Friends and fellow Wordle fanatics, this is my mea culpa.
A few days ago, I wrote about the first-word strategy for Wordle, the once-a-day word guessing game that combines the game Mastermind with crossword puzzle solving that has swept the internet (and has irked some people with all those green and yellow box-filled tweets).
WARNING: Before we go on, if you want to keep blissfully playing the game your way, stop reading. Otherwise? Read on!
I thought I had found the perfect word to kick off the guessing — WEIRD, or any other two-vowel word. Since then, I have heard from many fans who have even better words to start with.
And … there’s one that blew my mind.