Let's end the weekend with a win. If you like, you can go straight for the answer to today's words — it's an easy click away, after all. Or you might want to spend some time with fresh clues specifically written for the game on May 9 (1086), but we can help.

Wordle really worked hard for me to find the answer today, but "find" is probably too strong a word. It's really "please do this right, I have nothing left to offer and all the characters I want to use are already gray."Let's hope that Cena Monday's game is a bit more relaxed.

Today's answer is the name of the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, a mythical being from Japanese folklore that lives near ponds and rivers.  

Yes, there are a lot of double characters in today's puzzle. 

Everyone can pick up and play Wordle, but if you want to do it well and count all of your guesses, these simple tips treat the game like a casual newspaper crossword, and if you're blank, there's no reason to come back to it later. It is not. Sometimes, stepping away for a while means you can come back with a fresh perspective. 

Enjoy Sunday's victory. In the article of Kanji 9 (1086), it is written as Kappa.

Past Wordle answers can give you some excellent ideas for fun starting words that keep you fresh solving daily puzzles. It's also a good way to eliminate word guesses today because the answers are less likely to repeat. 

Here are some recent Wordle solutions:

Wordle gives you six lines of five boxes every day, you need to start with strong words like

ARISE, or other words that contain a good combination of common consonants and multiple vowels to keep your streak going. You will also want to avoid starting words with repeated letters as you are wasting the opportunity to eliminate or confirm potentially extra letters. When you press Enter, you will see which is right or wrong. If the box becomes⬛ ️, it means that the letter is not in secret words at all. 🟨 means that the letter is in a word, but not in that position. 🟩 means you have the right letter in the right place.

You'll want your next guess to complement the first, using another "good" word to cover a generic letter you may have missed in the end, trying to avoid letters you know now due to the fact that they don't exist in today's answer. Then it's simply a case of using what you've learned to narrow your guess to the right word. You have six attempts in total and can only use real words and don't forget the letters can be repeated too

If you need any further advice, feel free to check out our Wordle tips and you can find out which words are already in use.

Originally, Wordle was dreamed up by software engineer Josh Wardle as a surprise to his partner who loves word games. From there it spread to his family and eventually opened to the public. Word puzzle games have since inspired tons of games like Wordle, refocusing daily gimmicks around music and math and geography. It wasn't that long before Wordle became so popular that it was sold to the New York Times for 7 figures. Indeed, it is only a matter of time before all of us communicate only in the tricolor box.