NYT Wordle is nearly impossible to lose if you use these 5 words

For a long time, at the height of the NYT Games craze in 2020, new Wordle strategies appeared on the timeline like clockwork. But in the years since, players have refined their personal strategies in ways that make keeping up with daily streaks a breeze.

That’s not to say there’s nothing left to be gained from the game. This week, social media users discovered a seemingly foolproof way to remove incorrect letters and put their anagram skills to use.

According to a viral post The post has already accumulated 22,000 favorites.

[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.]

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The strategy uses 25 unique letters in the first five rounds of the game, missing only the letter Q, giving users only one slot to guess the winning word. But according to the math of the alphabet and the players who use this strategy, it’s almost impossible not to spot the word among the gray tiles.

Of course, it still takes a little thinking, like analyzing groups of letters that have multiple anagrams. This won’t always be helpful if you don’t know the word to begin with, because that’s how Wordle works. And, as many social media users argued in the article’s quotes, maybe it’s pointless trying to “hack” the game in the name of a higher score.

But if you’re already a really good Wordler — and especially if it’s a week like “MYRRH” — this is definitely a tip worth trying.

Not the day you are looking for? Here is the solution to today’s Wordle.