"looking at hints for this delightful, newish word puzzle." Okay Edith, so here I am, as promised, to give you my assessment, and I didn't even use the questionable "friend" link. Okay, so my question to you is: Why do you play Wordle? If the fun and challenge is to test your abilities at solving the puzzles, than who's getting cheated in the end, by your sneaking peeks at the answer? Kinda makes you go "Hmmm?" :-)