"For a long period during the height of the NYT Games craze of 2020, new Wordle strategies appeared on the timeline like clockwork. But in the years since, players have honed their personal strategies in ways that have made keeping up with daily streaks a piece of cake. That doesn't mean there's not more to mine from the game. This week, social media users came across an apparently foolproof way to whittle away at incorrect letters and make use of those anagram skills."
"[Note: That last word is defined by Oxford Languages on Google as "twisted silk, worsted, or cotton with cord or wire running through it, used chiefly as upholstery trimming." But it's also listed as a potential derivative of a derogatory phrase. While it's a high-value Words With Friends entry, it's not valid in the Merriam Webster Scrabble dictionary. It may work for the dictionary's dupe Quordle, though.]"
"The strategy makes use of 25 unique letters in the game's first five rounds, only missing the ornery letter Q, giving users just one slot to guess the winning word. But according to the alphabet math and players who use the strategy, it's nearly impossible not to spot the word among the grey tiles. There's still a bit of brainwork needed, of course, like parsing letter groups that have multiple anagrams. It's not going to always help if you don't kno"
Players refined Wordle techniques after the 2020 NYT Games surge, creating reliable approaches for daily streaks. Social users promoted a five-word starter set — CHUNK, FJORD, VIBEX, WALTZ, and GYMPS — that collectively test 25 different letters and typically leaves only Q untried. The set often reduces remaining possibilities to a single slot and makes the answer apparent among grey tiles. GYMPS has mixed dictionary recognition and potential derogatory derivations. The method still requires parsing anagram-heavy letter groups and some mental effort to resolve multiple possible arrangements.
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