New Delhi, July 5 -- breakfast bar ingredients, ways to settle a payment, a premium credit card product line, and a single letter of the alphabet that turns out to carry an unusual amount of meaning. Puzzle editor Wyna Liu keeps the first two groups accessible and saves the real misdirection for the back half.

yellow is the most accessible, green and blue sit in the middle, and purple is reserved for the sharpest lateral thinking and wordplay. Players are allowed four incorrect guesses before the puzzle ends, and a fresh grid resets at midnight in each solver's local time zone. Today's grid arrived overnight alongside Wordle #1842, which brought its own vocabulary challenge courtesy of a five-letter word rooted in Sanskrit.

Today's Hint...