If you’re a lover of daily word challenges like Wordle, you should consider adding Hurdle to your puzzle-solving collection. This captivating game puts players to the test over five rounds, with each round building upon the previous one.

Here’s how it functions: In the initial round, you guess a five-letter word and receive feedback on letters that are correct, misplaced, or incorrect. After solving it, you proceed to the next round — or “hurdle” — where your last answer acts as your starting guess. This can provide useful hints, or occasionally none whatsoever, depending on the word. By the final round, all your previously correct answers help guide your guesses, with visible markers for correct and misplaced letters.

One crucial piece of advice: Just because a letter was highlighted several times in earlier rounds doesn’t imply it appears that many times in the final word.

Having trouble with today’s Hurdle? No problem — we have all the hints and answers you need listed below.

Hurdle Word 1

– Hint: A theft.
– Answer: HEIST

Hurdle Word 2

– Hint: What a parent may do to a misbehaving child.
– Answer: SPANK

Hurdle Word 3

– Hint: A breed of dog from the Arctic.
– Answer: HUSKY

Hurdle Word 4

– Hint: To tease or provoke someone.
– Answer: FLIRT

Final Hurdle

– Hint: Oval in shape.
– Answer: OVATE

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