Wordle #456 Answer
September 18, 2022 · Sunday
The answer to Wordle #456 was
STICK: An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
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Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters, only one vowel.
How difficult was it for the solver?
In a replay of past puzzles, Wordle #456 scores 61/100 for solver difficulty (middle of the pack).
This compares past puzzles under the same solver settings; it does not measure how players performed. Compare more puzzles →
Wordle #456, measured
This section compares STICK's solver-difficulty percentile, first-guess results for ten familiar openers, and opt-in player reports. Each number identifies its dataset.
Solver difficulty, as a percentile
This score is a percentile, not an opinion. Under the site's fixed solver settings, STICK measured harder for the solver than about 61% of all 1,907 recorded answers to date. Its rating is middle of the pack. The example solver route takes four turns; CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU leave about 66.7 possible answers.
Solver pressure ranks the answer within the pool; it does not measure player performance. The opener table compares first-guess results, and the contributed ratings report player results.
CRANE, SLATE and ADIEU benchmark
TRACE left the fewest candidates: its first-guess feedback left 12 of the 2,374 words in the site's working answer pool. At the other end, AUDIO left 274 candidates, about 23 times as many. The vowel-heavy probes ADIEU and AUDIO revealed comparatively little here. Vowel coverage helps only when the answer's vowels are still in doubt.
| Opener | First-guess feedback | Answers still possible |
|---|---|---|
| TRACE | TRACE | 12 |
| STARE | STARE | 22 |
| SALET | SALET | 26 |
| ARISE | ARISE | 30 |
| RAISE | RAISE | 30 |
| SLATE | SLATE | 39 |
| TARSE | TARSE | 47 |
| CRANE | CRANE | 56 |
| ADIEU | ADIEU | 105 |
| AUDIO | AUDIO | 274 |
“Answers still possible” counts the words in the site's 2,374-word working answer pool whose feedback would match that opener exactly. This is pattern arithmetic, not a simulation. A smaller number means the opener left fewer possible answers after the first guess. It does not describe later turns.
Contributed player ratings
Not enough contributed games to publish player figures for this puzzle. Per-puzzle numbers appear only after at least 10 opt-in games arrive. See how the Observatory collects and publishes player data →
See the solver's route to STICK → It shows which guesses reduced the candidate pool on each turn.
Solver replay
One route our solver takes from its usual opening word to STICK.
The solver reaches the answer in 4 guesses.
Common questions
- What was the Wordle answer for September 18, 2022?
- The Wordle answer for September 18, 2022 (puzzle #456) was STICK.
- What does STICK mean?
- STICK: An elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
- Why was Wordle #456 tricky?
- STICK is rated tricky for estimated word difficulty. Why it may be difficult: uncommon letters, only one vowel.