Todays Wordle Answer: Tom's Guide Flags May 13 #1,780 Repeated Letter

Tom's Guide said todays wordle answer for May 13's Wordle #1,780 was one of the trickier puzzles it had covered recently. The answer had a repeated letter, which made it harder for players who lean on early guesses to clear five different letters.

Wordle #1,780 on May 13

The average player finished Wordle #1,780 in 4.4 moves in easy mode. The average player finished it in 4.3 moves by hard rules. Those scores put the puzzle well above the kind of quick solve many players want when they are trying to protect a streak.

Repeated Letters In Wordle

Tom's Guide tracks the daily New York Times word game every morning. It said there were two parts to the answer that made it particularly difficult to guess. One of them was the repeated letter, and that is the kind of feature that can slow down players who usually spend their first few turns testing five unique letters for information.

The comparison point is telling. Puzzle #454 in September 2022 arrived with a score of 6.3. May 13's result did not reach that level, but it still landed among the trickier recent solves Tom's Guide had covered.

September 2022 Puzzle #454

For players who treat Wordle like a streak exercise, the practical takeaway is simple: a repeated letter should keep more than one possibility alive longer than usual, so a guess that looks efficient can still miss the answer pattern. May 13 rewarded patience more than the usual open-with-five-new-letters approach.

The remaining question is whether this kind of answer pattern will show up again soon in the daily puzzle, because the context only gives the May 13 result and the older September 2022 comparison.