NYT Wordle is sort of unattainable to lose when you use these 5 phrases

For an extended interval through the peak of the NYT Video games craze of 2020, new Wordle methods appeared on the timeline like clockwork. However within the years since, gamers have honed their private methods in ways in which have made maintaining with day by day streaks a chunk of cake.

That does not imply there’s no more to mine from the sport. This week, social media customers got here throughout an apparently foolproof strategy to whittle away at incorrect letters and make use of these anagram abilities.

Based on a viral X put up by person and Wordle strategist @rudy_betrayed, you can begin by popping in these 5 phrases: CHUNK, FJORD, VIBEX, WALTZ, and GYMPS. The put up has already racked up 22,000 bookmarks.

[Note: That last word is defined by Oxford Languages on Google as “twisted silk, worsted, or cotton with cord or wire running through it, used chiefly as upholstery trimming.” But it’s also listed as a potential derivative of a derogatory phrase. While it’s a high-value Words With Friends entry, it’s not valid in the Merriam Webster Scrabble dictionary. It may work for the dictionary’s dupe Quordle, though.]

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The technique makes use of 25 distinctive letters within the sport’s first 5 rounds, solely lacking the ornery letter Q, giving customers only one slot to guess the successful phrase. However in response to the alphabet math and gamers who use the technique, it is almost unattainable to not spot the phrase among the many gray tiles.

There’s nonetheless a little bit of brainwork wanted, in fact, like parsing letter teams which have a number of anagrams. It isn’t going to at all times assist if you do not know the phrase to start with, as a result of that is simply how Wordle works. And, as many social media customers argued within the put up’s quotes, possibly it is sucking the enjoyable out of factor to attempt to “hack” the sport within the identify of a better rating.

However when you’re a fairly good Wordler already — and particularly if it is a week like “MYRRH” — that is undoubtedly a trick value making an attempt.

Not the day you are after? This is the answer to yesterday’s Wordle.