As much as we love Wordle, the online brainteaser can stump us all at times, as seasoned professionals and newbies alike can find it difficult.

This is why Newsweek has compiled a list of tips and tricks, to help you figure out the latest Wordle.

The game’s developer, Josh Wardle created Wordle for his puzzle-loving partner Palak Shah. He began working on the game in 2013 and later returned to the project in his spare time, during lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

If you haven’t tried it yet, you can do so here. The premise of the game is fairly simple, it requires players to guess a five-letter word in six attempts or less.

The puzzle is color-coded, and this helps you figure out the answer. So when a letter is in the right position, it will turn green. Any letters that are in the word but have been placed in the wrong position will turn yellow. Letters that aren’t in the word will become gray.

It became such a worldwide success that The New York Times Company bought Wordle from its original creator in January 2022 for an undisclosed seven-figure sum.

Other Wordle-inspired puzzles include the music-based Heardle, the math-based Nerdle, and the challenging Quordle, which requires players to solve four words in just nine attempts.

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Anne Heche opened up on the two actresses she would choose to portray her in a biopic of her life just months before she died.

Heche, 53, passed away on August 12 from brain injuries she sustained a week earlier during a fiery accident after her Mini Cooper crashed into a Los Angeles home.

Only a few months before her untimely death, Heche was quizzed about who would play her in a movie documenting her turbulent life.

In a foretelling of the tragic events to unfold, the Men In Trees actress revealed she had already given the question a lot of consideration.

Heche shared which two actresses she would want cast on the Behind the Rope podcast.

Anne Heche knew exactly which actresses she wanted to portray her in a biopic of her life
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“If they were going to make a movie about your life and they were going to cast a young, Anne Heche at the start of your career [does] any actress come to mind?” podcast host David Yentef asked her.

“I’ve already thought about it,” she declared.

Without skipping a beat, Heche declared she wanted either Miley Cyrus or The Good Place’s Kirsten Bell to play her.

“The two of them share a personality and ability to face the world in a way that I would want [because I have].”

Heche revealed an affinity for Cyrus because they both started as child actors—Cyrus as Hannah Montana and Heche in local theatre before starring in TV series Another World.

“I started when I was 12 supporting my family it was in dinner theatre in New Jersey making $100 a night,” she said.

The actress marveled at Cyrus’ ability to play two characters on Hannah Montana and then her transition into a global pop superstar in adulthood.

“To go from Disney to Wrecking Ball… that’s a pure artist, engaging with the world to give them the best possible time. She’s also a great f**king actress,” Heche explained.

She then revealed she loved Kirsten Bell who “gave me my second Emmy nomination,” after they played mother and daughter in the 2004 Lifetime movie, Gracie’s Choice.

“I see myself a lot in her,” Heche said, praising the actress for her talent and sense of humor.

“I don’t think it’s any mistake I played her mom and I want her to play me.”

But in an ominous twist, Heche also came up with the idea in the podcast to play her own mother in the biopic.

“That would get ratings,” she joked.

Heche suffered critical injuries in the dramatic crash on August 5, with footage appearing that also showed Heche’s vehicle reportedly hitting an apartment complex’s garage moments before the collision that would take her life.

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A man and his brother who “repeatedly” left his girlfriend and her friend behind on a challenging hike before they went “missing” have received a storm of criticism on online forum Reddit.

In a post shared on Reddit’s Am I The A**hole (AITA) subforum, the girlfriend (user cattiskillys) said she, her friend Paula as well as her boyfriend Jack and his brother Tyler made plans to go hiking and the user suggested an doing “easier flatter trail” because Paula would be hiking for the first time.

In a later post, the user said: “Everything about the planning of the trip made it obvious it was meant to be a slower paced walk on a beginner trail with chatting and snacks. Not a f***ing trail running day.”

However, on the day of the hike, “we started at a normal pace and the guys just kept going faster,” the poster said.

Paula later joked that they “should stop chasing and let them [the men] wonder” and the user suggested they “just hang out at the viewpoint until the guys noticed, or found us on the way back down.”

A couple carrying backpacks while walking along a hiking trail in a forest.
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According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), every year more than 600,000 people go missing in the U.S. and tens of thousands remain missing for over a year—what many agencies consider “cold cases.”

However, the number of those who have gone missing in America’s vast wilderness is unknown, as both the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees the National Park Service, and the U.S. Forest Service don’t keep track of this figure, The New York Post reported in July 2020.

But according to David Paulides, the founder of The North America Bigfoot Search (a database of wildland disappearances that took place under “mysterious circumstances”), there are at least 1,600 people still missing in the wild across the U.S., the Post reported.

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A giant great white shark the “size of a small four-wheel drive,” attacked and bit a teen who had been fishing in Australia.

Luke Pascoe, 17, had been spearfishing off Mistaken Island, near Goode Beach in Albany when the great white shark attacked, the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development said in a statement.

The teenager told 9News that he looked down and spotted the shark “cruising in front” of him.

“It took one turn, had a look at me, took another turn, and on that last turn it just came straight for me and bit me on the legs,” Pascoe told the news outlet, who said he then went into shock.

“You don’t really realise you’ve been bitten by a shark,” he said. “So I gritted my teeth and kicked as hard as I could with both legs just trying to get back to shore or at least to a point where I felt the shark couldn’t get me anymore.”

A stock photo shows a great white shark baring its teeth. A great white shark attacked a teen in Australia.
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Pascoe told ABC that his best friend Connor Shirley saved his life after giving him a piggyback to shore.

When Pascoe had been bitten, Shirley noticed what was happening and sprung into action. Shirley told 9News that he thought he was dreaming at first.

“It was huge, the size of a small four-wheel drive,” he told the news outlet.

The teen made a tourniquet from his dive belt to stop his best friend from bleeding and piggybacked his friend 2km to shore, ABC reported.

“I owe my life to him. I was lying in bed last night and I was thinking to myself how lucky I am to still be here,” Pascoe told ABC.

Pascoe was rushed to hospital and where they found several lacerations on his lower leg. He is currently still in hospital recovering.

Great white sharks can be found in coastal areas around Western Australia. They sometimes swim into the shallows, in areas where people swim. Despite their infamous reputation, great white sharks do not actively hunt humans.

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