How To Win At Wordle Every Time

David Kwong, New York Times Crossword Constructor, instructs us on how to win at Wordle - the viral word puzzle that has been taking the internet (and Twitter) by storm.

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What's your go-to starting word? 👀

[davidalearmonth]

I like to play it safe and start every day with the word Entry, typically followed by Audio to get all the vowels. I find that starting with Entry gets me that occasional critical letter y and tells me whether it's at the end of the word or not which is really important. After that if I'm searching for more consonants I will often go with champ, chimp, chomp, or chump, depending on which vowel I have in the word. Or maybe Flesh for the letter e.

[susiehopper]

I prefer to start with a different word every day - and usually it's just the first thing that pops into my head. Of course, that means I don't win every day, but it's fun to mix things up.

[Iluvbillkaulitz]

I start with Adieu and Story first, gets rid of the vowels, and the str letters too!

[nitwitbit]

I love that many books in the background were green (plus the vase? mug? on the table), as was the Nirvana shirt.

[markwilson]

My starting word is typically “stone”. It only uses 2 vowels, but all 5 letters are within the 8 most common letters used, and I almost always get some information from that word to make educated guesses that normally gets me to the actual word within 4 guesses.

[elenas]

Alternatively: look up the secret word ahead of time and brag online about how you got it “first try!!”

[davidreichert]

I like to emphasize consonants over vowels. It's much easier to determine a word from its consonants over its vowels.

[valef]

My secret to keeping a streak of one word guesses is playing it first in an incognito tab. After getting the correct word, I then encode it on my tab that keeps my data

[swifty]

If you do, fjord, waltz, nymph, gybes, quick then you get all letter gone except x and v or double letters

[magiccarrot]

My first 3 words are Aired, Ghoul and Scamp, whilst it covers one less letter than your three words it covers all the vowels and only the a is double with it being a vowel it is in a lot of words anyway so gives me two chances of finding it's placement

[RealRyanMcLeod]

I have more 4 guess finishes than all other rankings combined. I got there by using my first three guesses to use as many consonants as possible. once you've cleared the board of those, there are generally simple rules you can follow to figure out which vowel and where it goes. getting the vowels first is novice at best... because every word has vowels. It's the instantly known factor.

[FidgetMDCCLXIV]

My top starters (I always eliminate C and common vowels and consonants. I also avoid using U on the first try, hence no CRUST):

CRANE, CREST, CRATE, TRACE, TRICE, CARTS, REACT, CRIES, COAST, ASCOT, SCORE, CASTE, SCARE, SCENT, SCALE, ENACT, ACTOR, CLEAR, CLONE

[SueMoseley]

I start with audio, followed by tiers if I think there might be an 'e' in there. Getting the vowels sorted first helps me.

[rheffner]

Irate is my main starting word. Today it allowed me to get it in 2. Pretty pretty good.

[RosanneCooke]

I got the word on my first try last week. I really enjoy playing so I was bummed it was over so fast. 😂

[catakuri]

i once guessed the word "THING" and it was all in yellow!


i then realized that the answer is NIGHT

[fractalinfect]

I thought I was something special with a 3.74 average, but then found out that Sweden is the world leader with an average of 3.71. (The US trails far behind with 3.9 something). So I started to focus and got it down to 3.59. My goal is to get to 3.5. Love this game. I used to start with Heart but then discovered that WordleBot solves most quickly using the starting word Crane. So I switched.

[brazenzebra]

Brag about a consecutive 5 game total score rather than a single game score: A+=15-16, A=17-19, B=20-22, C=23-25, D=26-30, F=<15 because that is cheating!! If you restart your phone or computer, you can play the same game with the same word and "guess" in one try. My favorite start words are suite and audio.

[shanek]

Great video! Very likable host as well.