Puzzle #1942 is a Tuesday grinder: an everyday word you’d use over breakfast and still need four guesses for. Below you’ll find five progressive hints that start gentle and end blunt, a straight read on why this one traps people, and the answer sealed inside a spoiler box at the bottom. Haven’t played yet? The official game lives on the New York Times Wordle page. Read the hints slowly and stop the moment a guess clicks.
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Wordle #1942 hints for Tuesday, Oct 13
Each hint reveals something new. Stop the moment you feel lucky.
- Repeats. No. All five letters are unique, so every grey letter is genuinely dead.
- Vowels. Two of them: I and E.
- Starts with. W. An opener that pins the W early cuts the remaining field hard.
- Second letter. I. That locks the WI opening pair and kills most rhyming guesses.
- Meaning. The comparative of a common word for “broad.” Think the opposite of narrow.
Difficulty 4/5: why this one is tricky, and how to beat it
Comparative adjectives ending in -ER are Wordle ambush material. Once the E and R land, players start cycling rhyming guesses, RIFLE, RIDER, RIVER, and burn two rows learning nothing. Here the WI opening makes it worse: the most popular openers (CRANE, SLATE, ADIEU) never test W, so the starting row goes quiet and guess two has to do all the work. If you’re stuck at WI??R, stop guessing whole words and test the consonants instead: WIELD checks whether D and L belong, and its E placement either confirms the ending or rules out the whole -ER shape. One probe, three answers.
Recent Wordle answers
A quick look back, in case you’re tracking patterns:
- October 8, #1937 — STREW
- October 9, #1938 — MAJOR
- October 10, #1939 — BUMPY
- October 11, #1940 — UNCAP
- October 12, #1941 — YODEL
Wordle answer for October 13, 2026 (Puzzle #1942)
No more hints past this point. The solution is inside the box below. Tap only when you’re ready.
Tap to reveal today’s answer (spoiler)
Today’s Wordle answer is WIDER. It’s an adjective, the comparative of “wide,” meaning stretching farther from one side to the other. It’s the kind of word that hides in plain sight, and you probably said it in a sentence this week without thinking.
Wordle questions, answered
What other recent Wordle answers started with W?
Two in the last month: WAKEN (September 19, #1918) and WISPY (September 16, #1915), both confirmed across two independent answer archives. Openings like that are worth remembering, since W leads are the blind spot of most popular starter words.
How hard was today’s puzzle, officially?
The New York Times’ own review data puts today’s answer at an average of 5.5 guesses out of 6 (via Insider Gaming’s summary), which lands on the harder side of average and matches the 4/5 call above. If it took you all six, you were in good company.
