Looking for a Monday distraction? Spend your time figuring out the Wordle answer for today, 26th 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 two different vowels in it. There are no repeating letters in this word.

This word starts with 'S'. Today's word is..

. eerily similar to yesterday's word. Still not sure? Read on for the answer.

Wordle answer for word 1164 on 16th August 2024 Even with the above clues, still not sure and want to keep that streak going? The Wordle answer today is STAKE . Today, I decided to start off with the classic 'GAMER', which gave me two yellow vowels. From there, I tried 'WHALE', which wasn't .