’s how to do the digs.

Unlock the Azerothian Archives world quests

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The To the Archives! quest in Valdrakken comes from several very obviously placed flyers. It’ll send you to a floating chunk of land near Alge’thar Academy—the outdoor area, not the dungeon—in the Thaldraszus zone.

There, a couple of quests will introduce you to two mechanics used in the Archives: excavation and technoscrying. Complete them to learn how to use the doodads and perform the quests that’ll follow—don’t forget to pick up the weekly Big Dig quest, which will give you plenty of the fragments used as currency for armor appearances, and a good chunk of the Azerothian Archives event reputation.

Once you’ve completed these tutorials, you’ll get breadcrumb quests that send you to the zones where follow-up Archives activities are available. You’ll unlock Archives world quests in those areas as you complete them, first outdoors, then in Zaralek Cavern and Forbidden Reach. You only need to do this series once as the world quests unlock account-wide.

Completing the intro will also award you an Indiana Jones-style Archivist’s Buckled Cap.

How the Azerothian Archives event works

World of Warcraft Azerothian Archives - a technoscryer has found some treasure

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In excavation quests, you’ll drop a totem near an upwelling of energy, which will spawn an elemental to help you. The elemental will channel on the relic, and little elementals—or rocks or any number of other elemental objects—in the immediate vicinity will counter that channel.

Your job is to use the totem and the surrounding items to keep the relic “in balance” on a slider scale. While the marker is in the center area, you can excavate the relic, advancing a progress bar until it is freed.

In technoscrying quests, you’ll use goggles and a map graphic to look for artifacts. You’ll see pings that travel across the landscape—I found these to be pretty buggy in practice, frequently disappearing into terrain instead of moving over it. But the map graphic will give you a hotter/colder indication of when you’re getting close to a relic, and when you’re nearby, the field of view of the goggles will help light up the object, which you can then loot.

And finally, in research quests, you’ll use a companion to look for ghostly—and often adorable—clues they will then absorb.

Join the Big Dig

World of Warcraft Azerothian Archives - a chaotic boss fight with many players and spell effects

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The Big Dig is an hourly event but mercifully starts 30 minutes after the hour, so it doesn’t conflict with the Superbloom and other hourly happenings. It has a 10-minute timer, so you’ll be in and out without much fuss.

The event at the Traitor’s Rest in Azure Span gives you tasks to complete that award pages—think of these as the Bloom in Superbloom events in the Emerald Dream, which fill up a progress bar and periodically reward you with a cache of goodies.

Those caches are odd; in one of my Digs, I was given a blue cache, then a green one, then an epic one, then another green one. In all cases, they generally contained fragments and grey vendor items, though they also have a chance of awarding items you can break down into still more fragments, which you’ll use to buy transmogs, etc.

There’s an NPC who will award tasks, but currently the wait to get a new task feels interminable, and without any visual indicator there’s no way to tell whether you’re close enough to be awarded one.

Elsewhere in the area, you can do additional tasks for pages, so it might be worth skipping the NPC tasks for now. Once the event comes to an end, a boss will spawn, giving you more fragments and rep and a chance at cosmetics and other rewards. You can also find cosmetics in tomes you discover during the event.

Azerothian Archives rewards

World of Warcraft Azerothian Archives - a human female is displaying one of the transmog rewards

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Each week you can earn 5,000 fragments from the Big Dig quest. You can spend them on all the rewards available from the Archives vendor:

Full Historian transmog set (59,000 fragments)
Explorer’s Stonehide Packbeast mount (20,000 fragments)
Cosmetic glasses appearances (12,000 fragments each)
Explorer-themed weapons and offhands (10,000 fragments each)
Explorer-themed backpack (15,000 fragments)

You can also buy an item to trade 1,000 fragments to your alts with no transfer penalty.

A second mount, the Clayscale Hornstrider, has the chance to drop from the final boss in the Big Dig. Two pets, including a sort of arcane otter and an arcane fox, come from achievements you can complete at the Big Dig: Finally at Rest and Just One More Thing.

Additionally, another full transmog set—the Excavator set—can be obtained a piece at a time from the Big Dig boss or from tomes during the event. It’s identical to the Historian set but with slightly different coloring, and both of these sets are recolors of the Renowned Explorer’s Attire from the Recruit-a-Friend bonuses.

The Archives quests are still a bit buggy, and it feels like the pace of acquiring fragments could be a bit faster. But overall, this is a surprising amount of depth for a brand-new outdoor event. Enjoy beefing up your collections!

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Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunner reverse-pickpockets a boss to teleport to the dev room, defeats another boss with ‘Shadowbear’

You may be familiar with Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrun tricks like shadowboxing, which is where you kill Shadowheart and stuff her in a box as a way of skipping through a substantial part of the game. Which is honestly a bit of a rough way to treat God’s favorite princess and the most interesting girl in the world. Shadowheart gets some comeuppance in a technique used by Mae, the speedrunner who holds the current world records for any%, all acts%, and sex%. Let me introduce you to the Shadowbear.

This one works thanks to the massive amounts of bludgeoning damage you cause by transforming into something big, then jumping on someone in Baldur’s Gate 3. The orbital owlbear strike is the most brutal example of this exploit, but Mae uses a slightly different one to wrap up act two’s boss fight 12 minutes into her recent run for Awesome Games Done Quick 2024. By casting enlarge on Shadowheart before transforming her into a bear, then making her invisible, Mae creates a stealth bomb that weighs 5,005 kilograms and kills first Ketheric Thorm and then his final form, the avatar of Myrkul, simply by landing on their heads.

In the same run Mae demonstrates a technique for visiting developer rooms, and then explains it in more detail after wrapping up all three acts in a tidy 33.21.8. Dev rooms are hidden spaces where game designers keep test objects as well as characters that need to be swapped in and out of a game in play. One such character in Baldur’s Gate 3 is Orin the Red, the boss who shapeshifts into different forms to freak you out in act three. When she shapeshifts the ordinary NPC she’s pretending to be gets teleported to the dev room, and that provides speedrunners and glitch enjoyers with an opportunity to follow.

It works like this. First, Mae finds one of the NPCs who transforms into Orin the Red. Then, without triggering the dialogue where this would normally happen, she reverse-pickpockets the protagonist’s corpse into the NPC’s inventory. (Shadowheart isn’t the only character who gets repeatedly killed and resurrected by speedrunners, and Mae’s player-character, Tom from MySpace, suffers as well.) It’s surprisingly easy to sneak a dead body into someone’s pants in Baldur’s Gate 3, requiring only a Difficulty Class 0 sleight-of-hand check. When Mae slaps the disguised Orin with a mage hand it triggers her transformation, letting the dead protagonist hitch a ride. At which point the conjuration wizard ability Benign Transposition: Teleport, which lets you teleport wherever an ally is, allows Mae to join Tom from MySpace in the dev room.

There are at least two dev rooms in Baldur’s Gate 3, each containing a variety of NPCs and objects. There’s a sheep for some reason, as well as several spare Orins, Dribbles the Clown, gods like Bane and Shar, and the half-orc named Honk who is one of the game’s most elusive NPCs.

Back to the run, Mae wraps up act three with the illithid power Fierce Perilous Stakes, which adds a bonus to any kind of damage you cause. Since every missile cast with the spell magic missile deals damage separately, Fierce Perilous Stakes applies to each of them individually, meaning the final boss can be defeated with a single level 3 casting of every wizard’s fallback spell.

As someone who hasn’t wrapped their second playthrough of Baldur’s Gate 3 at 194 hours and counting, seeing this unhurried speedrun finish in just over half an hour is inspiring. Time to dive back in I think, though I’ll be treating Shadowheart a little more nicely in my run.

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Five new Steam games you probably missed (January 22, 2024)

On an average day about a dozen new games are released on Steam. And while we think that’s a good thing, it can be understandably hard to keep up with. Potentially exciting gems are sure to be lost in the deluge of new things to play unless you sort through every single game that is released on Steam. So that’s exactly what we’ve done. If nothing catches your fancy this week, we’ve gathered the best PC games you can play right now and a running list of the 2024 games that are launching this year.

First Cut: Samurai Duel

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Release:‌ January 18
Developer:‌ Night Eyes Interactive

Here’s a gorgeous, gory, hardcore sword fighter with an instagib twist. In First Cut a successful hit on your opponent will instantly kill them, but landing that hit is the whole challenge. Swords can be aimed, attacks can be blocked, and parrying can change the course of a fight. It’s a simple premise with a lot of technique-oriented complexity, and will probably appeal to people who want a more hardcore take on Nidhogg. Local multiplayer is arguably the star attraction here, but there are also two game modes for solo players, as well as a range of bizarre bonus modes (laser swords, anyone?).

No Case Should Remain Unsolved

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Release:‌ January 18
Developer:‌ Somi

No Case Should Remain Unsolved is a narrative-driven detective game with the atmosphere of a hard boiled crime novel. Retired Senior Inspector Jeon Gyeong is encouraged by a young cop to revisit a cold case concerning the disappearance of a little girl. Gyeong must rifle through her unreliable memories to connect various hidden truths, which takes the form of piecing together scattered, remembered testimonies. With a runtime of no more than three hours, No Case Should Remain Unsolved is all about the slow unfurling of disturbing truth, and it currently has an “overwhelmingly positive” ranking on Steam.

Aground Zero

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Release:‌ January 19
Developers:‌ Fancy Fish Games

This Early Access game is a first-person take on Aground, a fairly well-received crafting and mining RPG. Basically, a mysterious apocalypse has occurred and humanity is doomed to an eternal life underground. It’s your job to (perhaps ill-advisedly) dig your way out of this subterranean prison to see whatever is going on up on the surface nowadays. To achieve this you’ll need to bolster your base and construct a variety of machines to automate mining and refine resources. There are some pretty hectic looking creatures to be encountered down in the ground as well. This Early Access period is expected to last around a year; the core of the game is there, but the surface will be expanded over the coming months, as well as other additions and improvements.

Three Kingdoms Zhao Yun

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Release:‌ January 18
Developer:‌ Zuijiangyue Game

At first glance three Kingdoms Zhao Yun looks like an isometric musou game (ie, Dynasty Warriors and all of its many offshoots) with some ARPG trimmings. It’s definitely more geared towards the former, with a linear 12 chapter campaign, four “weapon systems” with some fairly shallow upgrade paths, and a focus on the Three Kingdoms era of China. This game is refreshingly straightfoward and cathartic hack ‘n’ slasher with impressive production values and a rich atmosphere, though some Steam reviewers note that the localisation can sometimes be a bit confusing. I can cope with that, because you can fight from the back of a horse.

Test Test Test

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Release:‌ January 18
Developer:‌ Mojiken

No, this is not a test, it’s actually what the game’s called. It’s a point ‘n’ click adventure starring a worn out office worker who must escape the horrible time loop he’s trapped in (presumably one more mysterious and dangerous than just “the work week”). The loop lasts 15 in-game minutes during which time you’ll explore the steely premises of your corporation, solving puzzles and explaining yourself to capricious higher-ups. Looks like a lot of fun: the pixel art is amazing.

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Wordle today: Hint and answer #946 for Sunday, January 21

All the help you need to win today’s Wordle your way is right here. Make the most of every guess with our handy tips, find direction with a clue written especially for the January 21 (946) game, or turn your Wordle around in an instant with today’s answer. Whatever you need, we’ve got it covered.

Somehow I solved this Sunday’s Wordle so fast, my fingers had found the answer before my brain had realised I’d even started playing. I could do with another go at today’s game, just so I could actually appreciate my win properly instead of blearily staring at a row of greens and wondering how on earth I got there.

Wordle today: A hint

Wordle hint - a grid with white letters against yellow, green, and gray backgrounds — (Image credit: Josh Wardle)

Wordle today: A hint for Sunday, January 21

The answer today is the hemisphere with all the polar bears and Santa’s workshop, and the cardinal point at the top of a compass.

Is there a double letter in Wordle today?

No, there is no double letter in today’s puzzle.

Wordle help: 3 tips for beating Wordle every day

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:

Choose an opener with a balanced mix of unique vowels and consonants.
The answer may contain the same letter, multiple times.
Try not to use guesses that contain letters you’ve already eliminated.

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.

Wordle today: The answer

Wordle answer - a phone with wordle on it looks like it's being held by a toy monkey

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What is today’s Wordle answer?

Finish the weekend with a win. The answer to the January 21 (946) Wordle is NORTH.

Previous Wordle answers

The last 10 Wordle answers

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:

January 20: LARGE
January 19: THING
January 18: STOLE
January 17: COURT
January 16: BLOND
January 15: LUNCH
January 14: DOING
January 13: HEARD
January 12: ROUTE
January 11: BRIEF

Learn more about Wordle

Today's Wordle being played on a phone

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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 you’re wasting the chance to potentially eliminate or confirm an extra letter. Once you hit Enter, you’ll see which ones you’ve got right or wrong. If a box turns ⬛️, it means that letter isn’t in the secret word at all. 🟨 means the letter is in the word, but not in that position. 🟩 means you’ve got the right letter in the right spot.

You’ll want your next guess to compliment the first, using another “good” word to cover any common letters you might have missed last time while also trying to avoid any letter you now know for a fact isn’t present in today’s answer. After that, it’s simply a case of using what you’ve learned to narrow your guesses down to the correct word. You have six tries in total and can only use real words and don’t forget letters can repeat too (eg: BOOKS).

If you need any further advice feel free to check out our Wordle tips, and if you’d like to find out which words have already been used you can scroll to the relevant section above.

Originally, Wordle was dreamed up by software engineer Josh Wardle, as a surprise for his partner who loves word games. From there it spread to his family, and finally got released to the public. The word puzzle game has since inspired tons of games like Wordle, refocusing the daily gimmick around music or math or geography. It wasn’t long before Wordle became so popular it was sold to the New York Times for seven figures. Surely it’s only a matter of time before we all solely communicate in tricolor boxes.

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Ars Magica, the pioneering ‘oops all wizards’ tabletop RPG, is getting a Definitive Edition

First published in 1987, Ars Magica is a tabletop RPG set in a version of medieval Europe where magic is real and all the player-characters are wizards. Well, technically. One of the novel ideas of Ars Magica was “troupe-style play” in which every player created multiple characters, playing different ones as the story dictated. You might be a powerful wizard of the Order of Hermes one week, then one of their menial sidekicks called “grogs” the next.

Ars Magica also pioneered rules for shared worldbuilding, with players collaborating to create a covenant—a stronghold where the wizards and their associated outcasts and misfits banded together. It also suggested players take turns being the Game Master or Story Guide, each telling different stories in Mythic Europe before handing on the reins.

Another area where Ars Magica innovated was its magic system, as you’d expect for a game so heavily focused on wizards. As well as pre-made formulaic spells, magicians can invent spontaneous ones on the fly by combining a technique and a form—a verb and a noun, each with a Latin name. To make fire, for instance, you combine the technique of creation Creo and the form of fire Ignem, which gives you something snappy to say when a fireball goes off.

The fifth edition of Ars Magica was released in 2004, and its last supplement came out in 2016. Publisher Atlas Games has announced it’s been working on a Definitive Edition for the last few years, a revised version of fifth edition it’s planning to crowdfund in fall, 2024. “We’ll release a deluxe, full color, hardcover print edition of the Definitive core rulebook,” Atlas said, “with new art and layout and heirloom production quality.”

It’ll be “much bigger” than the 5th edition book, with revisions that “reflect decades of play and incorporate a host of new material published since the original rulebook’s release.” It’ll also be based on an open license.

“We recently completed our long-term project of resurrecting original printer files for the entire Ars Magica 5th Edition line of supplements,” Atlas said, “converting them to softcover print-on-demand. This means that the entire line of supplements, fully compatible with ArM5D, can remain in print indefinitely, both as ebooks and as printed books made to order and delivered to buyers anywhere in the world. We intend for Ars Magica to be a game enjoyed and creatively expanded for generations to come.”

Ars Magica will be familiar to fans of the World of Darkness games. Its rules became the basis for the WoD’s storyteller system, and parts of its background inspired similar concepts in games like Vampire: The Masquerade (in Ars Magica, the Tremere haven’t yet turned undead and are simply dark wizards) and Mage: The Ascension (which is essentially Ars Magica in the modern day).

There was an attempt to crowdfund a videogame based on Ars Magica in 2012 by Black Chicken Studios, but unfortunately it fell short of its goal.

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Wordle today: Hint and answer #945 for Saturday, January 20

Sit back, relax, and enjoy your first Wordle win of the weekend. However you want to solve Saturday’s game, from a cheeky peek at today’s answer to mulling over a helpful clue for the January 20 (945) game with your morning coffee, you’ll find everything you need below.

Today’s puzzle was my favourite sort of weekend Wordle—it put up enough of a fight to be interesting, but not so much that I started to fear for my win streak after the first few rows. I may not have found the Wordle answer in record time, but I definitely had fun prising this word out of the haze of letters.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, January 20

You could describe big things in this way. Something vast, broad, or of an impressive size compared to its peers. The opposite of small.

Is there a double letter in Wordle today?

No, there is no double letter in today’s puzzle.

Wordle help: 3 tips for beating Wordle every day

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:

A good opener contains a balanced mix of unique vowels and consonants.
A tactical second guess helps to narrow down the pool of letters quickly.
The solution may contain repeat letters.

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.

Today’s Wordle answer

Wordle answers

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What is today’s Wordle answer?

You might need this. The answer to the January 20 (945) Wordle is LARGE.

Previous answers

The last 10 Wordle answers

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:

January 19: THING
January 18: STOLE
January 17: COURT
January 16: BLOND
January 15: LUNCH
January 14: DOING
January 13: HEARD
January 12: ROUTE
January 11: BRIEF
January 10: THREW

Learn more about Wordle

Today's Wordle being played on a phone

(Image credit: Nurphoto via Getty)

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 like ALERT—something containing multiple vowels, common consonants, and no repeat letters. Hit Enter and the boxes will show you which letters you’ve got right or wrong. If a box turns ⬛️, it means that letter isn’t in the secret word at all. 🟨 means the letter is in the word, but not in that position. 🟩 means you’ve got the right letter in the right spot.

You’ll want your second go to compliment the first, using another “good” word to cover any common letters you missed last time while also trying to avoid any letter you now know for a fact isn’t present in today’s answer.

After that it’s just a case of using what you’ve learned to narrow your guesses down to the right word. You have six tries in total and can only use real words (so no filling the boxes with EEEEE to see if there’s an E). Don’t forget letters can repeat too (ex: BOOKS).

If you need any further advice feel free to check out our Wordle tips, and if you’d like to find out which words have already been used you can scroll to the relevant section above.

Originally, Wordle was dreamed up by software engineer Josh Wardle, as a surprise for his partner who loves word games. From there it spread to his family, and finally got released to the public. The word puzzle game has since inspired tons of games like Wordle, refocusing the daily gimmick around music or math or geography. It wasn’t long before Wordle became so popular it was sold to the New York Times for seven figures. Surely it’s only a matter of time before we all solely communicate in tricolor boxes.

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Halo Infinite is done with seasons, will get smaller ‘content updates’ from now on

Halo Infinite’s next big update is coming January 30 with a new arena map, a new operation, a free Mark IV Spartan core, and the long-awaited ability to equip shoulder pieces on any armor. 343 showed off the update, which also includes new Covenant items in Forge, in a livestream today. It looks like a nice little followup to the midseason Firefight update in December, though the way 343 talked about the update raised a big question for viewers: where’s Season 6?

At the end of the stream, 343 broke the news: there will be no Season 6. Halo Infinite is moving away from seasons.

Instead, 343 will continue to create “Operation” events with shorter 20-tier battle passes that run for four-to-six week periods. While 343 will continue to add to Infinite throughout 2024, the news will be bittersweet for fans who feel Infinite is finally mounting its comeback. It’s hard not to read this as the beginning of the end for Infinite support, especially considering community director Brian Jarrard took the opportunity to mention 343’s future projects.

“We have a dedicated team working on supporting Halo Infinite and continuing to deliver coming forward, but also, we have additional teams now that are accelerating towards the future working on brand new projects,” said Jarrard.

343’s scaled back plans could be interpreted as Microsoft throwing in the towel on a live service shooter that never took off the way it hoped. More broadly, I think it signals a developing trend away from hard-defined schedules of the live service model.

Embark Studios recently announced that it won’t be releasing a public roadmap or make any promises about The Finals updates. Instead, updates will come when they’re ready and Embark hopes players enjoy the surprise. How very 2007. Maybe 343, knowing Halo is probably never going to be Fortnite or Apex Legends big, is reading the room in a similar way. More maps, playlists, and customization updates are coming, but the only thing that’s guaranteed is a small Operation pass every six weeks or so.

Halo Infinite’s move away from the seasonal model could be the start of a natural dissipation of the live service model that will eventually stretch to many more games. It’s tough for a big-budget game to attract a large enough audience to justify adding to it for years, and even the most successful examples like Destiny 2 have struggled to keep it up in perpetuity. Fortnite becoming a platform that encompasses racing and Lego building and more is Epic’s way of countering that inertia.

Considering how hard Halo Infinite struggled with its first few seasons, it makes sense for 343 to slowly return to the old ways: releasing a new game every few years that people hopefully like more than the last one. There’s a part of me that’s annoyed Infinite might never reach its full potential, but another part of me is excited by what a fresh game that learns from Infinite could look like in a few years, and that 2024 could see more developers turn away from a Sisyphean business model that grinds too many games to dust.

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Did you catch the Quake 6 tease in the Indiana Jones reveal?

It’s only on screen for a couple seconds, and only partially, but there’s no mistaking it: The Quake logo is drawn on a whiteboard that appears in the Indiana Jones and the Great Circle reveal video from this week’s Xbox Developer Direct. Above it is a cut-off word: “-AKE 6.”

I’m guessing that MachineGames didn’t write “CAKE 6” on a whiteboard.

MachineGames and id Software parent Bethesda hasn’t acknowledged the Easter egg—I asked about it and got the expected ‘no comment’—but we can be sure we were meant to see it. I was too distracted by Indy to catch it the first time, but it has been pointed out on ResetEra, Reddit, and elsewhere, and once you know it’s there it’s blindingly obvious. You can see the whiteboard for yourself in the Developer Direct video a little after 44:46, but it’s just what you see in the image above.

The case for Quake 6 being real is helped by an existing rumor: A couple years ago, XboxEra co-founder Shpeshal Nick said that a source told him that id Software and MachineGames were collaborating on a Quake reboot that would include multiplayer as well as a singleplayer campaign with “a female protagonist.”

It was thin as rumors go—just an out-of-the-blue message—but with MachineGames now apparently teasing its involvement in a Quake game, it’s notable that the idea was already out there. It wouldn’t be the first time MachineGames took a leading role on a series from id Software’s history. Wolfenstein 3D was one of id Software’s first games, but that series has been looked after by MachineGames since 2014’s Wolfenstein: The New Order.

If there really is a Quake 6 coming, we’d have to accept Quake: Champions as “Quake 5,” but that’s fine. There are no rules about videogame series naming conventions.

Quake: Champions is a free-to-play multiplayer game from id Software that spent several years in early access before fully releasing in 2022. Like Epic’s attempt to revive Unreal Tournament, it has not managed to start a second golden age for multiplayer arena shooters, and I’ve wondered if the Quake series would end with it.

Id has found success with its singleplayer Doom reboots, though, and the MachineGames Wolfenstein games were good, if not tremendous commercial successes. Taking Quake back to the old-fashioned multiplayer FPS with a singleplayer campaign format—presumably with id Software handling the multiplayer, and MachineGames on the campaign—seems like a reasonable thing to try next, given that it didn’t become a free-to-play phenomenon.

As a Quake 2 fan, I’m all for it. I was never hugely into its singleplayer campaign—to be honest, I’m not sure I ever finished it—but when Quake 3 went multiplayer-only, I missed that sci-fi adventure foundation, flimsy as it was.

Another sign that a new, old-fashioned Quake could be coming: A substantial Quake 2 remaster was released at last year’s QuakeCon. Aside from graphics upgrades and improved multiplayer support, the update added 28 new campaign levels from MachineGames.

Practice run?

If a Quake 6 reveal really is imminent, it’d be kind of absurd for it not to happen at QuakeCon. There are no dates for the id Software fan event yet, but it typically takes place in August. We might also get a tease in June during all the big showcases—there’s usually an Xbox and Bethesda showcase, which presumably will also include Activision Blizzard this year.

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All Genshin Impact codes from the 4.4 livestream

The Genshin Impact 4.4 livestream is the latest special program detailing what Travelers can expect to get up to in the coming update. If you’re a regular Genshin player, these streams are usually worth tuning into since they provide info on events and upcoming characters. More importantly, they drop livestream codes you can redeem for Primogems to use when pulling those characters.

It looks like the two new characters this time are Pyro four-star, Gaming, and Anemo five-star, Xianyun, who is the human form of Cloud Retainer. There are also speculated reruns for Xiao, Nahida, and Yae Miko. I’ll list the livestream codes below as they drop during the program—these usually expire within a day, so be sure to redeem them as soon as possible.

Genshin Impact codes: All current livestream Primogems

BBQ8AZHUH2CZ – 100 Primogems and ten Mystic Enhancement Ore
MT88AYHCZ2UR – 100 Primogems and five Hero’s Wit

How to redeem Genshin Impact codes

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