Hurdle Hints and Answers for August 23, 2025

Highlights

• Game Format: Hurdle consists of five rounds where players guess words using clues from previous guesses.
• Hints: Each round provides correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters to assist in guesses.
• Final Round: The last hurdle consolidates clues from previous rounds into a single challenge.
• Letter Indication: Highlighted letters do not always reflect their frequency in the final answer.

If you like playing daily word games like Wordle, then Hurdle is a great game to add to your routine.

There are five rounds to the game. The first round sees you trying to guess the word, with correct, misplaced, and incorrect letters shown in each guess. If you guess the correct answer, it’ll take you to the next hurdle, providing the answer to the last hurdle as your first guess. This can give you several clues or none, depending on the words. For the final hurdle, every correct answer from previous hurdles is shown, with correct and misplaced letters clearly shown.

An important note is that the number of times a letter is highlighted from previous guesses does not necessarily indicate the number of times that letter appears in the final hurdle.

If you find yourself stuck at any step of today’s Hurdle, don’t worry! We have you covered.

Hurdle Word 1 hint

Tall and thin

Hurdle Word 1 answer

LANKY

Hurdle Word 2 hint

Short.

Hurdle Word 2 Answer

BRIEF

Hurdle Word 3 hint

Excessive.

Hurdle Word 3 answer

UNDUE

Hurdle Word 4 hint

A Russian prison.

Hurdle Word 4 answer

GULAG

Final Hurdle hint

Muck.

Hurdle Word 5 answer

SLUSH

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