Strategy for solving Wordle Puzzle

Over the last year and a half, wordle, a game now owned by the NY Times, has captured a sizeable audience in the English speaking part of the world. There are now variations that have cropped up in other languages as well as more complicated forms of the same puzzle such as Quordle where enigmatologists of all varieties can put their skills to the test.

The game’s popularity is owed to the simplicity of the game where the game runners (now someone at NY Times presumably) chooses a word every day and makes it available at midnight local time wherever the player maybe located in the world. Game is mobile friendly (can be played on the browser, there is no app for it to my knowledge) and has no annoying ads lurking about to bother or distract you.

Don’t pay attention to weighty pronouncements from detractors who claim that there are tens of thousands of 5 letter words in the dictionary and that this is merely a shot in the dark. The first of the six tries may have a remote chance but the game does provide you with feedback in response to each try. Players can use that feedback to put forth subsequent attempts from a whittled down list of words. Even if the first try does not reveal a letter in the eventual answer, it helps eliminate letters and gets the player going on a possible hunt for words without the letters s/he tried first.

Here are some simple pointers for people looking to get the momentary thrill of guessing the right word with as few tries as possible: