How does Wordle indicate correct and incorrect guesses?

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When a player guesses a letter that is not in that day’s Wordle, the letter turns gray. Letters that are in the puzzle but do not appear in the position that was guessed turn gold. When a player guesses a correct letter in the correct place, that letter then turns green. Players use the information to make subsequent guesses and have six tries to guess the correct five-letter word.