The puzzle promises that there is always one pangram -- a word using all seven of the provided letters. Just knowing that word is out there sometimes pushes me to see the options. I'll keep rearranging the letters to see if I'm inspired to find that magical word. Not that it could be longer than seven letters, if you reuse a letter or two. And once you have it, check to see if there are smaller words (minimum of four letters though) hidden inside that long word.
Oof, that diabolical center letter. It has to be in every word you make, and many times I've thought I had a great answer, only to have my word rejected because I forgot the center letter. If you have a word rejected for this reason, consider if that word can be used in a compound word that might include the center letter.
Every day, a five-letter word is chosen which players aim to guess within six tries.[1] After every guess, each letter is marked as either green, yellow or gray: green indicates that letter is correct and in the correct position, yellow means it is in the answer but not in the right position, while gray indicates it is not in the answer at all.[2] Multiple instances of the same letter in a guess, such as the "o"s in "robot", will be colored green or yellow only if the letter also appears multiple times in the answer; otherwise, excess repeating letters will be colored gray.[3] The game has a "hard mode" option, which requires players to include letters marked as green and yellow in subsequent guesses.[4] The daily word is the same for everyone.[5] The game also has a dark theme as well as a high-contrast theme for colorblind accessibility, which changes the color scheme from green and yellow to orange and blue.[4][6]
Separately, an entirely different game called Wordle! by Steven Cravotta, which had been released on the App Store five years prior to Wardle's Wordle, saw a boost in downloads and purchases from people who thought it was Wardle's game; according to Cravotta, between January 5 and 12, 2022, his game was downloaded over 200,000 times.[35][36] Cravotta was glad to see his game's resurgence, though recognized purchasers were likely buying it thinking it was Wardle's Wordle. In collaboration with Wardle, he donated $50,000 from revenues to Boost in Oakland, California, a charity providing tutoring to Oakland schoolchildren.[37][38]
I use irony and sauce (or cause ) as openers. This gets the 5 vowels out of the way, confirms or infirms plurals. This often leads to 2 to 4 correct letters, and on two occasions wordle in one. Your accusations of cheating reflect only your inability to adhere rigourously to a tactic. Furthermore, you give up after 5 attempts to keep your your win percentage high. I bet your best winning streak is 20 or lower. There is no glory in withdrawing. True Wordle players accept defeat.
Sorry, I am here to say I got wordle 3x in one try and I did NOT cheat. The first time I was using the same starter word over and over again, and it finally hit: TRAIN. The second time, I was feeling lazy, and I typed SLOTH, it happened to be the right word. That was me winning the wordle lottery. The 3rd time, Thanksgiving was around the corner, and all I could think about was food, so I typed in FEAST, and bam, I got it. Crazy, but all true.
But my thoughts are, that if you playing the damn game daily, you are at least learning something. And if your scores are mostly 4s, sometimes 5s, with a decent smattering of 3s and any occasional improvement higher (without cheating), you are alright in my book, and a mostly decent addition to our evolutionary food chain.
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