Welcome back to the daily Wordle wrap-up. Puzzle #1892 landed on Monday, August 24 2026. Before we get to the answer, here are five hints — take them one at a time and quit reading whenever something clicks.
Today's Wordle hints
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- This is an adjective you’d most likely use for food, but it can also describe a nose.
- There is one vowel, and it sits in the second spot.
- It starts with R and ends with Y.
- You might use it for an undercooked egg yolk or for a drippy, watery texture.
- R _ N N _
Today's Wordle answer
A few thoughts on today's word
Mondays have a way of giving us a word that looks simple until the last letter starts causing trouble. RUNNY is one of those. It’s common in speech, very easy to picture, and still a little awkward on the board because that double N plus the ending Y can send you wandering into other guesses before it clicks.
I’d call this a fairly gentle solve, but not a total freebie. The structure is friendly once you have a couple of letters in place, though I can imagine people pausing over whether the ending should be Y, IE, or something else entirely. Words with doubled consonants often do that to me; I’ll stare at them and briefly convince myself English has betrayed me again. If you started with food words or texture words, you probably got close pretty fast. If not, this may have felt weirder than it really is.
What I like about RUNNY is that it’s so ordinary it almost hides in plain sight. It belongs to that useful little group of descriptive words we say all the time but don’t necessarily expect to type into Wordle. I could also see solvers getting sidetracked by words ending in -Y that describe texture or condition, especially once the R and N showed up. And if you’re still in a puzzle mood after this one, Story Spark or Guess the Author over on writeupcafe.com make a nice follow-up when you want something wordy but not quite as twitchy as Wordle.
What is Wordle?
Wordle is a daily five-letter word puzzle from the New York Times. Each day there's one secret word and six guesses to crack it; after every guess the grid colors each letter green (right letter, right spot), yellow (right letter, wrong spot), or grey (not in the word). It's available free at nytimes.com/games/wordle.
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