Happy Friday! Celebrate making it to the end of the work week by figuring out the Wordle answer for today, 23rd August 2024 . For the uninitiated, the aim of Wordle is to work out a daily five-letter word within six guesses. The fewer the guesses, the better - and if you fail to guess it at all, you'll break your streak.

The latter is why working out today's Wordle answer is such a priority, as players pride themselves on keeping their streak going. So why gamble on a risky final guess when you can learn a few clues and, failing that, get the definitive answer? This page can help with that. Once you have today's word, learn more about Wordle and how the New York Times became interested in games in this interview with Jonathan Knight , Head of Games for the NYTimes.

In keeping with the word theme, we've also discussed why The NYTimes Mini Crossword is a reliable joy . Clues for today's Wordle answer Instead of going straight to the answer, you might only need a few hints to get you over the line: Today's word has one vowel in it. It has a repeating vowel.

This word starts with 'L'. You have to hunt this word in an unlockable minigame in Resident Evil 0. Still not sure? Read on for the answer.

Wordle answer for word 1161 on 23rd August 2024 Even with the above clues, still not sure and want to keep that streak going? The Wordle answer today is LEECH . Today's Wordle was surprising for me - I went ahead and started with good old 'WHALE', then tried 'HELIX'. I was a bit stuck her.