Today’s ‘Wordle’ #992 Hints and Answer for Thursday, March 7 Game

Another day means there’s another Wordle puzzle for players to solve—and Newsweek is here to help if you need it.

New York-based software engineer Josh Wardle created the game as a way to entertain his partner during the coronavirus lockdown. The couple shared a love of crossword puzzles, so he developed Wordle as a way for them to spend quality time together.

It was released to the public in October 2021 and following this, Wordle exploded from 90 users on November 1, 2021, to 300,000 on January 2, 2022, according to figures by Statista. The New York Times purchased the game for an undisclosed seven-figure fee soon after.

Each day, players try to guess a new, five-letter word and have six attempts to do so. Within these six guesses, you use a designated color system to find out which letters are present in that day’s chosen word.

If a Wordle user guesses a letter that’s in the right place, that tile will turn green. If the letter appears in the word, but not in the place the user has guessed it, it will turn yellow. If the letter does not appear in the word at all, the tile will turn gray.

Speaking to Newsweek in January 2022, Wardle explained why he decided on five-letter words for the game.

“There is a reason that every word is five letters long and that you are allowed six attempts to guess it. That might seem arbitrary but, with the prototype version, I tested different word lengths and experimented with the number of tries that players were allowed,” he said.

“Through that process of refinement, I figured out that five letters and six tries was the ideal sweet spot. It’s just limited enough to feel challenging and to make you think, but most of the time people still manage to solve it. So, you feel a real sense of real accomplishment.”

Below, Newsweek has gathered five clues to help you solve today’s Wordle puzzle.

‘Wordle’ #992 Hints for Thursday, March 7 Game

Hint #1: There are no repeating letters in today’s Wordle.

Hint #2: The answer contains two vowels.

Hint #3: It is both a noun and a verb.

Hint #4: This Wordle puzzle begins with a consonant.

Hint #5: You might think of Star Wars when thinking of this word.

‘Wordle’ #992 Answer for Thursday, March 7 Game

The answer to today’s Wordle is “clone.”

According to Merriam-Webster, the noun definition includes “the aggregate of genetically identical cells or organisms asexually produced by or from a single progenitor cell or organism” and “one that appears to be a copy of an original form.”

The verb definition is “to propagate a clone from” and “to make a copy of.”

Congratulations if you were able to solve today’s puzzle but if you didn’t do not worry, the game resets every day at midnight, users local time.

Players who would like something to keep themselves busy while they wait can have a go at other word-based puzzles such as Typochondria and Spellspire.