I enjoy Wordle. Here are a couple of other related sites you might also enjoy:
Word Master - same game, but you can play as often as you like:
https://octokatherine.github.io/word-master/
Absurdle - same game, but the game
cheats (in a certain sense). Each time your guess could narrow the target word down into multiple different possibilities, the game chooses a result that narrows it down
the least, so that it's as if when you play you are always
the most unlucky with your guesses as it is possible to be.
https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html
There's a few different ways you can approach Wordle. One is to identify a particular starting word or set of starting words and always follow that strategy. For example, exhaustive simulation has determined that SALET is the optimal starting word, although lots of people have their own different favorites. ADIEU is a good one, as mentioned. I sometimes like to open with ITCHY LUNAR DOPES, which uses the top fifteen letters by frequency out of the complete Wordle word list. These strategies are good for ensuring you can solve the puzzle. SALET provides the largest edge to anyone who can process the entire word list algorithmically ; ADIEU is good for the way most people think about word structure; and ITCHY LUNAR DOPES nearly guarantees a win in four or five guesses but precludes a lucky win in one, two, or three guesses.
... but I think fixed strategies like these also take a bit of the fun and challenge out of it. I prefer starting with a randomly chosen word each time; I'll let my mind wander and pick some word that fits my mood at the moment. The puzzle then becomes not only can you find the target word, but can you find
good clue words as well? I'll even go so far as to avoid using good clue words that I've used too frequently in the past! POINT, POUND, and ROUTE are often available as second or third guesses no matter what my first guess is, and they are very strong, but I've used them so much that I try not to use them any more. I get a lot of satisfaction at finding a good clue that fits with my previous guesses, fits with the results so far,
and that I haven't used before! It makes me feel like I won a prize for being clever, which of course is very gratifying even if it's not remotely true.
