TechSoftwareAppsTop 3 Wordle answer strategies to win fast – and 1 to avoidBecause winning Wordle isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechSoftwareAppsTop 3 Wordle answer strategies to win fast – and 1 to avoidBecause winning Wordle isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Because winning Wordle isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
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How to win at Wordle: start strong
How to win at Wordle: stay strong
You’ve started with a good strong word. Hopefully that’s helped uncover part of the answer already. Now, you want to use another strong word but this time it should be as different as possible from the first one. That’s because we’re playing an elimination game here, so you don’t want to use letters you already know aren’t in the answer.
To stick with our own examples here, if we start with ALIEN we then use SHOUT, and vice-versa. That way we cover all the vowels and some of the most common consonants too.
How to win at Wordle: be patient
If you get a match with your first word, it’s tempting to take a guess with the second – but the likelihood of getting it right is very, very low. Don’t guess until you’ve deployed your second strong word: for example, if we’d used our ALIEN and SHOUT options on today’s puzzle we’d know that H was in the right place and I, E and T were there but in other spots. That made the answer pretty clear.
How not to win at Wordle: use weird words
As much as ZEXES will annoy people in a game of Scrabble (it’s the plural of Zex, a tool for cutting roof tiles), it’s a terrible one for Wordle. It’s terrible because as a guess it only contains a single vowel and two of its consonants are relatively uncommon. And it’s terrible because Wordle doesn’t use obscure words. I’ve just gone through the last three months of answers and there’s not a single obscure word among them. That’s part of its charm.
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