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To maximize the value of your opening gambit, choose a word with three vowels and five different letters. For everyone else who's sick of seeing gray boxes, here are some tips that you may find helpful.Ĭhoosing your first word: The first word is arguably the most important. If you're a word game purist, you may want to avoid the following tips and rely entirely on your own instincts. Simple stuff, but also incredibly compelling. Or you can try for performance and guess the word of the day in three, two or even one go. Then you get one chance to put those hints to use. You can enter a total of six words, meaning you can enter five burner words from which you can learn hints about the letters and their placements. A letter that isn't in the word in any spot shows up gray.

A correct letter in the wrong spot shows up yellow. As shown above, if you have the right letter in the right spot, it shows up green. Wordle gives players six chances to guess a randomly selected five-letter word. The site itself does a fantastic job of explaining the rules: Every 24 hours there's a new word of the day, and it's up to you to figure out what it is.

It's fun, simple and, like a crossword, can only be played once a day. Wordle is a daily word game you can find online here. But in case you want some info on its origins, here's everything you need to know. What's Wordle? Surely by now you're at least vaguely aware of the viral word game taking over our planet.
