I found the list of wordle solution words and counted the occurrence of each letter of the alphabet. I use a list of the letters sorted by frequency (I got "EAROTILSNUCYHDPGMBFKWVXZQJ") to pick sets of words that use the most common letters with little or no overlap. The 15 most commonly used letters are "EAROTILSNUCYHDP", so I built a set of triplets of words that contain all those letters with no overlap, and tend to use 3 instead of 4 words. "CORAL PINEY THUDS", "LATER NOISY CHUMP", "HORNY TESLA CUPID" and "ENTRY CUPID HALOS" are among my favorites for they humor value
I like your strategy alot. I personally use the words Tubes, Fling, Champ, and Wordy in that order to give 20 unique letters, your has 19 unique letters with the U repeating twice in fudgy and plumb
For practice mode I use WACKY, DOUGH, STERN, BLIMP. It knocks out 20 letters and the only 'common-ish' letter it skips is F, along with the usually-unused QJXZV. I have done 100s of words this way, solving every time and I think only once did I have a "coin flip" ending. Doing practice gets you familiar with the word list and you will eventually 'see' the more unusual words. For the daily, I like CRATE, DOUGH, BLIMP. I have hit a 5 and two 6's this way and frequently solve in 7. It is a bit harder this way. Sometimes you need to add in a 4th word like SWANK. This way does initially leave out S and N, but in a way that I feel you usually can 'tell' if a word had them or not.
5 letters 3 word set with 4th if you need it: ADIEU, COMFY & then BLUNT/BLENT or GRAPH If you've been really unlucky and you need a fourth word with this set; use them both ;-) (8 not used): JKQSVWXZ left over because two vowels were reused; however they are in new positions to evaluate. If you don't like comfy-- use SOFTY or COWLS - depending on what consonants you want to use or leave out. I use a three-word set because it gives me one more extra guess for evaluation, (when there are repeated letters, that can be necessary):
I just found out about Quordle. My three words are DARES, POUTY, CLINK. This gives me all vowels (including Y) and most of the more common consonants. It's very rare that I can't solve it in 8.
I use STEAL, BROWN, PUDGY and HICKS. RSTLNE are most common and are covered in the first 2 words. For the first word I randomly alternate STEAL, STALE, LEAST and TALES. I've done thousands of puzzles in infinite wordle and these have worked for me the vast majority of the time.
This is generally my strategy, but these four words aren't optimal since you've doubled up on the letter U. I like to start with FIGHT/LANCE/SWORD (especially because of the theme) and try solving from there; if I get stuck, I'll guess BUMPY (or sometimes JUMPY) to round things out. I like these four in particular (in that order) because all of the letters in the fourth word are relatively rarer than anything in the first three (save for W in SWORD) so it's more likely to allow for solving in 7 guesses instead of 8 if you get lucky with what the four solutions are.
Excellent point! We've had some great discussion on optimizing the strategy in the weeks since this video went live! This is a great strategy in the sense it's optimized to make 7 guess solves more likely! I like it!
I was struggling with Quordle till I came across your video. It worked great thank you, Doug. Now I am going to try the other combinations given in the comments below and see which works best.
What I dont like about this method is that part of the fun for me is attempting to solve it in as few guesses as possible meaning you can never get a 2, 3 or 4.
Same strategy but i cover 20 letters with two vowels in the first: JOINS, TRACK, HEDGY, PLUMB....if i'm stuck and can afford a 5th guess later on WAFER gives W&F plus two vowel placements.
Very well done. Thank you. Also? Dang you to heck! ;) I had given up on Quordle, but a friend wanted to challenge me. This strategy and another in your comments work so well that the game is not even very challenging anymore. I'm just explaining the "dang you to heck" comment. I didn't have to watch your video! :) Now All that remains is to look for other four-word combos with more unique letters, and I don't think there's much to be found in that. So all kidding aside, i take off my hypothetical hat to you!
Thank you! We did get to the point with our daily Quordle video where this strategy just wasn't a lot of fun anymore. This week, we are doing a challenge where I open with two words - one intentionally difficult word from my "hard starting word challenge" series, and one word from a previous episode of my daily wordle series. Expect these episodes to be considerably more interesting!
I like the challenge, so I stick to my single Wordle strategy with two starter words containing the top ten most used letters. Always get the first word in three . Then I rearrange yellows with the greens and leftover possible tiles . Other times I combine and rearrange the yellows from different grids to make a word that often yields results. The odd words like RAJAH get me as its usually spelled RAJA as in 'king' in Hindi, a popular name for male pets. Solved a few words I seem to have worked out without even knowing their meaning! Lol BEVEL DEMUR SQUIB SWAMI etc u
As mentioned, if you sort the alphabet based on the occurrence of each letter in Wordle solutions, you get "EAROTILSNUCYHDPGMBFKWVXZQJ" Your set of 4 words, "CANOE SKIRT PLUMB FUDGY" uses 19 of the 20 most common letters, with only 1 duplicate, "U". The remaining untested letters are "____________H_______WVXZQJ". You've chosen a really good set of words.
Nice video! I'm playing the french version and my goal is to solve it in 6 letters. My strategy adapted to this goal is to start with the words "taies" and "luron", which contain the 10 most frequent letters in 5-letters words in french. From there, well, anything goes!
these 'four word' strategies aren't great because of what you showed in the video- it's far too easy to get to the very end and get your last word on the very last guess, leaving you no real margin for error. far better to find a good 'three word' strategy- for example, I use "arose", "chump" and "flint" and I almost always solve the daily quordle with two spare guesses.
This is not a method for guaranteed success. After the four words are entered, there can be as many as four possible answers in each of the quarters; only by luck can you tell which of the 256 possible sets of hidden words you are facing that day. What will you do when the hidden words are (haunt or jaunt or taunt or vaunt) and (bobby or booby or boozy or hobby) and (other or otter or outer or voter) and (sever or sewer or sheer or shrew)? A better four-word strategy is CARVE + SIGHT + DOWNY + PLUMB which is at least a guaranteed winner for Wordle (not Quordle). There are 3-word strategies that can offer success about 99.4% of the time.
What do you think of my strategy? Do you have your own? Let's hear it!
I found the list of wordle solution words and counted the occurrence of each letter of the alphabet. I use a list of the letters sorted by frequency (I got "EAROTILSNUCYHDPGMBFKWVXZQJ") to pick sets of words that use the most common letters with little or no overlap. The 15 most commonly used letters are "EAROTILSNUCYHDP", so I built a set of triplets of words that contain all those letters with no overlap, and tend to use 3 instead of 4 words. "CORAL PINEY THUDS", "LATER NOISY CHUMP", "HORNY TESLA CUPID" and "ENTRY CUPID HALOS" are among my favorites for they humor value
I like your strategy alot. I personally use the words Tubes, Fling, Champ, and Wordy in that order to give 20 unique letters, your has 19 unique letters with the U repeating twice in fudgy and plumb
Excellent strategy! I think the emerging consensus is the first four words covering as many letters as possible is the optimal way to go.
For practice mode I use WACKY, DOUGH, STERN, BLIMP. It knocks out 20 letters and the only 'common-ish' letter it skips is F, along with the usually-unused QJXZV. I have done 100s of words this way, solving every time and I think only once did I have a "coin flip" ending. Doing practice gets you familiar with the word list and you will eventually 'see' the more unusual words.
For the daily, I like CRATE, DOUGH, BLIMP. I have hit a 5 and two 6's this way and frequently solve in 7. It is a bit harder this way. Sometimes you need to add in a 4th word like SWANK.
This way does initially leave out S and N, but in a way that I feel you usually can 'tell' if a word had them or not.
WACKY DOUGH STERN BLIMP is a really good sequence. As you say, it uses 20 common letters with NO duplicates.
5 letters 3 word set
with 4th if you need it:
ADIEU,
COMFY
& then BLUNT/BLENT or GRAPH
If you've been really unlucky and you need a fourth word with this set; use them both ;-)
(8 not used): JKQSVWXZ left over because two vowels were reused; however they are in new positions to evaluate. If you don't like comfy-- use SOFTY or COWLS - depending on what consonants you want to use or leave out.
I use a three-word set because it gives me one more extra guess for evaluation, (when there are repeated letters, that can be necessary):
I just found out about Quordle. My three words are DARES, POUTY, CLINK. This gives me all vowels (including Y) and most of the more common consonants. It's very rare that I can't solve it in 8.
I use STEAL, BROWN, PUDGY and HICKS. RSTLNE are most common and are covered in the first 2 words. For the first word I randomly alternate STEAL, STALE, LEAST and TALES. I've done thousands of puzzles in infinite wordle and these have worked for me the vast majority of the time.
This is generally my strategy, but these four words aren't optimal since you've doubled up on the letter U. I like to start with FIGHT/LANCE/SWORD (especially because of the theme) and try solving from there; if I get stuck, I'll guess BUMPY (or sometimes JUMPY) to round things out. I like these four in particular (in that order) because all of the letters in the fourth word are relatively rarer than anything in the first three (save for W in SWORD) so it's more likely to allow for solving in 7 guesses instead of 8 if you get lucky with what the four solutions are.
Excellent point! We've had some great discussion on optimizing the strategy in the weeks since this video went live! This is a great strategy in the sense it's optimized to make 7 guess solves more likely! I like it!
I was struggling with Quordle till I came across your video. It worked great thank you, Doug. Now I am going to try the other combinations given in the comments below and see which works best.
Thanks for checking it out! I am going to do a follow up at some point as there has been a ton of research into this game since I made this video!
What I dont like about this method is that part of the fun for me is attempting to solve it in as few guesses as possible meaning you can never get a 2, 3 or 4.
I agree, My aim is to solve it in 6 or 7. Do you have a favourite opening you'd like to share with me? Mine is : CAPER SOUND LIGHT
I agree to use as many different letters as possible, but I don't use the same words. I want a challenge. I may try those other "ordle" games!
Same strategy but i cover 20 letters with two vowels in the first: JOINS, TRACK, HEDGY, PLUMB....if i'm stuck and can afford a 5th guess later on WAFER gives W&F plus two vowel placements.
Very well done. Thank you. Also? Dang you to heck! ;)
I had given up on Quordle, but a friend wanted to challenge me. This strategy and another in your comments work so well that the game is not even very challenging anymore. I'm just explaining the "dang you to heck" comment. I didn't have to watch your video! :)
Now All that remains is to look for other four-word combos with more unique letters, and I don't think there's much to be found in that. So all kidding aside, i take off my hypothetical hat to you!
Thank you! We did get to the point with our daily Quordle video where this strategy just wasn't a lot of fun anymore. This week, we are doing a challenge where I open with two words - one intentionally difficult word from my "hard starting word challenge" series, and one word from a previous episode of my daily wordle series. Expect these episodes to be considerably more interesting!
CHAMP FIRST NOBLY (and if necessary) WEDGE just got me the 500 in a row trophy with the majority solved in 7
TRIES, CHOMP, FLUNG, BAWDY
I like the challenge, so I stick to my single Wordle strategy with two starter words containing the top ten most used letters.
Always get the first word in three .
Then I rearrange yellows with the greens and leftover possible tiles .
Other times I combine and rearrange the yellows from different grids to make a word that often yields results.
The odd words like RAJAH get me as its usually spelled RAJA as in 'king' in Hindi, a popular name for male pets.
Solved a few words I seem to have worked out without even knowing their meaning! Lol
BEVEL DEMUR SQUIB SWAMI etc u
Good video, thanks for your efforts 👍🏻
You can still run into trap words (words with multiple solutions). I swear I'll never break a 100 streak.
And that's what finally happened to me today. 2 trap words. At least I broke 100 games.
For a win rate over 98%, no repeat letters:
AMPLY, BROWN, FUDGE, STICH (or STICK)
As mentioned, if you sort the alphabet based on the occurrence of each letter in Wordle solutions, you get "EAROTILSNUCYHDPGMBFKWVXZQJ" Your set of 4 words, "CANOE SKIRT PLUMB FUDGY" uses 19 of the 20 most common letters, with only 1 duplicate, "U". The remaining untested letters are "____________H_______WVXZQJ". You've chosen a really good set of words.
what about using funky devil scamp throb
Nice video! I'm playing the french version and my goal is to solve it in 6 letters. My strategy adapted to this goal is to start with the words "taies" and "luron", which contain the 10 most frequent letters in 5-letters words in french. From there, well, anything goes!
Nice! I just now realized there are multiple language versions of Quordle!
You should try Polydle! It's like Quordle, but instead of solving 4 words at once, you can solve ANY number of words at once!
I'm definitely going to try this one out! We may play this on our next live stream! Thank you!
You can use that same theory for everything... it works.
my strategy is just 3 words: crane, split, dough.
I do like the idea of giving a strict "three word" strategy a go at some point...hmm...
@@EveryDayDoug idk i just think the less words guesses the better, it leaves room for error too.
CAPER
SOUND
LIGHT
IRATE SOUND GLYPH
these 'four word' strategies aren't great because of what you showed in the video- it's far too easy to get to the very end and get your last word on the very last guess, leaving you no real margin for error. far better to find a good 'three word' strategy- for example, I use "arose", "chump" and "flint" and I almost always solve the daily quordle with two spare guesses.
This is not a method for guaranteed success. After the four words are entered, there can be as many as four possible answers in each of the quarters; only by luck can you tell which of the 256 possible sets of hidden words you are facing that day. What will you do when the hidden words are (haunt or jaunt or taunt or vaunt) and (bobby or booby or boozy or hobby) and (other or otter or outer or voter) and (sever or sewer or sheer or shrew)? A better four-word strategy is CARVE + SIGHT + DOWNY + PLUMB which is at least a guaranteed winner for Wordle (not Quordle). There are 3-word strategies that can offer success about 99.4% of the time.
Thanks for the insight! At some point I really need to make an updated strategy video!