10 Wordle Strategies To Keep Your Streak Alive

Proper strategy and tactics go a long way if you're trying to keep your streak alive. The hit browser game challenges players to guess a new five-letter word every day, with only six guesses and a pool of thousands of possible words. Optimal letter placement, great starting word choices, and outside-the-box thinking will take you far.

A streak in means that you've guessed the right word more than once without missing a day. As such, one of the best tips for maintaining a streak is actually just to remind yourself to check in daily. From there, pick some of best-starting words (although there's no shortage of debate here), and use the following tips to find the right word with guesses to spare.

The New York Times created WordleBot once they added the game to their puzzle section. After completing your daily game, WordleBot provides a detailed, in-depth analysis, rating each guess and providing a luck and skill rating for each.

You can study your game step by step to figure out where and when you could have made better word choices. Its most useful feature tells you how many possible words still fit after each guess, so if you narrow the list down from 200 to 2, then you know you're approaching with the right mindset.

Players can also check the most common word choices made by the community each day to gain some insight into the most popular and winning strategies being used.

WordleBot's insight is invaluable, and there's even an interesting FAQ on WordleBot's inner workings from NYT. Unfortunately it's for paid subscribers only, which limits how useful it is. However, if you have a subscription, then it's a useful tool for optimizing your guessing game.

now uses a bigger pool than before. However, checking which words has already used is still a valid way of narrowing down the list. The odds of guessing the right word from a pool of thousands is extremely low, but if you've managed to find some of the right letters, then a word list can offer some suggestions for