4 Wordle Strategies That Will Help You Play Faster and Better

Is Wordle mostly a guessing game? Not if you use these four strategies to zero in on the answer and thus (almost) eliminate the guesswork!

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[Note: I first published this on May 5, 2022, on my old website, SharonOutlawHillam.com, and have used these four strategies every day since then. Why? Because I have yet to find a better way to play Wordle. Enjoy the article!]

From one Wordler to another, how’s your game? Are you mostly guessing your way through the process, hoping (and praying) you can solve the puzzle before you run out of your six guesses?

Or maybe you are playing reasonably well but wouldn’t mind picking up a few tips that would help you play better.

If so, then this post is for YOU because I’m going to share four strategies that will help you play faster and better. The key? Choose words so that every letter maximizes the information that you then use to discover — not guess — the Wordle word of the day.

Sound good? Then let’s get started.

Strategy #1: Use Starter Words Based on Letter Frequency