[Software] Today’s Wordle answer #259 (Mar 5) - with hints on why you never second guess

[THē-GHōST]

 

Morning - are you ready to Wordle? How's your Saturday going... for us, it's literally opening our eyes, tapping letters into a grid, (hopefully) finding the Wordle answer and rushing to the laptop to share it with the world. Well, the answer for Wordle #259 is both simple enough and likely to catch out a number of people around the world... so rather than just cheating and finding the answer, why not let us help you with some hints and tools We've saved streaks for others this week - here's how we can help you. And don't forget to get your dost of resident pro word wrangler Lance Ulanoff's daily Wordle solution diary - follow how he found his way to the Wordle answers this week and you'll be a done-in-three pro in no time. (But if you just want the answer, get scrolling down the page, skipping the hints and tools. You've probably got a meal to make or a date at the cinema, so nobody needs to waste time on Wordle). Oh man, we're grumpy with Wordle today. Not because it's fiendish (although we would call it 'on the trickier side') but because we did a stupid thing: tried to think laterally. Don't do that. Have an idea and go for it - trying to decide how obscure a word is and whether it's the likely answer is a fool's errand. The good news is that Google trends suggests that the world isn't having too much trouble with today's Wordle solution - which makes sense, as it's a pretty common word structure.Compare that to yesterday's 'AHEAD' and that seemed to flummox most people - probably because of the position of that 'A' at the start. Anyway, here are today's hints: It's got two vowels, split apart. It starts with the 17th most po[CENSORED]r letter in the English language. It ends with an E We weren't sure whether that last hint would make it too easy - once you know where that is, you should be onto a winner. Instead of scrolling to the Wordle answer section below, why not try a 5 letter word generator? There are loads of great tools online that can help you learn a bit more about the world of Wordle and how to get the right letters first - how about you check one of those out One of our favorites is WordFinderX, which allows you to put in letters at the start and the end if you know them and, crucially: allows you to enter any letters that don’t fit. Started to take advantage of the Words with Friends craze, this website has blatantly had a huge rise in traffic of late, but it really does do the job. You can also try WordTips, which does the same thing but with a slightly kinder UI. We also like The Free Dictionary, but that only lets you use 'contains', 'ends with' or 'starts with' - as well as 'unscramble'. And finally - check out this useful grid that shows the hottest letter pairings - it can really help focus your mind on what might go where, and helps us know if the puzzle is tricky or not. Right, now you can have the Wordle answer for today  Want today's Wordle answer for #259? It's BRINE. Yep, that's right, BRINE. Not BRIDE as we thought it was first - despite leaping to BRINE first in our mind. 'No, that's too obscure,' we said. 'NY Times has made it easier, so BRIDE is more likely,' we mentally opined. No, it was BRINE. We wasted a go trying to be clever. It could also have been BRIBE, thinking about it - thanks NY Times for not making it that hard. We would have wasted another go, for sure. What's the definition of BRINE? Well, it basically means - as a noun - water heavily impregnated in salt: Dave dove into the brine - the deep seas swallowing his body and, momentarily, his soul. He was at peace for just a brief second, before the pressures of life pulled him back to the surface. Dave was quiet for the rest of the day. It can also be used as a verb - to soak in salty water: Dave brined his gobstopper. It was a terrible idea and he had to throw it out. The po[CENSORED]rity of BRINE is on the wane since the mid-70s, which is likely due to the trend for using it as food preservation back then - in the last 30 years it's fallen to its lowest use ever, so it's quite an archaic word.