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. * These were: ENDED, KNEED, QUEEN, UNWED, HYMEN, UNFED and NUKED. Hopefully today's puzzle didn't trip you up. I typed in QUEEN and won the game in four moves. I never consider 'Q' until I'm forced to, but as soon as I thought about it, the answer became obvious. Only one possibility was left, but it took me a while to spot it. With that in mind, I tried UNWED and made signficant progress as 'N' was ruled out in a second position and 'U' turned yellow.

I couldn't see an easy way to do so, until I considered the word could begin UN. My hunch was that there was a double 'E', but I wanted to play a 'U' first to rule out my final vowel. Just seven answers were in play* according to WordleBot. That meant that LINES was a good bet, and it proved very effective, turning my 'E' green and revealing a yellow 'N'. The five biggies I wanted to target were 'L', 'I', 'S', 'N' and 'C'. I wanted to find a word that tested 'E' in a new position, while introducing as many of the next most popular letters as possible. LEARN was as good as I found, leaving just 16 possible solutions. TRAIN was quite effective, leaving 29 possible answers, though, as was TALON on 26. Today it was poor, revealing a single 'E' and leaving me with 191 possible answers still in play.īut the presence of a double letter and a 'Q' meant that few of WordleBot's best Wordle start words were that much better. I began with ORATE, my usual favorite opener on account of it containing all five of the most common Wordle letters.

The combination of a double letter and the presence of 'Q' (the second rarest letter in the game) meant that the puzzle took me a while to complete in minutes, even if I finished in a respectable four turns. This one gave me a few problems, I must admit. Reading this in a later time zone? The Wordle answer for game #887 was QUEEN. Hopefully you made light work of today's puzzle, Wordlers. Kind of lucky, as WordleBot points out it could equally have been THROB. I typed in THROW to win the game in three moves. It turned 'T' and 'R' green, as well as revealing a yellow 'H' and proving that 'O' had to sit in fourth or fifth position. But with three characters already confirmed, I was happy to get just one, which I did with TORCH. Normally on my second go, I'd look to play as many of the next most common letters - 'L', 'I', 'S', 'N' and 'C' - as possible.

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