Today's NYT Wordle lands with puzzle #1920, and a familiar word creates a sharper challenge than its everyday meaning suggests. Whether you are protecting a streak or opening the game for the first time, welcome to today's 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 #1920 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: Mostly common letters, with P the least frequent of the set
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 receiving a brief call for your attention.
Level 2 (The Category): A noun for a person or device associated with calling someone’s attention.
Level 3 (The Boundaries): Starts with P, ends with R.
Level 4 (The Structure): All five letters are different, and the vowels sit in positions 2 and 4.
Level 5 (The Giveaway): It is the small electronic device once carried to receive short alerts while away from a telephone.
Quick-Reference Clues
First Letter: P
Last Letter: R
Vowels Present: A, E
Double Letters: No
Rhymes With: MAJOR, WAGER
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 #1920 is: PAGER
Word DNA: Breaking Down Today's Answer
PAGER is a device that receives brief electronic alerts, and it can also mean a person who summons someone by paging them. A doctor might carry one while on call, or a receptionist might act as the person paging a colleague.
Origins: PAGER was formed from the verb page and the agent suffix -er. The electronic-device sense grew from page meaning to summon or signal someone.
Word Family: page, paged, pages, paging
Fun Fact: The suffix -er lets PAGER name either someone who pages or the device that performs the signaling. That familiar construction makes the word recognizable even when its opening letter remains uncertain in the grid.
The Streak Saver Rating
I rate this puzzle 3 out of 5, with a word-family trap as the main obstacle. Once AGER is fixed, EAGER, LAGER, PAGER, and WAGER can all compete for the grid.
All five letters are distinct, so duplicate-letter uncertainty does not add another layer to the challenge.
A solver who locks in AGER early can burn guesses by swapping only the first letter. A probe such as WHELP checks several competing initials at once and makes PAGER easier to isolate.
What This Puzzle Teaches
When four positions create a crowded word family, stop cycling through candidates and use one information-rich probe. Testing several unresolved letters together protects guesses in this puzzle and in future grids with the same structure.
Tomorrow's Reset
Puzzle #1921 drops at midnight in your timezone, Monday handing the streak over to a fresh board.
How did your PAGER solve go, a clean finish or a battle with the AGER family? Reset the board and bring the probe-guess lesson into tomorrow’s game.
See you at midnight for the next challenge.
