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🟩🟨⬜ Speed Wordle
* scroll down for secret 5-word cheat sheet
* solve any Wordle in less than one minute with these words
* cheat sheet of 5 words that uses 24 / 26 unique English letters!
* comments + questions -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30459184
🀫🀫🀫 keep scrolling
🀫🀫 yes, keep scrolling
🀫 yep, just a little bit more
πŸ™‹β€β™‚οΈ wait, before you show, how do I use the word list?
* play the five words below in that order on today's wordle
* use your sixth guess to solve that day's Wordle
* try to do whole thing in < 1 minute!
πŸŽ‰πŸš€ yep, here's the super secret word list!
* CRWTH
* FAXED
* VULGO
* ZINKY
* JAMBS
& here's the updated super secret word list which covers 25/26 letters, courtesy @MacBoyGamer below
* JUMPY
* GLENT
* BRICK
* VOZHD
* WAQFS
πŸƒβ€ take it for a spin -> https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/
πŸ“ speed wordle list as mnemonic / sentence:
* CRWTH FAXED VULGO ZINKY JAMBS
πŸ“š definitions:
* CRWTH, https://www.thefreedictionary.com/crwth
* FAXED, https://www.thefreedictionary.com/faxed
* VULGO, https://www.thefreedictionary.com/vulgo
* ZINKY, https://www.thefreedictionary.com/zinky
* JAMBS, https://www.thefreedictionary.com/jambs
βœ… internal todo items
* one letter, ,a, is used 2x -- checking if can 25/26 & get rid of dupe letter
* that letter, a, is also same spot in those two words
* &/or find 5 words that reuse one letter in 2 different spots
* browser extension that auto-plays these letters to max the clock remaining time
* browser extension that plays each word for you, and pauses to see if can solve
* exhaustive list of x/26 combos, e.g., 20/26, 21/26, ..., 24/26, 25/26 letters
* filter list for easy-2-remember, e.g., like CRWTH FAXED VULGO ZINKY JAMBS
* yes, this list was made by hand originally
* more cool wordle things, [todo]()
* search for wordle words, [todo]()
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πŸ’» MVP by @DotDotJames, https://twitter.com/DotDotJames
h/t to @MacBoyGamer for the updated 25/26 per comments!
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EZLiang commented Mar 23, 2022

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The answer was sport. These words do not always work.

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yes, still sorting out best way to add some sort of ymmv disclaimer:

-- no words will work all the time, in theory we can only cover 25/26 letters
-- this list only covers 24/26 letters, and so do need to keep P & Q in mind
-- it's only intended to reduce solving time without having to think about what words to play since just use that word list every day
-- so in my case, open wordle, enter crwth faxed vulgo zinky jambs and one minute later either solved or missed for day, and don't do what was doing, which was spend, idk, 15m every day and too much brain power to solve in fewest guesses

all to say -- sorry if reads like always works -- it doesn't, 80% of time is probably about my experience, probably 60% for most folks until get hang of using it -- any ideas on how to convey that as part of intro definitely welcome

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Personally, I would rather use these words: GLENT BRICK JUMPY VOZHD WAQFS.
These words cover 25 of 26 letters, excluding X. And, because X is rarely in a word, we can safely assume that if you only get 4 letters, it's either a double letter or the slight change of there being an X in the final word.
I hope this helps...

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that's awesome! had done the first set by hand and hadn't had chance to write seeker code to see if 25/26 existed -- thanks!

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