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What is Todayโs Hurdle?
Todayโs Hurdle is a fun, tough twist on Wordle, the popular word-guessing game. If youโve been caught up in the word-game craze, youโll love the challenge of Todayโs Hurdle!
How does it work?
In Todayโs Hurdle, youโll get six tries to guess a five-letter word. Start by guessing any five-letter word. When you submit it, youโll see some letters receive a yellow background, and some letters receive a green background.
If the background is green, youโve guessed the correct letter in the correct spot. If itโs yellow, that letter exists somewhere else in the word. Try to figure out the correct word before using all six tries!
How is Todayโs Hurdle different than Wordle?
The basic rules, above, match up with Wordle. But Todayโs Hurdle separates itself by offering five puzzles every day.
When you get your first puzzle correct, the final word will pre-populate as the first โguessโ of the next puzzle. For instance, if the answer to the first puzzle is โocean,โ the second puzzle will begin with โoceanโ already in the first guess. If any of the letters in that word match with the new answer, youโll see them with yellow or green backgrounds.
Todayโs Hurdle has an extra challenge if you get to the fifth and final puzzle of the day. If youโve guessed all four puzzles correctly, the fifth puzzle will begin with the first four guess slots filled in with the answers of the previous puzzles. That means you get just two guesses to beat the game!
How can I get more points?
The scoring in Todayโs Hurdle breaks down like this:
If you finish a puzzle on your fourth guess, youโll have two unused lines โ which means you get 1,200 points!
These rules are the same for all five puzzles โ no one puzzle is more important, score-wise, than the others. However, you get an extra bonus for finishing the fifth puzzle. You still get 1,000 points for solving the puzzle, and 100 points if you have an unused line. This time, though, youโll get 4,000 additional points for winning!
How often can I play a new game of Todayโs Hurdle?
A new suite of puzzles will become available every day!
Can I play all five puzzles if I donโt solve one?
No. If you canโt solve one of the puzzles within six guesses, you get a game over for the day.
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@DeniseL834804 , you can do several things besides search. The game is listed in the Games section (not here in the community forum - didn't know where you were searching). The main side bar menu reached by clicking the 3 bars with "Menu" under it at top left. Scroll to "Games", click that and it takes to the listing for all Games. At "Word" games grouping click "View More" . That takes you to all the Word game listings and Today's Hurdle is there.
Also, at the bottom of this all games listing page is a "Recently Played". This shows you 3 games that you have recently played. If you haven't played too many games, the Today's Hurdle" link may be there from the day before.
Easiest way is to bookmark this game or your other favorites by whatever method your browser uses. Here is the url link to "Today's Hurdle".
https://games.aarp.org/games/todays-hurdle
Hope this helps.
To get 16,200 points, you need to guess every word on the first guess. Some of the words have no clues. So, it would seem virtually impossible to guess every word.
However, the rules mention "Gems", which can provide clues. That could be the answer. How does one get a Gem?
Yep! I had a friend provide me with the answers to one of the daily games just to see if that's how all those 16,200s are being achieved. There's no way I'd have guessed each of those words without some sort of clue but, yeah, when I put in the words I'd been provided with my score was 16,200. I kinda felt cheated, not because others are clearly cheating to get their name on the leaderboard (I consider it cheating since that particular game is intended to be played only once a day by each person) but because I didn't get to actually play the game that day. You would think that by the time we're of AARP age, we'd be beyond that sort of manipulation. And, really, what kind of satisfaction can you get out of seeing I681753m on the leaderboard with a score of 16200? LOL!
It's gotten to the point where if I don't play as soon after Midnight as possible, I don't even want to play. If I wait 'til the next afternoon, it's just a string of 16200's. I noticed someone who was always getting 10800 (meaning a perfect score on the standard game) and I wondered why she wasn't playing Hard mode if she knew all the answers. Clearly she hadn't figured that out until the past week or so because when I log in to play each day, she's already at the top of the list with a 16200. I can't help but wonder if they really think they're fooling anyone.
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