By NYT. 15 million games. This should take you to the reader version.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/1...d=120207040241260064

Interesting list of first words. When I was doing Wordle more regularly I started with 'adieu' a lot. Guess it wasn't the best choice.

Lately we've been stuck on Squaredle (thank you, jon-nyc). We do the daily one each morning and have been working our way through the various special puzzles, some of which have hundreds of words to find.

Interesting.

I have a completely different strategy. My aim is always to solve, I don't care how many tries it takes me. So I *always* start with the same words, and aim to eliminate as many consonants and vowels as possible.

My starting words are
REALM
STICK
BOUGH

Then, I might do
PANDY
or
WINDY

depending on what I've got. Then I solve on the fifth try. Figuring out if I need a Y and eliminating as many consonants as possible works pretty well for me.

For the longest time, I had a 100% win rate, but a few times recently, I've messed up, so now my win rate is 99%.

I actually do this the same way with Dordle, Quordle and Octordle.

As you can imagine, this gets a little repetitive, so although I still do these (at breakfast), the ones I enjoy more these days are Connections and Strands (NYTs).

Train
Stare
Stain
Share (worked well today)
Raise