Strategies for Winning Wordle Games

Wordle is the obsession that gripped the world in late December of 2021 and became the first viral trend in January 2022. It continues to fascinate people who learn about it. The New York Times calls the game a love story, which it is essentially, since the game was created by Josh Wardle for his partner.

The name of the game is a play on the creator’s last name. After the game became a rage with his family, friends and then the general public, he optimised it to enable sharing of results without giving out spoilers.

If you too enjoy playing this intriguing and addictive game, here are some strategies that will help you get better at it. With these strategies, your chances of arriving at the correct solution within 3 guesses increase. It will also help you in reducing the number of guesses required each time.

1. Begin well:

As with every game, it is important to get a head start. The trick is to remember that most five-letter words have at least one or two vowels. If you use a five-letter word that has three to four vowels as your first guess, then your chances of getting green or yellow letters increase. In the next guesses, you can utilise the remaining vowels.

Here are some words that might give you an edge:

• Audio
• Adieu
• Saute
• Cameo
• Cause
• Argue
• Alien

2. A well-crafted second guess:

Make use of what you found in the ‘vowels first’ strategy. Your next guess should include the letters that turned yellow and green on the first try and exclude the letters that turned grey. Additionally, include other letters that were not present the first time. If all the letters in your first attempt turned up grey, then try a completely different combination.

For example, if you tried alien as your first word, and nothing turned up yellow or green, then you might want to move in another direction. You eliminated three vowels on your first attempt, so go for a word that has O or Y in it. For your second attempt, you could go for crowd. This word has none of the letters that turned grey and more varied consonants.

3. Use an online tool:

You want to show off your results on Twitter or other social media and do not want to be embarrassed in front of your friends who got it right quickly. What would you say if you were told that there is a free tool online that could help you arrive at the correct solution easily and quickly? There is a word unscrambler available which can help you guess the right word once you have shortlisted the possible letters.

You can even make use of the features that allow you to look for words beginning with a specific letter, or ending with a specific letter. There is even a cheat sheet of 5 letter words that might prove very useful to you.

4 Utilise wordlestat.com

Wordlestat shows you how people fared globally in the day’s game. This helps you understand how easy or difficult it is to arrive at the right answer.

In the game length section, you can understand how many tries it took for people to get the correct answer. In the example below, most people got it correct on the fourth try. If it took long for most people to get it, it is probably a not-so-common word. You might have to think outside the box (an unintentional pun).

The letters in the places with the most yellow and grey are the ones that are particularly tricky to guess. It may mean an uncommon letter or a repeat letter.

Armed with these strategies, you are now ready to take on today’s Wordle challenge. Make sure to brag about your win on social media.

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