Wordle is a recently popular game involving word puzzles where everyone playing in the world is trying to guess the same words.
“Every day there’s a new five-letter word (a Wordle.) You get six attempts to guess it, and after each one the color of the tiles change to tell you whether a letter was in the word and in the right place (green), in the word but not in the right place (yellow), or not in the word (gray.)” – Wired.com
Check it out here: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
Here are some tips to get better scores!
1. Pick a starting word with lots of common letters. Since your goal on your first word is to identify as many correct letters as possible, try starting with words like “arise,” “stare,” “roast,” and “irate.” If you love vowels, how about “adieu”?
2. Remember there can be double letters. One of the toughest words so far since the Wordle sensation began was “abbey” because lots of people didn’t realize there could be double letters. So keep that in mind as you’re trying out possible answers.
3. Instead of building off your first word, try a second word with all different letters. If you get a few letters right in your first guess, your instinct will be to use those letters in every guess, but you could try a totally different second word instead.
For example, you could use the first word “notes” and the second word “acrid.” Now you’ve hit most of the common English letters and may have four or five good letters ready for turn three. You probably weren’t going to win on turn two after all.
A few other pairs of five-letter words that cover lots of common letters: “resin” and “loath” “tares” and “chino” and “senor” and “ducat.”
