All the help you need to solve your daily Wordle is waiting below. There’s a range of tips if you’d like to refresh your everyday strategy, a hint written especially for today’s game if you need some guidance, and of course the full answer for the October 12 (845) game if you really need that win.

Some days it’s nailing down the last two letters that causes all the trouble; every obvious possibility ruled out and nothing else springing to mind. I was very much in that boat today, but luckily for me I still had enough wiggle room available to cast out a few exploratory guesses. Thankfully, one of them landed me the one letter that finally made today’s Wordle answer fall into place.

Today’s Wordle hint

Wordle today: A hint for Thursday, October 12

If you had gone down on one knee for someone in the past, you would have… what, for them? Other reasons for bending one or both knees also apply. Only one of today’s five letters is a …