Wordle Game 212 Answer for Today, January 17, 2022

What is the answer for Wordle game 212, which dropped on January 17, 2022? Keep reading if you want the solution. If you want to keep trying on your own, stop reading!

Below you can find the Wordle answer for today, January 17, 2022.

People posted their Wordle scores for game 212 on Twitter. The new Wordle game drops at midnight in each time zone; thus, some people play it before others have a chance to do so. It’s also available in England, as well as the United States, and people in the former country may be more familiar with today’s word (yes, that’s a hint).

You get six tries to solve the Wordle, but today’s puzzle may stump some people. To give you a hint, a lot of people googled five letter words that start with “sh.”

Wordle is an online, free word game that has blown up on social media and online. It’s addicted a lot of people online.

Here’s what you need to know:

The Wordle Answer for Today Is: Shire

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The answer to Wordle game 212 is the word shire.

Some people gave it away on Twitter.

What is the definition of shire?

The Merriam-Webster dictionary explains:

Definition of shire

1 : an administrative subdivision especially : a county in England
2 : any of an old breed of large heavy draft horses of British origin having heavily feathered legs

The Wordle answer for game 211 on January 16, 2022, was solar. The Wordle answer for game 210 on January 15, 2022, was panic. If you’re looking for Wordle answer 209 from January 14, 2022, instead, that answer was tangy. The Wordle number 208 from January 13, 2022, instead, the answer to that Wordle was “abbey.”

How do you play Wordle?

The free game is available at the Wordle website which explains how to play it. It’s pretty simple. “Guess the WORDLE in 6 tries. Each guess must be a valid 5 letter word. Hit the enter button to submit. After each guess, the color of the tiles will change to show how close your guess was to the word,” the website says.

The Squares Turn Different Colors to Help You Guess Today’s Wordle Answer

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Color coding gives you hints about how close you are when playing Wordle.

For example, if the letter’s square turns green it means that the letter is in the word and in the correct spot, but if it turns yellow, it means the letter is in the word but in the wrong spot.

If the tile doesn’t turn green or yellow, it means that the letter is not in the word at all.

A new Wordle is available every day, the website says.

To start, just put any five-letter word. Then hit enter, check the color doing, and enter another one. Keep going until you get the word right or run out of tries.

If you pick a word that isn’t a word, it will say it’s not in the word list. You can repeat letters. For example, if you place the letter B in a square and that square turns green, meaning it’s right, you can still put the letter B in another tile in your next turn.

According to NPR, everyone gets the same word, and you can share your results on Twitter. People try to best other people by guessing the wordle accurately in the fewest tries.

Who Created Wordle?

GettyThis photo illustration shows a person playing online word game “Wordle” on a mobile phone in Washington, DC on January 11, 2022.

According to NPR, software engineer Josh Wardle of New York City created the Wordle and named it after himself.

He originally made it for his partner Palak Shah, who “helped with some of the development,” according to NPR, which adds that the game has 2.7 million players, and it took off in October 2021.

You can practice Wordle here through a free Wordle answer archive. This page has a Wordle helper.

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