The best Wordle opener is ORATE

And here’s why

Like the rest of the world, it seems, I’ve become obsessed with Wordle.

If you’re among the lucky few who haven’t yet succumbed to its addictive wiles, Wordle’s basically what you’d expect if Mastermind and Boggle had a baby.

Once a day, Josh, the Brooklyn-based mastermind behind Wordle, presents the world with a blank slate that looks like this:

The horror of the empty page