Use our collection of hints to help you with your daily Wordle game. Keep scrolling and you'll soon find tips for March 13 (998).

Today's game was over before I realized it: one green suddenly became four, and from that came the answer. A word I wouldn't normally dare use, but thank you for showing me the way. See you tomorrow for more of the same.

Today's answer refers to something or someone about a particular neighborhood or small community. Something or someone that is nearby or only in a particular place. For example, a store in a village, or the history of XX in a town.

Yes, the letter is used twice in today's puzzle.

Playing Wordle well is like getting a small victory every day:

There is no time pressure. It doesn't hurt to come back later if you struggle to find an answer or find a tactical word for your next guess.

Here's what you might need: the answer to the March 13 (998) Wordle is "LOCAL."

Knowing past Wordle answers helps rule out current possibilities. Since the same word is unlikely to be repeated, it helps to find clues to guess or words that are unfamiliar.

Here are some recent Wordle solutions:

Wordle gives you six columns of five boxes each day, and your job is to eliminate or identify which five-letter word is hidden and which letter it contains.

You should start with strong words such as LEASH, i.e., words that contain multiple vowels, common consonants, and non-repeating letters; pressing Enter will show you the correct or incorrect letter in the box. If the box goes to ⬛️, it means the letter is not in the secret word at all. A 🟨 means the letter is in the word but not in that position. 🟩 means that the correct letter is in the correct position.

The second time, you should compliment the starting word, using another "good" guess to cover the common letter you missed last time, while avoiding the letter you now know for sure is not present in today's answer. Then simply use what you have learned to narrow down the correct word. You can try six times in all, and you can only use real words (so you can't fill the box with EEEEE to see if there is an E). Remember that letters can be repeated (e.g. BOOKS).

If you need further advice, see Wordle's tips. Also, if you want to know which words are already in use, scroll to the relevant section above.

Wordle was originally conceived by software engineer Josh Wardle as a surprise for his partner, who loved word games. From there it spread to his family and was finally released to the public. Since then, the word puzzle game has spawned a slew of Wordle-like games, focusing the daily gimmicks on music, math, and geography, and it wasn't long before Wordle became so popular that it was sold to the New York Times for a seven-figure sum. Indeed, it would only be a matter of time before we would be communicating solely through tricolored boxes.