Today's NYT Wordle lands with puzzle #1862, and offers a welcoming surface with a sneaky structural trap underneath. Whether you are protecting a streak or playing your first grid, settle in and enjoy the solve.
The Basics (For New Players)
Wordle gives you six attempts to crack a five-letter word. After each guess, tiles change color: green means right letter, right spot; yellow signals right letter, wrong position; gray indicates the letter isn't in the word at all. One puzzle per day, shared by millions worldwide. That's the beauty of it.
Created by Josh Wardle in 2021 and now part of The New York Times Games family, Wordle has become a daily ritual for word lovers everywhere. Today's puzzle #1862 awaits.
The Letter Rundown
Today's puzzle breaks down like this:
Vowel Count: 3 vowel(s)
Consonant Count: 2 consonant(s)
Repeated Letters: Yes - the letter A appears twice
Letter Rarity: All common letters
The Elimination Game (Progressive Hints)
We've designed these hints to reveal just enough at each level. Stop when you've got it figured out.
Level 1 (The Vibe): Think warmth, openness, and an easygoing welcome.
Level 2 (The Category): It functions as an interjection and a noun associated with greeting, farewell, and goodwill.
Level 3 (The Boundaries): Starts with A, ends with A.
Level 4 (The Structure): One letter appears twice, once in position 1 and again in position 5.
Level 5 (The Giveaway): It is the welcoming or parting word most closely associated with Hawaii.
Quick-Reference Clues
First Letter: A
Last Letter: A
Vowels Present: A, O
Double Letters: Yes - A
Rhymes With: NONE
Today's Wordle Answer
Final warning: The answer is directly below. Scroll only if you're ready.
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The answer to Wordle #1862 is: ALOHA
Word DNA: Breaking Down Today's Answer
ALOHA is today's answer.
It is a Hawaiian word used for both greeting and farewell, with broader associations of love, affection, compassion, and goodwill. You can offer it when welcoming someone, saying goodbye, or describing a generous spirit.
Origins: English borrowed ALOHA directly from Hawaiian, where the word carries senses connected to love, affection, compassion, greeting, and farewell.
Word Family: aloha, alohas, aloha shirt, aloha spirit
Fun Fact: The same word can open a meeting and close it, giving ALOHA unusual everyday range. In Wordle, that familiarity contrasts nicely with its doubled boundary vowel, which is easy to overlook.
The Streak Saver Rating
I rate today's puzzle 3 out of 5 for difficulty.
The trap factor is the repeated A at the two ends, combined with three vowels across the first, third, and fifth positions. A solver who assumes every discovered vowel appears only once can burn valuable guesses.
The trap begins when one A registers and the solver treats it as fully accounted for, searching only patterns with a different final letter. A probe such as BANAL can test the doubled A while also checking useful consonants.
What This Puzzle Teaches
One confirmed copy of a letter never proves there is only one. When the remaining pattern resists familiar words, test duplication deliberately instead of cycling through near-identical candidates.
Tomorrow's Reset
Puzzle #1863 drops at midnight in your timezone, Saturday handing the streak over to a fresh board.
How did your ALOHA solve go, smooth greeting or stubborn goodbye?
See you at midnight for the next challenge.
