NYT Wordle today — answer and my hints for game #1631, Saturday, December 6

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It’s time for your guide to today’s Wordle answer, featuring my commentary on the latest puzzle, plus a selection of hints designed to help you keep your streak going.

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SPOILER WARNING: Today’s Wordle answer and hints are below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to see them.

Wordle hints (game #1631) – clue #1 – Vowels

How many vowels does today’s Wordle have?

• Wordle today has vowels in two places*.

* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).

Wordle hints (game #1631) – clue #2 – first letter

What letter does today’s Wordle begin with?

• The first letter in today’s Wordle answer is W.

W is a fairly average letter when it comes to starting an answer. There are 82 solutions that begin with a W, with means that it ranks 13th – so right in the middle of the alphabet.

Wordle hints (game #1631) – clue #3 – repeated letters

Does today’s Wordle have any repeated letters?

• There are no repeated letters in today’s Wordle.

Repeated letters are quite common in the game, with 748 of the 2,309 Wordle answers containing one. However, it’s still more likely that a Wordle doesn’t have one.

Wordle hints (game #1631) – clue #4 – ending letter

What letter does today’s Wordle end with?

• The last letter in today’s Wordle is T.

T is a very common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only E and Y are more likely in that position.

Wordle hints (game #1631) – clue #5 – last chance

Still looking for more Wordle hints today? Here’s an extra one for game #1631.

  • Today’s Wordle answer is a part of the body.

If you just want to know today’s Wordle answer now, simply scroll down – but I’d always recommend trying to solve it on your own first. We’ve got lots of Wordle tips and tricks to help you, including a guide to the best Wordle start words.

If you don’t want to know today’s answer then DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER BECAUSE IT IS PRINTED BELOW. So don’t say you weren’t warned!

Today’s Wordle answer (game #1631)

NYT Wordle answer for game 1631 on a green background

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  • NYT average score: 3.3
  • My score: 3
  • WordleBot’s score: 3
  • My skill score: 89
  • My luck score: 67
  • My start word performance: SANER (17 remaining answers)
  • WordleBot’s start word performance: SLATE (7)
  • Tomorrow’s start word: SANER

Today’s Wordle answer (game #1631) is… WAIST.

We’re seemingly on easy street with today’s Wordle, which has an average of only 3.3 at the time of writing. If that doesn’t go up over the course of the day, it would make WAIST the equal easiest solution (along with PLEAD) for almost a month, since ARISE came in at 3.1.

Given that ARISE is a very common start word and therefore gave lots of people a hole in one, you could argue that WAIST is easier overall – because nobody starts with this. But that said, start words will still be a big factor here, because while W is not a common letter, the other four are.

Indeed, those of you who began with SLATE today had only seven options remaining after that first guess, while STARE left 12. However, the real stars were ARISE once again – for those who are still playing it – and RAISE, which left only two apiece.

Start word was a factor in my three, too, because SANER gave me a yellow S and green A, and cut my shortlist to 17.

I figured that the S would be most likely to go in the fourth slot, ahead of either T or H, but couldn’t come up with many words that fit that pattern. In fact, the only one I had was WAIST itself. More common were STY words – PASTY and HASTY – or S-in-the-middle words such as BASIC, BASIL, BASAL and BASIS.

I didn’t find all 17 – not even close – but decided to play BOILS next because it would do a nice job with the words I had come up with, and got lucky: the I turned green in the middle, but the S stayed yellow.

This effectively meant I now had three letters in the format -AIS-, which meant the answer had to be WAIST or DAISY (another word which I’d found on the previous turn).

I had an inkling that DAISY had been a past Wordle answer, so although I wasn’t by any means certain I went with WAIST and guessed correctly. As it happened, DAISY had appeared before – it was the answer to game #921, back in December 2023. That so long ago that I hadn’t really remembered it, obviously. But no matter, I got it right anyway.

Yesterday’s Wordle hints (game #1630)

In a different time zone where it’s still Friday? Don’t worry – I can give you some clues for Wordle #1630, too.

  • Wordle yesterday had vowels in two places.

* Note that by vowel we mean the five standard vowels (A, E, I, O, U), not Y (which is sometimes counted as a vowel too).

  • The first letter in yesterday’s Wordle answer was A.

A is a reasonably common starting letter in Wordle: 140 games begin with this letter. It ranks 6th among starting letters, behind S, C, B, T and P.

  • There were no repeated letters in yesterday’s Wordle.

Repeated letters are quite common in the game, with 748 of the 2,309 Wordle answers containing one. However, it’s still more likely that a Wordle doesn’t have one.

  • The last letter in yesterday’s Wordle was G.

G is not a common letter to end a Wordle answer – in fact only 41 of Wordle’s 2,309 games finish with one.

Still looking for more Wordle hints? Here’s an extra one for game #1630.

  • Yesterday’s Wordle answer is in the midst of.

Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1630)

NYT Wordle answer for game 1630 on a green background

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  • NYT average score: 3.8
  • My score: 4
  • WordleBot’s score: 3
  • My skill score: 95
  • My luck score: 48
  • My start word performance: SANER (48 remaining answers)
  • WordleBot’s start word performance: SLATE (202)
  • Tomorrow’s start word: SANER

Yesterday’s Wordle answer (game #1630) is… AMONG.

I always forget how common A is as a starting letter – it ranks 6th, behind only S, C, B, T and P, and ahead of some options that you might think would appear there more often, such as L, D and R.

There are in fact 140 Wordle words that start with an A, so it really shouldn’t surprise me to see it there, but I never usually think to go for it until late on.

Starting letters in Wordle

Rank

Letter

Frequency

1

S

365

2

C

198

3

B

173

4

T

149

5

P

141

6

A

140

7

F

135

8

G

115

9

D

111

10

M

107

11

R

105

12

L

87

13

W

82

14

E

72

15

H

69

16

V

43

17

O

41

18

N

37

19

I

34

20

U

33

21

Q

23

22

K

20

23

J

20

24

Y

6

25

Z

3

26

X

0

Here, the game pushed me towards playing it on the third guess. SANER had given me yellow A and N, and left a mere 48 options, and PLAIN supposedly reduced that to six. But I say ‘supposedly’ with reason, because three of the ‘Bot’s possible answers were UNTAG, UNJAM and ANCHO, and I don’t think any of those are likely solutions in reality.

NOMAD was, sure, but I didn’t think of that or those other three, The only two I did come up with were AGONY and AMONG, so for once I decided that A had to be at the beginning, and played AGONY next.

This was wrong, but it gave me the win for a four on the next guess.

Wordle answers: The past 50

I’ve been playing Wordle every day for more than three years now and have tracked all of the previous answers so I can help you improve your game. Here are the last 50 solutions starting with yesterday’s answer, or check out my past Wordle answers page for the full list.

  • Wordle #1630, Friday 5 December: WAIST
  • Wordle #1629, Thursday 4 December: TULIP
  • Wordle #1628, Wednesday 3 December: HASTE
  • Wordle #1627, Tuesday 2 December: CACTI
  • Wordle #1626, Monday 1 December: LEACH
  • Wordle #1625, Sunday 30 November: MUGGY
  • Wordle #1624, Saturday 29 November: GRUFF
  • Wordle #1623, Friday 28 November: COLIC
  • Wordle #1622, Thursday 27 November: REMIT
  • Wordle #1621, Wednesday 26 November: HOVEL
  • Wordle #1620, Tuesday 25 November: PLEAD
  • Wordle #1619, Monday 24 November: DOUGH
  • Wordle #1618, Sunday 23 November: BUNNY
  • Wordle #1617, Saturday 22 November: THICK
  • Wordle #1616, Friday 21 November: VOWEL
  • Wordle #1615, Thursday 20 November: GRAVE
  • Wordle #1614, Wednesday 19 November: MAKER
  • Wordle #1613, Tuesday 18 November: OPINE
  • Wordle #1612, Monday 17 November: CLAMP
  • Wordle #1611, Sunday 16 November: WIELD
  • Wordle #1610, Saturday 15 November: CLUNG
  • Wordle #1609, Friday 14 November: LURID
  • Wordle #1608, Thursday 13 November: TINGE
  • Wordle #1607, Wednesday 12 November: DEUCE
  • Wordle #1606, Tuesday 11 November: GIZMO
  • Wordle #1605, Monday 10 November: TABBY
  • Wordle #1604, Sunday 9 November: FUGUE
  • Wordle #1603, Saturday 8 November: ARISE
  • Wordle #1602, Friday 7 November: PERIL
  • Wordle #1601, Thursday 6 November: GUISE
  • Wordle #1600, Wednesday 5 November: SHORT
  • Wordle #1599, Tuesday 4 November: VENUE
  • Wordle #1598, Monday 3 November: AWOKE
  • Wordle #1597, Sunday 2 November: RABID
  • Wordle #1596, Saturday 1 November: MOTEL
  • Wordle #1595, Friday 31 October: ABHOR
  • Wordle #1594, Thursday 30 October: LATHE
  • Wordle #1593, Wednesday 29 October: GLARE
  • Wordle #1592, Tuesday 28 October: HOLLY
  • Wordle #1591, Monday 27 October: FETID
  • Wordle #1590, Sunday 26 October: PLUMP
  • Wordle #1589, Saturday 25 October: GAUGE
  • Wordle #1588, Friday 24 October: TUBER
  • Wordle #1587, Thursday 23 October: DRILL
  • Wordle #1586, Wednesday 22 October: STUNT
  • Wordle #1585, Tuesday 21 October: DETOX
  • Wordle #1584, Monday 20 October: LIMBO
  • Wordle #1583, Sunday 19 October: IDEAL
  • Wordle #1582, Saturday 18 October: HAVEN
  • Wordle #1581, Friday 17 October: GROSS

What is Wordle?

If you’re on this page then you almost certainly know what Wordle is already, and indeed have probably been playing it for a while. And even if you’ve not been playing it, you must surely have heard of it by now, because it’s the viral word game phenomenon that took the world by storm in 2022 and is still going strong in 2025.

We’ve got a full guide to the game in our What is Wordle page, but if you just want a refresher then here are the basics.

What is Wordle?

Wordle challenges you to guess a new five-letter word each day. You get six guesses, with each one revealing a little more information. If one of the letters in your guess is in the answer and in the right place, it turns green. If it’s in the answer but in the wrong place, it turns yellow. And if it’s not in the answer at all it turns gray. Simple, eh?

It’s played online via the Wordle website or the New York Times’ Games app (iOS / Android), and is entirely free.

Crucially, the answer is the same for everyone each day, meaning that you’re competing against the rest of the world, rather than just against yourself or the game. The puzzle then resets each day at midnight in your local time, giving you a new challenge, and the chance to extend your streak.

What are the Wordle rules?

The rules of Wordle are pretty straightforward, but with a couple of curveballs thrown in for good measure.

1. Letters that are in the answer and in the right place turn green.

2. Letters that are in the answer but in the wrong place turn yellow.

3. Letters that are not in the answer turn gray.

4a. Answers are never plural.

4b. …unless they are. There have been a couple of plural words that don’t end in an S or ES, including FUNGI (game #439), ATRIA (#1478) and TEETH (#1551). But S and ES plurals are definitely outlawed.

5. Letters can appear more than once. So if your guess includes two of one letter, they may both turn yellow, both turn green, or one could be yellow and the other green.

6. Each guess must be a valid word in Wordle’s dictionary. You can’t guess ABCDE, for instance.

7. You do not have to include correct letters in subsequent guesses unless you play on Hard mode.

8. You have six guesses to solve the Wordle.

9. You must complete the daily Wordle before midnight in your timezone.

10a. All answers are drawn from Wordle’s list of 2,309 solutions…

10b. …unless they are not. That’s because the NYT has added in some of its own words which weren’t in that list of 2,309 solutions. More will undoubtedly come over the next few years.

11. Wordle will accept a wider pool of words as guesses – some 10,000 of them. For instance, you can guess a plural such as WORDS. It definitely won’t be right (see point 4a above), but Wordle will accept it as a guess.

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Twitch star QTCinderella says she wishes she never started streaming

Laura CressTechnology reporter

BBC A woman, QTCinderella, is sitting wearing black over-ear headphones and black glasses, with a brown, open hoodie. She is speaking into a black microphone. In the background is a lamp and a vase of flowers and a window with pink curtains. BBC

The popular Twitch streamer QTCinderella says she would be a “happier person” if she could go back and tell her younger self to choose a different career.

The 31-year-old, real name Blaire (she does not make her second name public), became famous for playing video games and cooking meals in live videos for her 1.2 million followers online.

In 2021 she created the annual Streamer Awards, which will be streamed online on Saturday.

But she told the BBC while she felt “incredibly lucky” to be in her position, the negatives of the role – ranging from being under constant scrutiny to at times being concerned for her safety – makes it difficult to enjoy.

“If I could go back and never experience some of the things I’ve experienced because of this job, I do think I would be a happier person overall,” she said.

“The biggest thing I wish I could do, if I went back and was able to whisper in my ear, I would say, don’t do it.”

Getty Images A close-up of a woman's face, QTCinderella, in make up in front of a black background with white names of gaming logos on it such as Fortnite and OC Game Pass.Getty Images

Throughout 2025, several female content creators have spoken out about concerns of their safety, particularly when attending public events.

In March, three US Twitch streamers, Cinna, Valkyrae and Emiru, were taking part in a week-long marathon stream when a man threatened to kill them.

Then, at the annual streamer event TwitchCon in October, a man from the crowd grabbed Emiru and tried to kiss her without her consent.

While her personal security were able to intervene, she accused the on-site security team of not detaining him until hours after the event – something Twitch refuted in a statement.

Harassment – or the threat of it – is an issue which Blaire says she has also had to face since her rise in popularity online.

“I could open my Instagram DMs right now and read you 100 horrible things about why or how I could be harmed by people,” she said.

In 2021, Blaire said she spent over $2,000 (£1,500) every month to have heavily edited photos of her removed from the internet.

Then in January 2023, she discovered a deepfake website was using a likeness of her in pornographic material, alongside other popular female streamers.

Now, she said despite opening a craft shop in Los Angeles earlier this year, it’s rare she ever visits – because of men turning up to the shop and asking for her.

“I thought it’d be fun,” she said.

“Unfortunately, it’s gotten to the point where I can’t go there because we’ve had men show up looking for me.

“I don’t want it to be unsafe for my employees.”

From drama to positivity

Blaire said she thought security at the Streamer Awards would be “aggressive” in comparison to other events, as she hopes to help the attendees from the streaming world feel as safe as possible.

The ceremony recognises top creators across various categories like Gamer of the Year and Best Community, while this year’s Streamer of the Year nominees includes the most-followed Twitch streamer with 20 million followers, Kai Cenat.

A mix of 70% fan votes and 30% industry panellists decide the winners.

In November, Blaire faced accusations from viewers claiming certain popular streamers were blocked from particular categories for being too “problematic” – which she denied.

Clips of the streamer tearfully replying to criticisms of the event soon spread online.

“I think I need to respond less”, she said.

“But as a human, you just want to be understood”.

The constant ebb and flow of streamer “drama” which many content creators like Blaire experience is one of the reasons she finds the job tough – but she said it was also why she started the awards.

“For me, it’s really important to bring people together, because I do think there’s lots of toxicity on the internet,” she said.

“And if people were just able to have a dinner together or reach across the board, it makes a big difference.

“For one night of the year, the negativity is silent”.

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Insecure use of Signal app part of wider Department of Defense problem, suggests Senate report

The Signalgate scandal that enveloped US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in March appears to be symptomatic of a wider lax attitude towards the use of non-approved messaging apps by officials and employees, a Senate Committee has concluded.

In March, the US Senate Committee on Armed Services set out to examine issues raised by the Signalgate incident: the need to clarify the existing rules on using “non-controlled” apps, and looking at whether Defense Secretary Hegseth adhered to them in his use of Signal, and whether his actions were evidence of a wider culture of insecure app usage within the Department of Defense (DoD).

This week’s dual reports have come back with a mixed assessment of these points. Broadly, what Hegseth was accused of doing – communicating sensitive information using a third-party messaging app – appears to have been happening at the DoD in less serious contexts since at least 2020.

This mirrors issues familiar to enterprises: unsanctioned or unmanaged messaging apps, including ones touting end-to-end encryption (E2EE) security, quickly become an IT backchannel that can invisibly undermine carefully-assembled security, compliance, and data retention policies.

Shadow communications

The first report, an assessment of the Defense Secretary’s use of the Signal app to communicate with senior colleagues in advance of a military operation against Yemen on March 15, is used to illustrate the point. It confirms the widely reported fact that two hours before the raid, Hegseth revealed details of the operation to a Signal group of 19 people, including a journalist who had been added to it in error.

In doing so, the report agrees he violated security policies by sending sensitive information from a personal device, and using the non-approved Signal app in a way that revealed important operational details in advance of the strike. The report ducks the issue of whether this information was classified at the time it was sent, noting that Hegseth was senior enough to determine this for himself.

The second background report has uncovered evidence of a more general culture of shadow communications in the DoD, including widespread use of video-conferencing apps during the Covid 19 pandemic.  

The evidence gathered is sparse and partly redacted, making it difficult to assess the seriousness of any breaches. Because the scope of its remit was limited to the evidence from previous audits, one of the committee’s recommendations is to undertake a more comprehensive assessment of unsanctioned app usage inside the DoD. There’s also a question mark around how old audits analyzed by a Senate committee could accurately measure something that, by its nature, is hidden and only recorded on personal devices.

Nevertheless, the report says it is certain that Hegseth’s actions were not an isolated example, noting that staff had “used non-DoD-controlled electronic messaging systems for a variety of reasons. For example, some personnel used them because of the systems’ perceived appearance of security. As a result, DoD personnel increased the risk of exposing sensitive DoD information to our adversaries and did not comply with the legal obligation to retain and preserve official records.”

In short, while there was no evidence that unsanctioned app use is routine or normalized, it is likely that enough staff are using them to make a serious breach possible at some point. The report concludes that one of the reasons staff have taken to these messaging apps was that they lack convenient alternatives. It recommends developing approved apps to remove this need, implementing a training program to ensure existing communication regulations are complied with, and limiting the authority to use messaging apps to senior staff, in specific circumstances.

What’s surprising about this is that it has taken a major political row at government level to raise an issue that enterprise CISOs have been grappling with for years: the effects of BYOD, shadow IT (and now shadow AI), and unsanctioned apps that creep into organizations without anyone realizing it.

Over the last two decades, the rise of mobile devices, the cloud, and apps has radically de-centralized IT in ways that top-down management models struggle to control. Meanwhile, nothing has changed; the Signal app at the center of this scandal remains hugely popular on both sides of the political divide, despite the appearance of additional issues with the technology. 

This article originally appeared on CSOonline.

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Who would listen to AI ‘music?’

Music giant Warner Music Group announced last week that it had reached a “groundbreaking partnership agreement” with Suno, the AI startup at the forefront of AI-generated music it had sued for copyright infringement. After settling that fight, Warner Music signed new licensing models that allow Suno users to continue creating “music.”

Similar agreements have previously been inked with competitor Udio, and it seems highly likely that the other music giants will reach similar agreements. Whether it’s because record companies don’t want to risk making the “Napster mistake” again or they truly believe this is the future, AI services are here to stay.

Suno is undeniably popular. According to the company’s own figures, according to Billboard, users generate music equivalent to Spotify’s entire catalog every fortnight. The service has an admittedly high “wow” factor when tested. The results are impressive, technically speaking. But because it’s music, the question remains: who will listen to this?

I can understand the users, the people finding ways to express themselves creatively, even if it’s via prompts. If you think it’s fun to create AI-generated music, do it. Similarly, playing with Nano Banana for pictures, Sora for videos, or letting Chat GPT write a bedtime story is harmless. But just as no one wants to read an AI-generated book or be drowned in AI-generated images and clips, I don’t think music listeners are as keen on this.

If the services were intended solely for the creators themselves, the problem would be smaller. But unfortunately, the ambitions do not stop there. In its pitch deck to investors, Suno highlights the AI-created band Velvet Sundown, which became a talking point this summer: “Suno songs go viral outside the platform.”

And it’s that dream, to go viral or make a buck, that’s driving rivers of AI music to fill up streaming platforms. Spotify’s French competitor Deezer reports that more than 50,000 AI-generated songs are uploaded to the platform every day. And Spotify itself announced in September that it had removed more than 75 million songs that were considered pure AI garbage.

Sometimes it works. In addition to the aforementioned Velvet Sundown, country artist Breaking Rust recently gained attention when their song “Walk My Walk” topped Billboard’s country download chart and made it onto Spotify’s viral chart. (I hope these are the exceptions that prove the rule.)

A couple of weeks ago, I scrolled into a drama on Tiktok — as one tends to do on that platform — about the unknown artist Haven, whose song “I Run” topped Tiktok’s list of most popular songs. It had been revealed that the song was AI-generated and people were going crazy. Not because the song was bad, but because they felt cheated. Because it felt inauthentic. Because the music suddenly lost a lot of its value.

Authenticity should not be underestimated when it comes to music and other media. It may be that 97% of people can’t tell the difference between AI-generated and human-created music. But the feeling of being deceived is the same, whether it is disinformation in text and video or “good songs” created by AI. Artistic works also tend to be about an emotional connection to the work or to the creator, something I think a clear “AI labeling” of music would effectively kill.

Is there no use for AI-generated music then? Well, perhaps where that connection and authenticity doesn’t matter. A company like Sweden’s Epidemic Sound should be a little concerned. It licenses background music, what used to be called elevator music or muzak, for sound design in areas such as television and advertising. For those uses, AI music could be a cost-effective solution, just as AI-generated content is popular with marketers.

Haven had her song taken down from streaming platforms, and has now had to record a new version with real vocals instead of AI-generated ones. The singer whose voice was imitated, Jorja Smith, has demanded royalties through her record label.

How was the AI song made? With Suno. Maybe something for the next pitch deck.

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