![]() ![]() You can hear the radio blaring and kids laughing and the sunlight is washing through the kitchen window and catching all the dust motes and the smoke from your cigarette into a fiery swirl and it’s beautiful, sure, but all you can think about is how badly you wish that it would rain. Outside, on the street, somebody is playing music. You can picture yourself stepping down out of the boxcar in your swimsuit, sun umbrella in hand, strolling across the sand down to the waves. That one wreck you saw as a kid still comes back to haunt you now and then.ĭo people take the train to the beach, you wonder aloud to nobody in particular. What a silly thing to be afraid of-all the statistics say flying is safer than driving, right? Then again, you’re kind of afraid of driving, too. You’re sick of flying because you’ve always been afraid that the plane will crash but too embarrassed to tell anyone. Maybe a train isn’t that romantic, after all. Now all you can think about is Double Indemnity and North By Northwest. Every time they make a guess, they are told which letters in their guess are in the word and in the correct position (green. Or maybe it’s train because you’ve always wanted to travel that way, so much legroom and there’s something romantic about it. In Wordle, players have six tries to guess a target five-letter word. It’s lousy because that’s how you’re feeling, or noisy because the neighbors are fighting again, or alone because here you are on a Saturday night, sitting in the kitchen staring at the wall and drinking by yourself, wondering where all the years have gone, wondering if things will ever change. Or something you read the night before in a blog post, or overheard someone say on the way to work. It’s whatever word pops into your brain when you start the game each day. The best starting word for Wordle doesn’t exist. You could tally up all the five-letter words in this post and have great starting words for days. Here are ten of the best Wordle starting words: Salet. It’s more fun to think of new words every day, and the different combination and order of letters keeps things interesting. There are over 10,000 words the game will accept as guesses, so which one should you start with You can use the popular strategies of unique letters, common letters, or as many vowels as possible when you’re picking your words. I change my starting word every single time. More to the point, this must get tiresome after a while. Besides, a bad first guess can be useful, too, by eliminating possible letters. The first word and Second word are important. How much does guessing the ‘best’ word actually increase your odds? Considering there’s around 2,000 possible words right now, probably not much. If you want, you can also sign up for my diabolical newsletter on Substack and subscribe to my YouTube channel.I just think it’s kind of silly and pointless. You can follow me on Twitter and Facebook and support my work on Patreon. You can test out your own guesses with the Wordle Bot right here. Or you can read my alternative suggestions. In any case, if you’re looking for that perfect Wordle starting word now you know it. Take that Wordle Bot! In your face! Your adorable, robot face. My first guess, spare, was another ‘solid choice’ and the Wordle Bot couldn’t talk any crap after that since I guessed stair next and got the win. Guessing lymph would have eliminated more letters from the possible solution list.įor Wordle #294, I did much better, well above the average guesser since I got it in just two (!!) guesses. If I’d played in normal mode the Wordle Bot would have been a bit harsher on my third guess, shale. The World Bot then shows me its guesses: Dealt, Since, Mince. This is pretty good, but guessing SINGE here eliminates more solutions than BOWIE 79 percent of the time.” “Your guess cut the number of remaining solutions to 18. My next guess was met with a bit of finger-wagging, however. “On average,” the bot tells me, “someone who guesses FRIED will cut the 2,309 possible solutions to just 155.” The Wordle Bot said my first guess was a ‘solid choice.’ So, for yesterday’s word which was-SPOILER!- mince, I can see just how I compared to the average New York Times guesser. In hard mode, the best starting word is dealt rather than crane. This is because Wordle Bot uses different starting words for each mode. That’s the case here and the Wordle Bot analyzes guesses differently for regular and hard mode. Note: I sometimes play in ‘hard mode’ which requires you to always use the letters you’ve guessed successfully. The Wordle-Bot is a fun, if mildly hostile and intimidating, little fella who you can use to analyze your guesses and tell you where you could have done better.
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