Wordle #1769 on Thursday, April 23, 2026, ended with the answer TWEET after a run of guesses that narrowed the board from 579 possible words to 14 and then to two. The writer got there with PLAID, SHORE, UNMET and finally TWEET, while the Wordle Bot and the writer each finished with 0 points.
The guide was published by Forbes and walked readers through the daily puzzle, which asks players to find a hidden five-letter word in six tries or fewer and uses feedback after each guess to point them toward the solution. PLAID was described as a non-starter that left 579 words remaining, SHORE cut that to 14, and UNMET left two potential answers and two green boxes before the final guess closed it out. The writer also said they did not think of BEGET.
That answer mattered because the same daily guide also included a bonus custom Wordle, a six-letter puzzle with two vowels in a row, and the previous day’s custom answer had been WHEEZE. The bot score and the writer’s score both landing at 0 underscored how much the day’s puzzle depended on getting to the right pattern at the right moment rather than on an easy opening.
The remaining question for regular players is not whether Wordle will keep producing these uneven daily swings, but how long a given puzzle can force even experienced solvers to grind through near misses before the answer snaps into place.
