I'm a high-risk, high-reward Wordle player. Oscar Gonzalez The first word you think of Then it's just a matter of putting all the letters I uncovered into the spots I think they're in, and banging my head on the table, saying, "I'm not this stupid, am I?" until I figure it out. I steal Mark's word, ADIEU, and follow it up with STORY. Either way, I dunno what we're all arguing about. But every time I stray from ADIEU, it manifests into a gigantic uphill struggle I barely recover from. Sometimes to shake things up - mostly based on pressure from Jackson Ryan - I'll try something different. Hilariously, I still sometimes misspell it. If it works for Pat Sajak's crew, it's good enough for me. I don't have a go-to word, since that feels sorta cheap, but I do generally aim for initial words that are high in either vowel count or the good old-fashioned Wheel of Fortune letters: RSTLNE. Connie Guglielmo Wheel good planįirst, I make sure to do it before my morning coffee, for an added layer of difficulty. With Wordle, we play against each other to see who can solve faster. I play Spelling Bee with my husband (he gets half the points to Genius I get the other half). (I got PANIC the other day in two!) But I have to say that while I enjoy Wordle, I'm still a bigger fan of the NYT's Spelling Bee, where you're asked to create words using seven letters, and each word has to use the letter at the center of the puzzle. I don't know if that says more about my frame of mind than my word solving skills, but this approach has pretty much led to me solving within three words. I've been playing around with using FIRST, MANIC or CHEAT to start with. Jackson Ryan CHEAT, and try the NYT Spelling Bee It's not about clearing each day in the least amount of moves, it's about learning to love yourself. Look around the room! TOAST? Why not? Just do it! Come on, people. Start with YACHT one day, try ULCER the next. Grab a dictionary, close your eyes and flick to a random page. That's my official rule and I'm flabbergasted y'all use the same word each day.
You aren't playing Wordle correctly if you use the same word to start every day. It's not so much tactical as it is about just having fun for five or so minutes. Then I move on to animal names like TIGER. That word puts me in the mood to 'create' the answer based on the data I get from knocking out the above letter combo. I then choose my next word based on the results, though sometimes I just throw up my hands and use both TEARY and PIOUS one after the other no matter what. I cycle through TEARY, PIOUS and ADIEU as a first word, to knock out some common letters and make inroads with vowels. At the very least, this often seems to give me something on the board early. I'm inspired a little by the Wheel of Fortune move of guessing RSTLNE first, and with this, I also knock off two vowels. Don't be afraid to deviate from your regular starter word, though - sometimes a random word that pops into your head ends up being way more intuitive than you could have ever imagined. Get 4 out of 5 vowels out of the way immediately and focus on narrowing down consonants. Hope it gives you a BOOST or maybe a NUDGE.ĪUDIO. In the meantime, I asked CNET staffers to share their Wordle strategies and favorite starting words. I asked Wordle creator Josh Wardle to share his techniques - I never heard back. The very first time I tried it out, I was able to use the letter info I gained from those guesses to get the word easily on my third attempt.
It's a great one-two punch that covers a lot of popular letters. That's what guesses three through six are for.Ĭheck out this CNET TikTok, which recommends starting with ADIEU and then throwing in STORY. I took some time and pored over a list of the most commonly used letters in English words, and lately I've been starting Wordle with the one-two punch of "TRAIN" and "CLOSE." That combo uses every single one of the top 10 letters, and it almost always leaves me with a decent group of correct guesses - though not always in the right spots. Game designer Tyler Glaiel suggests the mathematically optimal first guess is "ROATE," which isn't a word I'd heard of (Merriam-Webster informs me it's an obsolete spelling of "rote"). On the day that the wordle answer is ‘adieu’ social media will implode- vasili January 20, 2022