r/wordle

Has anyone else had trouble using spoiler tags recently? In this past week, I have found that if I post something, and then edit it to put a spoiler tag in, it’s somehow taking away the spoiler tags around my solution (the solution that I copy from Scordle) And then the spoiler tags around my edit also don’t work, even though I have the symbols in the correct spots.

Did the NYT say anything about this?

I can't play today's wordle. Every time I try I get paywalled behind "sign up for a seven day trial or pay us our absurdly expensive subscription" screen. RIP wordle, latest victim of enshittification.

>!For 1840 on July 3rd, 2026, the final word was BATON.!<

>!I got it in 5, and my 4th guess was BANTU. The bot told me: "despite being a valid guess, bantu isn’t a likely solution." I anticipated that, but went with it anyway to get more info.!<

>!However, it told me that I had narrowed it down to two words: BATON and FATWA. I don't think that there is much difference in the likelihood of FATWA or BANTU. I could see BANTU being rejected as a proper noun, but if it is an acceptable word, how should a player know that it is too unlikely to use when FATWA is a likely word?!<

Are those words really that different in their likelihood?

i'm not talking about starting words.

i notice from the wordle-bot that a few words come up pretty often as useful to narrow down the words. For example, the word 'tarot' is often a useful one, but not one I would really think of.

I am well aware that the best word to try will be a function of the answer, previous guesses, etc. But it seems to me like there are, probably, nonetheless a few good toolkit words that would be good to have up front and centre as ones to consider trying, but which might not naturally occur. Anyone have a list of these?

If you get two yellows (one vowel, one consonant) is it more strategic to hunt for the location of the yellow letters, or to fish for more letters? For example, a word that uses the yellow letter twice would be a good way to find its position, but would lose a chance to identify another letter. Just wondering if anybody has (1) actual statistics, (2) logical argument, or (3) anecdotal commentary. Thanks!

This relates to the July 1, 2026 puzzle No. 1838.

I don't want to post screenshots so as to avoid spoilers, but I caught the bot in an outright lie.

When analyzing my puzzle, it said that my third guess " is exactly what I would've picked in this situation."

However, when I compared the bot's solved puzzle to my own, I saw that our second guesses were the same, but the bot DID NOT CHOOSE THE SAME WORD as I did for our third guess, even thought it claimed my third guess was "exactly what I would've picked in this situation."

So I often see a few “mathematical” best opening words and sure for one aim or another they may indeed be the best starting word/s. What I don’t seem to see discussed as much is the subjective goal(ie. Most amount of low guesses, best words for ensuring a streak, best words for eliminating as many words possible to guess from).

I believe this small reframing of individual goals and what each person is seeking to achieve will have a vastly different pool of “best” starting guesses.

For my own goal of just simply get the right answer with my own personally selected words and the order in which I guess them are as follows:

1. Aeros
2. Milky
3. Punch

I’d have to make an educated guess that there’s a pool of three words that would make a guess statistically more/most probable than my three choice words I guess every time but I believe my goal is to work from my own three first guesses and work from there. Again this seems to be just to my own preferred goal.

I'll start strong. Playing Spanish wordle, I got "Hahaha"

The wordle number thing sucks btw tf's up with that.

Boyfriend and I had the same exact guesses and final solve today. But upon reviewing the Skill and Luck scores they were completely different. The guesses he made had significantly higher “Skill” scores than my same EXACT guesses. What gives?

[Posted this previously and it was removed by Mods. Question contains no spoilers or answers.]

The NYT wordles have 5 letters with 3 possible colorations each, yielding 3^5 = 243 possible wordle colorations. A list of these colorations is available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.32811581