![]() However, it only grew in popularity towards the end of the year, then went viral in January as the world woke up to its charms. (You can read my thoughts on the 5 things Wordle needs to improve if it's to keep us playing for its second year.) Wordle officially launched in October 2021, but actually started in June of that year and celebrated its first birthday on June 19, 2022. We also have plenty of Wordle tips and tricks to share, like how we've analyzed every Wordle answer to look for patterns and have some further advice for you there. And if you're new to the game you should also take a look at our What is Wordle? guide. This technique has worked for me multiple times, and it's particularly helpful when the word in question is not an obvious one (like FJORD or ISLET).īut if you're still struggling with Wordle, check out how Tom's Guide's Wordle experts have honed their strategy after playing every Wordle so far and losing only once. Put in likely letters plus any you know are definitely in the word, then mentally change one to the other available options. So long as you don't press 'Enter' you can try possible answers to see how they look on screen. It also appears at the end of plenty of words.įinally, try out possibilities. Plus, remember the Y - this sometimes acts as a surrogate vowel, and is easy to forget. A good Wordle start word should have used a couple, but if they don't feature you might well want to try another one or two on your next go. Vowels obviously need consideration too: not all Wordle answers will contain more than one, but plenty do, and some even have three. Some options are far more common than others - for instance, SH, ST, CR and CH all feature frequently. Secondly, think about combinations, especially at the start and end. But clever people (not me) have done the math and identified the best start words based on both frequency in English and frequency among Wordle answers. Without one, you'll be scrabbling around in the dark trying (and possibly failing) to find the right five letters (or possibly fewer) out of the 26 possibles. I can't stress this enough - it makes a massive difference. The best tip I can give is to use one of the best Wordle start words. If you're looking for a list of older Wordle answers, we can also help. I typed it and celebrated a four-turn win. ![]() With that in mind, the answer was obvious: FLASK. Given 'S' could only sit in second or fourth place, and given it's one of the few remaining letters that could comfortably sit between 'A' and 'K', I started thinking along those lines. I played SHACK which not only turned the 'A' green at long last, but gave me another green letter in the form of 'K' and a yellow 'S' too. It wasn't looking great with 48 possible answers remaining.įortunately my next go was going to turn my luck on its head. I'd managed to rule out eight letters from the first two goes, and somehow only found one yellow. I tried AMPED as a way of doing that while trying 'A' in a new position and. I wanted to test 'E' as the most common letter next - especially with just the one vowel revealed. CLASP takes one more off, for six remaining answers. LEAST and SLATE leave eight answers apiece, while SLATE, SHALT and STALE trim that down to seven. Pretty much anything would have been better than that, and WordleBot has plenty of suggestions that leave a single-figure number of solutions. Today it was pretty dreadful, revealing just a yellow 'A' and leaving a massive 213 possible answers available. I began today's puzzle with RATIO, my pick of the best Wordle start words. Hopefully you did better to mark the occasion. Wordle #700 was your standard four-turn fare for me. I'm a relative latecomer to this, but still have memories of occasionally writing this column when we were in the high 400s. Reading this in a later time zone? The Wordle answer for game #700 was FLASK.ħ00 Wordle puzzles! If you've been here since day one, congratulations. I'll see you tomorrow to kick off another week of Wordles. ![]() But it wasn't - it was BRASH, so I got myself a speedy victory. It could have equally been BRAWL, BRAWN, BRASS or BRAVA. That was lucky - 88% lucky, according to WordleBot. Fortunately for me, the first one that came to mind - BRASH - was the right one, and I bagged myself a three-turn win. This had the knock-on effect of ruling out two more positions for my 'A', meaning the word had to be either BRA? or BR?A.Īccording to WordleBot, there were five possible answers remaining, all of which start BRA. Given I only had one vowel so far, I wanted to try 'E' - the most common letter in all of Wordle.Įven though it wasn't there, playing BREAD turned out to be an inspired move, as it turned the 'R' green and introduced another green letter in the form of 'B'.
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