Kickstart your Wordle week with our clue for the January 13 (1304) game, using Monday’s hint to supercharge your first line. Or save it for later if you prefer, and let it help make sense of some stubborn yellow letters. Need something more straightforward? Then click straight through to today’s answer. Hey, sometimes the alphabet seems to go on holiday and you just need a win.

I quickly found a nice cluster of green letters today, I just had to work out what on earth I needed to do with them. My earlier guesses had already ruled out a lot of the most obvious responses, although that did mean I spent a lot of time going “It’s got to be… ah, no.” as I poked at the puzzle. Finally revealing today’s answer felt great. 

Wordle today: A hint

Wordle today: A hint for Monday, January 13

The Half-Life 3 speculation mill has been running hot over the last few months. G-Man’s voice actor Mike Shapiro rang in the new year by posting a video in which he refers to “unexpected surprises” in the staggering voice of Half-Life’s dimension-hopping villain. Before that, evidence that Valve was working on a “Project White Sands” was revealed on an actor’s website—White Sands referring to an area of New Mexico where Black Mesa was supposedly situated.

Now, Reddit user Relevant_Basis5444 has spotted that Valve’s Steam page currently lists two projects beneath its “Upcoming Releases” tag (via Eurogamer). One of these is Deadlock, Valve’s third-person MOBA, which is currently in development, and technically unreleased despite thousands of people playing it right now. The other, however, is hidden from view. It’s worth noting that Steam developer pages can hide games from view depending on your filter settings. But this mystery game remains obscured even with all filters disabled.

There’s a hint for today’s Wordle right here and ready to help you win your Saturday game if you need it, as well as a fantastic collection of general tricks and tips if you’d like to learn how to turn every grey, yellow, and green letter to your advantage. And don’t worry if it’s still not working out for you, because the January 11 (1302) answer is right here if you need it.

My opening row gave me one rather weak clue to work with, so I had no choice but to seize it with both hands and just hope my instincts were somewhere close to… I wasn’t even really hoping for the answer, just seeing proof we were using the same alphabet would’ve been enough. Somehow I found myself staring at four shining green letters on the very next line, and with those in place there was literally only one other word left to try.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Saturday, January 11

Thanks to the office Steam Deck, I now have a choice of venues for playing Infinity Nikki: on the sofa, wrapped up in a duvet, AND avoiding all of my responsibilities. Jokes aside, handheld gaming PCs have ushered in an era of AAA gaming-on-the-go, but they’re still fairly bulky devices. Well, the latest collection from Asus sports bags that attempt to protect your preciously priced hardware in style.

With a price tag of $800 for the ROG Ally X, you can’t just pop your handheld into a sizeable pocket and carry on without first confronting the fear of a scratched-up screen at least; a specialised carry case is a must for anyone wanting to take their handheld further afield than the couch. As such, Asus has revealed new additions in its Slash line of travel bags specifically for stowing your ROG Ally and similar handhelds. Unfortunately…well, I’ll just put it this way: I don’t think these bags are going to feature in many look books this season.

Remember when a computer meant something that used traditional, familiar algorithms? Ah, simple times. Now we not only have machine learning—aka, supposed “artificial intelligence”—but also quantum computing, which uses microwaves to get qubits to do wacky and seemingly impossible things. Regarding the latter kinds of computers, though, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang reckons we’re quite far from seeing actually useful ones.

That’s straight from the horse’s mouth, so to speak, which you can witness for yourself by skipping to 40:00 in the video of the CEO’s recent investor Q&A (via The Register) held at CES 2025.