I used to do that, until I started playing hardcore (you have to use letters revealed), but I still start with DUSTY every time and then CLIMB if there are no matches, and KNAVE if there are still none.

Generally, I find the word faster than if I had started with all three.

Nah, I start with Audio

I just start with ADIEU to maximize vowel discovery and go from there.

It’s not cheating so much as using a strat to play the game optimally.

Think of it like the difference between playing a game casually and speedrunning a game. When you play casually you just do whatever, fuck around and if you make it to the end in a somewhat proper way great, if you don’t that’s good as well. When you are speedrunning a game you learn all the strats and execute them for optimal gameplay with the goal to complete the game as fast as possible within a certain ruleset.

It totally depends on what you want to do, do you want to fuck around and just have some fun? Or do you want to get to the end as fast as possible? Neither is wrong and I wouldn’t consider speedrunning cheating, it’s just a different way to enjoy the same game.

I don’t think its cheating. People have their own favourite starting word. I’ve always used CRANE

Play hard mode instead. I consider anything less to be cheating for myself.

ROAST

If it feels like cheating its probably because youre making things too easy on yourself. Try hard mode

AUDIO, STERN, and LYMPH for me.

For the Quordle I do CRATE POUND SILKY unless I feel a 6 coming sooner, in which case I’ll start guessing.

For Wordle I only ever deviate from guesses that don’t use previous info if im risking wiping out. Otherwise my guesses are valid and I usually get it in 4 or 3. There were some real sneaky ones over the holidays though

Was wondering what to use. Pooop just never quite worked out so well. ;-)

But serious about the tips, thanks fellas!

I go QUERY, BASIL, CHOMP myself, lol

I always start with PENIS and go from there. Sometimes I follow up with ALOUD, or I try something more specific if PENIS revealed a lot of letters.

A three word set with no C or Y? That’s not cheating, that’s just handicapping yourself. You’ll never get the Wordle in 3 unless it happens to be one of your starting words.

Try starting with SHALE and PRINT and try to solve it in 3. If you really need another hint after that, follow up with GUMBO or COMFY.

The only time I use multi-word starts are in races or in multi-Wordle puzzles like Quordle. For those, I start with COMET, FLASH, BRINK, PUDGY because I can type them fast.

I start with RATES and usually get it in 3-4 tries.