My Wordle Strategy

Today’s topic is something literally no one cares about.  Not so long ago, many people –myself included– would share their Wordle scores on social media, and derive something resembling social capital and boasting rights from a quick completion.

But no one cares anymore. Personally, I’ve moved on to “Connections” as my preferred morning mental challenge. But I still do the Wordle as a reflexive bit of warm-up labour. And I no longer care whether I get it in 2, 3, 4, or 5 guesses. I just want to get it done and move on to another game.

I’ve developed a strategy that almost always results in a correct result in exactly four guesses. And I’m going to share that strategy with you today.

Guess #1: CRANE

Guess #2: TOUGH

Guess #3: SPIKY

That’s it. Those three guesses cover all the vowels and all the statistically most used consonants. So after three guesses, you’re in a terrific position to solve the puzzle on the fourth step.

Here are some examples:

Now, I said almost. One time it did take me five guesses:

And occasionally I will take a stab at a solution in 3:

And even more rarely, I’ll go old school:

So that’s today’s post. Total waste of time, right?