It is a pain in the ass, but it’s doable, even on a phone. Given that users around the world are playing this game, the puzzle number is by far the best way to identify a particular puzzle.
There’s also a ‘Feedback’ link on that page. I just sent them an email asking them to put the puzzle number on the main page, right under ‘WORDLE’.
In a new twist, today’s took me five in part because Guess 1 was a total miss:
PRIDE
BLACK
BOMBS
BOSSY
BOOST
I was lucky with first guess with 3 correct and in the right place. This is obviously some subliminal vaccine propaganda. 
Roast
Foist
Boost
The odd part is that the puzzle for any given date would differ, regardless of location.
On mobile, tap the gear icon in the top right corner. Then look for the puzzle number in the bottom right.
Wordle 197 6/6
This is what I get when I hit Share, and what I post on Twitter too. No need for blurred spoiler tags, and it gives the puzzle number too.
And despite Australia being ahead of America in timezone, I always get the puzzle after you do.
I’m also in the “use whatever five letter word pops into my head” camp.
Wordle 197 4/6*
I thought my first two guesses here were utter garbage, but they actually eliminated
four out of five vowels.
After that it was pretty easy.
Hmm okay then. It’s a software bug. Hopefully they’ll fix it in an upcoming release.
I’ve been thinking about this, and I think the way to figure it out is find out which country gets the updated puzzle first - it’s probably where the servers are located. If the puzzle updates at, for example, UK GMT, and every country west of London’s timezone gets to see the new puzzle at their midnight, that would fit. The test is to see if Europe and South Asia get the next puzzle after Australia gets it.
Good idea. But it wouldn’t be country, per se, but time zone. So perhaps it’s the Zulu time zone, or GMT.
ETA — are any of us in Iceland?
I’m only seeing blocks of color; I can’t see any of the words. Clicking on them, or anywhere else on the post, doesn’t help.
ETA:
STIPE
ROUST
BOAST
BOOST
ETA again, Jan 2, EST.
Correct. No words revealed, but if you know the answer, it gives you information you can extrapolate from.
I think that’s working as intended. Just showing my progress without any spoilers.
It isn’t showing your progress, because I can’t see what you did at all.
– do you mean that it’s just showing at first you had no correct letters, then four incorrect and one in the wrong place, and so on? That doesn’t seem to me to be showing the thought process you put into it; which is what I meant by showing your progress.
RATIO
STERN
TRUSS
Jan 3rd 2.10pm
Right. I wouldn’t say it shows a thought process - it’s more like a snapshot or scorecard.
Jan 3rd, puzzle #198
I was certain I had it at try #3 but for that [censored] repeated letter.
STORE
FIRST
TRASH
TRUSS
Also #198
TEARS
TORUS
TRUSS
TEARS
is a good starting word.
I thought I got lucky with three guesses, but apparently everyone managed to guess it in three.
GHOST
PRUNE
TRUSS
I felt lucky with the second one, after which I had three correctly positioned letters, and knew that the T had to be in first and couldn’t be last. So there was only one possibility left.