What do you learn from winning 500 games of Wordle?
I escaped with a 5/6 for JOKER, for instance, the jointon the final guess to decide between PARER, PAYER and PAVER. And I solved the likes of WATCH and FOYER and GAWKY and CACAO and FLUFF and CAULK and TACIT and all the other Wordles that people failed on. And I never used anyAs I said, I'm not a genius - so how did I do it? Well, here's what I've learned from winning 500 straight games of Wordle.
For instance: -ATCH words. There are more than six of these: WATCH, PATCH, HATCH, LATCH, CATCH, BATCH and MATCH. Guessing one after the other is not smart play. You might escape with a 3/6 or 4/6 - but you might also fail. Guessing CLAMP, though, will rule out four possible answers in one go. Even if it's not right, you'll have only three left to choose from and your streak will be safe.
It all comes down to statistics. There are only so many ways the 26 letters of the alphabet can be organized into words, and there are only so many of those words in Wordle. Certain letters - for instance A, E, R, O and T - are more common in Wordle than others. Some are very common at the start. Still others are very common at the end.
ADIEU is fine, it's very helpful on some days and somewhat helpful on most. But if you've accepted that a constant start word is a good idea, why not use one of the best ones rather than an also-ran?It can be really tempting to start shooting for the answer on the second guess - but don't. Well, not unless you can see there are not many answers left and your odds are good. Sure, you might get a 2/6 with an inspired guess, but more likely you'll end up with a 4/6 or worse.
But I do remember quite a lot of them, probably because I've been writing this column for either TechRadar or our sister site Tom's Guide during most of those 500 games. I couldn't say what the answer was on a given day, but I can tell you that FOYER has definitely been an answer, and so has TIGER, and SLATE, and BAYOU, and a few dozen more.
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