Having only six guesses is the main limitation in the word game taking the world by storm, Wordle. This simple word game tasks players with guessing that day's word, having six attempts. After each attempt, the game will alert players if any of the letters in the guess are in that day's solution and if those letters are in the correct position. Armed with just this explanation of the game, Wordle players can jump right into guessing today's word.
Wordle is a quick daily game with basic rules and a new word to solve every day. Players looking to increase the game's difficulty have the opportunity to with the Hard Mode setting. This setting changes the game's rules to make this daily challenge a little bit more complicated: players must utilize all clues in each subsequent guess. This means players cannot use dummy guesses designed to fish for more letters, and must instead attempt to correctly guess the word with each attempt.
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When attempting the puzzle with this new rule set, the best words to use in Wordle will depend on what stage you are in the game. Different players have different strategies, but the best trick under these limited rules is to eliminate possibilities. After determining the vowels in play, players can create guesses designed to rule out common consonant clusters. By eliminating the common components of consonant clusters, like p, r, and l, players can eliminate a lot of possible words quickly. In addition, when players have multiple possible words they are deciding between, using the word with the greatest number of common letters between these possibilities optimizes the decisions for subsequent guesses.
Enabling Hard Mode
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