# "Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 2)

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**Created:** [March 25, 2023, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659 "2023-03-25T23:59:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-2/981659/5227 "2024-01-09T15:27:27Z")

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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> I just _started_ to do Wordle, so that today’s was only the fourth one I’ve done. So I’m still figuring this out. The first question is what word to start with, so I’ve been using the previous day’s solution for today’s first guess. So final let me to liner in one step. Anyone have a suggestion for how to begin?

Welcome to the game @ **Dewey\_Finn**. You’ve hit on _ **the** _ key question with the game. There are many discussions about that in the first Wordle thread, when most of us started playing after @Briny_Deep brought it to our attention.

> [@"Wordle," a strangely compelling word game (Part 1)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wordle-a-strangely-compelling-word-game-part-1/956604):
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> Guess a five-letter word in six tries. Letters in your guess are colored yellow if they’re in the word, green if they’re in the right place in the word, and gray if they’re not in the word. There’s only one puzzle per day, and it’s the same puzzle for everybody. [https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/](https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/)

Extensive discussions there about how to start. It might be best to point you to that instead of rehashing it all again. That thread reached its limit of 10,000 posts and then the system created this one. There is some discussion here about what you ask too, but most of it is in that first thread when we all were trying to figure it out.

Many of us had good suggestions and strategies but to me one guy was especially helpful and that was @EllisDee .

So I suggest you find his posts in that first thread.

Good luck and welcome to the game!

HTH,  
@Bullitt

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