Wordle Variants and Strategies

The cluster focuses on Wordle gameplay strategies, programmatic solvers, dictionary choices, variants like ScrabWordle or WordSegments, and comparisons to Scrabble or other word games.

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gamepuzzles.com e.g REAIS DONNA JUMBY TNLR ENTRY SERAI alphabest.htm fiveletters.xyz letters words word wordle letter game yellow green guesses clues

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georgevreilly Sep 27, 2023 View on HN

Programmatically finding all remaining eligible words for a Wordle game from guess-score pairs.

dbish Dec 29, 2022 View on HN

Love scrabble and tried upwords but the constraints aren’t right and it’s not as fun

autoexec Mar 8, 2024 View on HN

Does it use the same wordlist as wordle or have they specifically chosen words that would be impossible to not get?

mistrial9 Dec 15, 2018 View on HN

a list of allowed two-letter words on a piece of paper, with the game, and updated from time to time by agreements, solves this well ! local example - 'IQ' is not allowed, but 'Qi' is on the list..

desbo Jan 24, 2022 View on HN

This is great. But it seems to fail with words containing repeat letters, for example, with my word as BOOKS, not on hard mode:SOARE JUMBY BOOST (at this point, it claimed to have won!)

berenza Feb 13, 2022 View on HN

first solution word i got was "DONNA" which was kind of rough to guess. second game it told me "DRAPE" wasn't a word. the game worked fine though, thanks. there's an everyday variant also at fiveletters.xyz

mwestapps Feb 28, 2025 View on HN

With WordSegments you need to guess a 5-letter word within 6 guesses. After each guess, the correct and incorrect segments of each letter will be highlighted and you can use these to guide you toward the correct letters and word.Give it a try if you are interested:https://www.wordsegments.com

uptown Aug 20, 2013 View on HN

Looks fun. Couple dictionary issues, but those can be fixed. Anybody know of the best free dictionaries for word-games?

iams Jan 6, 2022 View on HN

The optimal starting word is ARISE, as it partitions the possible words most evenly across the different green/yellow/grey colour combinations

pedromilcent Aug 1, 2025 View on HN

Nice game, it gets pretty had not to repeat letters after the first words