Some options are far more common than others - for instance, SH, ST, CR and CH all feature frequently. Secondly, think about combinations, especially at the start and end. But clever people (not me) have done the math and identified the best start words based on both frequency in English and frequency among Wordle answers. Without one, you'll be scrabbling around in the dark trying (and possibly failing) to find the right five letters (or possibly fewer) out of the 26 possibles. I can't stress this enough - it makes a massive difference. The best tip I can give is to use one of the best Wordle start words. If you're looking for a list of older Wordle answers, we can also help. I'll be back tomorrow with the Easter Sunday puzzle. Interesting that only two of them contained a single 'E' - and one contained three. Bit of a lucky break - indeed WordleBot gave me a 95% luck score for my troubles.įor completion's sake, the 12 other possible answers were JEWEL, BEVEL, CELEB, BEZEL, EXCEL, EXPEL, LEVEE, LEVEL, DELVE, BELCH, MELEE and LEGGY. Eventually, I played LEDGE and all the letters turned green. It left 13 possible answers, according to WordleBot, which was a bit of a surprise, as it took me quite a while to find any with my two yellow letters. "FUELS would have been one of my top picks." While some disagree with playing very unlikely words, WordleBot liked this strategy. 'E' is the most common letter in all of Wordle, while 'L' is the sixth most frequently used and 'U' comes in at number 11. I did that with FUELS, which as a plural wasn't ever going to be the answer but would test some common letters. With no letters uncovered, I needed to test my two remaining vowels quickly. ![]() Both LEAST and LEANT with their two green starting letters would leave only ten possible answers. There were some good'uns, though: PLATE would leave 30 and SLATE 26. The only consolation was that most of WordleBot's picks also left a three-figure number of possible solutions. With each of the letters turning gray, 273 answers remained possible from the limited data gleaned via my opening move. In fact, my pick of the best Wordle start words - RATIO - turned up nothing today. Another tricky puzzle to start the Easter weekend - and for the third day in a row, today's Wordle started with a 'L'. Reading this in a later time zone? The Wordle answer for game #658 was LEDGE Yesterday's Wordle answer #658, Saturday, April 8 Have a great Easter, Wordlers, and I'll see you tomorrow. Hopefully this devious little number didn't trip you up. Suffice it to say, nobody expects a Wordle answer to end in 'U' - indeed, according to our research, this is the only example of it happening. With hindsight, I should have eliminated all the vowels earlier on, but 'U' is by far the least common in the Wordle alphabet, and I couldn't think of a way of including it with the letters I'd eliminated. I stared at it in utter confusion for at least five minutes, typing various letters and then quickly deleting them. At this point, I knew the mystery word had to be either SNA? or S?A?N. It did, however, take me ages to see what the answer could be. Apparently it narrowed it down to just one answer, having eliminated SNAKY and SWANG. I tried SWANK next, which WordleBot praised as "exactly what I would've picked in this situation". Still, four possible solutions and three turns means that I was well on the way to being home and dry. I tried CHASM next, which WordleBot called "a bit unlucky" as it still left four possible answers. On the bright side, eliminating all these characters was slowly bringing down the number of possible answers, and now just 30 remained. Once again, the 'A' went yellow, and no other letters were revealed. I moved the 'A' along and introduced another vowel by playing PLEAD. SLATE leaves 30 solutions, LEAST 28 and SLANT just nine. While I got no letters at all from it then, today it did at least turn the 'A' yellow, leaving 213 possible solutions to the puzzle.Īll of WordleBot's top suggestions left fewer than 100 possible answers, so it was definitely a dud of a start. I began with my pick of the best Wordle start words - RATIO, which turned out to be only slightly less useless than it was yesterday. Indeed, I was stuck staring at my remaining letters in utter confusion as I went into my fifth and (as it turned out) final turn.īut I'm getting ahead of myself. Happy Easter, Wordlers! Today's puzzle is a real brain teaser to distract from the relentless chocolate. ![]() ![]() So, what is today's Wordle answer for game #659?
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