So, If you guess those 3 words first, you’ll have the best chance of finding all the letters in the actual word. Then, I grepped the words list to find words made only of these letters to see if I could find 3 words that together used up all those letters.

So, the most-popular 15 letters in 5-letter words are “searoiltcdhmnpu”. I decided to rank the combinations by a score calculated by: 3 x (words with all 5 letters made up from these letters) Linux has a file of words, so I grepped that file to find 5-letter words made up of only those letters: $ egrep '^' 5-letter-words | wc -l I knew the word was made up of “qahjlzxvbn”. Now, as a programmer, I thought “how can I use ‘grep’ to solve this?” The keyboard in Wordle shows the letters that you’ve guessed, so you can see what the possible letters are. I knew that the word looked like “_ _ _ al” and included an “n” that wasn’t in the second position. In my first attempt I got down to my last guess. There’s a single new puzzle every day.Īfter several days of seeing those posts, I finally decided to Google it and play it myself. After each guess, it shows you which letters are in the word and in the right place in your guess (in green), which ones are in the word but not in the right place (yellow), and which ones aren’t in the word at all (gray).

It’s for the word game called “ Wordle” where you need to guess a 5-letter word. In the last week or so, I started seeing posts like this on Twitter: That will get you at least 3 of the 5 letters 80% of the time. If you want to guess a third, use “chump”. TL DR - Guess “trade” and “lions” for the first two words. If you're not a 'Never tell me the odds!' type of person, read on to see the most-efficient way of solving Wordle puzzles.

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