Sunday, December 7, 2025

Solving wordle in 3 guesses or less

I've recorded 1216 attempted wordles, and finished 608 (or exactly half) in 3 guesses or less. This happened a little earlier than expected**, mostly due to a 14-day run of 2's and 3's.

A table showing the number of wordles I've completed, by number of guesses required.
Wordle games by number of guesses needed

Of course, the reason why I'm starting to get many more in 2 or 3 is because there are only 713 words left from the original wordle list. So far, NYT has peppered in 30 words that weren't in the original list, but it's unclear to me how many more they can add without getting obscure or including 's' plurals.

** I thought it would be around the 4th anniversary of my first wordle, on Jan 5.

1 comment:

  1. Man, you are good! I'm practically a newbie (at 191 played, for a long while I ignored it thinking Wordle was just a glorified hangman), but I've only managed to solve about 25% under 3 or less (56 3s, 3 2s, 0 1s). Do you still remember what your two hole-in-one words were? I've standardized to using FAIRE, which has not been a Wordle yet according to wrdl.net. I dream of getting it right the first time...

    I did not know plurals are avoided!

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