Today's Wordle Answer & Hints For February 24, 2024 (Puzzle #980)

Much like yesterday, February 24th’s also features a repeating letter that is bound to throw off many players. The answer often refers to a profession; however, many players won’t be able to guess it right away. However, if you use relevant hints or ’s special mode, you might be able to conserve your daily streak.

’s hard mode is not as hard as the name suggests, but it is slightly more time-consuming. The rules differ somewhat in that you will not be able to reuse confirmed letters in random spots. This removes the chance of using random guesses, which is the most common cause of losing your daily streak. However, there’s still a chance that you might need to use some hints to solve the answer.

Since today’s answer contains a repeating letter, you might be in a situation where you have only a few attempts. If that is the case, you might want to use a few hints that will give you more context about the answer and help you preserve your daily streak. Here are four hints that will help solve February 24th’s answer:

Hint 1

There is one repeating letter.

Hint 2

The answer is a noun.

Hint 3

The vowels are in the 2nd and 4th positions.

Hint 4

A bagpipe player.

The February 24th answer isPIPER.

We had a close call solving today’s answer. We almost lost our streak as we didn’t pick up on the repeating letter soon enough. We first used the words ROAST, PLANE, and PALER, which revealed the correct positions of a few letters but not the entire solution. Then we used the word PIPES, which luckily let us spot the repeating letter and the correct positions of all letters. Finally, we solved today’s answer with PIPER on our fifth attempt.