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maxkfranz 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words

I used to use “stare” or “stale” as the starting guess when I played Wordle, thinking you’d want to start off with the most common letters, like R-S-T-L-N-E from Wheel of Fortune.

manarth 6 months ago [–]

"stale" was used a while back - since then I've been starting with "slate"

kimos 6 months ago | [–]

But now you can use it again!

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