4 words to win Wordle in less than a minute every day.



1 MINUTE SUMMARY

Currently Wordle is the internet’s hottest game with a whole bunch of site recommending different strategies.

Here’s my strategy to win within a minute.

Put the words

BRAKE
DYING
CLOTS

In any order and u should get enough hints to solve the Wordle.

If you still can’t figure out by the 3rd word add the final word

WHUMP

The final word guarantees at least 1 perfectly matched 🟩 or 2 🟨 🟨

THE METHOD (How it works)

Maths & algorithms!

Instead of humanly trying to brainstorm the next sequence of letters that fit. This method throws 5/10/15/20 characters that does not reoccur in the previous words and the characters are optimally placed where they occur 🟩 the most, eg (E, G, S are usually word enders, A,I,O are mid word).

Q & U are least used and logically goes together so u don’t need to “use” them to know when u need them.

The 4th word (WHUMP) is one of 2 words (of 12400+ 5 letter words) that does not “hit” any of the words above and thus useful as a final hint buster.

THE MATH!

Data driven approach to finding the best words.

I’ve pull 12400+ scrabble legal 5 letter words and used the formula i devised, in google sheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Q0ob53yhwHYEJA8NgMjpL7ke9_jdMuYMmP4LQJ-YD7g/edit#gid=0&fvid=1872802129

We need some metrics to determine which words scores the best.

So setting up the point system of X / 100

🟩 = 20 points
🟨 = 10 points
⬜️ = 0 points

Next build out scoring for every single word.

And next, create a pivot table to see how many words fall in each group.

With the 4 word combo 106 words can be found instantly, more than 50% of words have 60 or more score
(ie 🟩. 🟩. 🟩 or 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟨 or 🟩. 🟨 🟨 🟨 🟨 )

As a final tweaker 3 more metrics to tune the words, the higher the “Total scores” the more words get easier to guess.

BRAKE + DYING + CLOTS + WHUMP
Changing BRAKE to BRAVE (+ DYING + CLOT + WHUMP) leads to a 11000 point drop
Even changing swapping BRAKE to BREAK resulted in a 10000 point drop 😅 that’s how important having E at the end of the word means.

FINAL THOUGHTS

The game is great fun and with some strategy it’s possible to win it most of the time without using much brain power and in a minute.

You can also generate your 4 unique words by copying the google sheet and playing with the 5 letter words, comment if you can find something to beat my Total score (currently 719550).

5 Comments Say Something
  • this didn’t work today, 1/24. So hard!! 🙁

  • Such a cool analysis of a really fun game. Love the excel tool that you built.
    I found a set of four words that scored 748,360 – but has repeat letters strangely enough:

    ADIEU
    SNORT
    CLAMP
    BOUGH

    Awesome work again!

  • Actually, now just realizing that the repeated letters are giving additional score that shouldn’t count.

  • Nice research here! This was tough to beat, but I found a set of four words that beats yours in both of our scoring systems, whether you’re playing the first three words or all four.

    CAGEY
    BORDS
    FLINT
    WHUMP

    I’ve been crushing Dordle consistently with this. For the normal game, a three word set is enough.

    CRONY
    SHALT
    GUIDE

  • By the way, I found an even better four word set and I started using it in Wordle Archive races and Quordle.
    COMET
    FLASH
    BRINK
    PUDGY
    It scores a little lower in your scoring system than the other set I posted, but trust me, it finds more clues.

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