Following its public debut, Wordle exploded from 90 users on November 1, 2021, to 300,000 on January 2, 2022. The New York Times purchased it for an undisclosed seven-figure fee and, soon after, it became the publication's most popular game.

As always, we're serving up our daily hints and tips to help you figure out today's answer. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed.

All players have six tries to guess the five-letter answer for each day’s “Wordle” in the games section of the publication. So, what was today’s Wordle answer? See the hints for the January 21, 2025,