Everything You Need to Know About Wordle

Wordle! It's a game you've heard of. It's a game you've probably played at some point. However, despite the relatively simple nature of the game, there are most certainly ways you can guarantee wins and flex on your peers. Or something.

"Wordle is a web-based word game created and developed by Welsh software engineer Josh Wardle. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word, with feedback given for each guess in the form of colored tiles indicating when letters match or occupy the correct position. The mechanics are similar to the 1955 pen-and-paper game Jotto and the television game show franchise Lingo. Wordle has a single daily solution, with all players attempting to guess the same word."

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How to Play

Strategies

List of Valid Guesses

List of Valid Answers

List of Past Words

Wardle's Original List of Words

If you're truly stumped, you can google the solution — many journalism sites keep a daily post schedule containing the day's word. This guide aims to cover various strategies I have developed for the game and multiple lists to be used as a reference for those strategies. Each header below can be clicked to expand its corresponding section.

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This guide was written by Jordon Olson, also known as Humanish and formerly known as Definitelyhuman. If there are any issues with this guide or any strategies you would like me to add, you may contact me at definitelyhumangamer@gmail.com. Kudos goes to Haroon Subhani (@888_bl00dsh0t) for the copyright tidbit below. I'd like to thank GitHub users dracos and scholtes as well as Marc McLaren and Owen Yin for their handy-dandy word lists used in the guide.

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