Today's NYT Wordle lands with puzzle #1867, and a moderately tough challenge rewards careful vocabulary recall over reckless pattern chasing. Whether you are protecting a long streak or opening the grid for the first time, welcome in.
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 #1867 awaits.
The Letter Rundown
Today's puzzle breaks down like this:
Vowel Count: 2 vowel(s)
Consonant Count: 3 consonant(s)
Repeated Letters: No repeats today
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 of something built to guide a force of nature along a controlled path.
Level 2 (The Category): it is a noun for a narrow passage associated with moving water.
Level 3 (The Boundaries): Starts with F, ends with E.
Level 4 (The Structure): All five letters are different, and the vowels sit in positions 3 and 5.
Level 5 (The Giveaway): picture an artificial channel or chute that carries water, sometimes for transport, industry, or measurement.
Quick-Reference Clues
First Letter: F
Last Letter: E
Vowels Present: U, E
Double Letters: No
Rhymes With: BLOOM, BROOM, ROOM
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 #1867 is: FLUME
Word DNA: Breaking Down Today's Answer
The solution names a narrow channel or chute built to carry water. You might encounter one at an old mill, beside a logging operation, or in a system that measures flowing water.
Origins: The word entered English through Anglo-French and ultimately traces to the Latin flumen, meaning river, from a root associated with flowing.
Word Family: flow, fluid, fluent
Fun Fact: Specially shaped open channels can help measure water flow because the water depth corresponds to the discharge rate. That technical life gives today's solution a familiar sound but a less frequently recalled meaning, an effective Wordle combination.
The Streak Saver Rating
I rate this 4 out of 5. The trap factor is the _LUME pattern, where the familiar PLUME can draw an early commitment while the required opening consonant is less expected.
A solver who uncovers LUME can spend guesses cycling through PLUME and the botanical GLUME. A probe such as GRAFT tests two competing opening consonants at once and leaves the remaining candidate easier to identify.
What This Puzzle Teaches
When four positions form a recognizable frame, do not automatically choose the most familiar completion. Use one information-rich probe to test several competing letters, especially when the obvious candidate has not been fully confirmed.
Tomorrow's Reset
Puzzle #1868 drops at midnight in your timezone, Thursday handing the streak over to a fresh board.
That is today's water-channel test complete. Did you recognize the meaning immediately, or did the ending send you toward a more familiar word first?
See you at midnight for the next challenge.
