Wordle 18 January 2026

This is the daily wordle thread for the nyt version of wordle. On wordle there is ability to play using "hard mode" which requires player to use any revealed hints in subsequent guesses. Jan 14, 2022i adapted my wordle solver to print out a list of every word, ranked by how good a starting word it is, so people can see how good their choice is.

Jan 25, 2022the homepage of your archive opens a wordle on the same page. The official original wordle and the official new york times version both check a valid word list client-side. Mar 8, 2022i ran every word my dictionary against a subset of 200 random wordle targets to save computing time, then computed how many words i had left based on the pattern of squares i got after.

What is the best wordle starting word? Feb 24, 2022share a wordle link in the comments if you can think of one to stump this strategy! Going through the wordle archive from day 1 ive been on a 110+ streak and counting.

Jan 8, 2022here's the actual distribution of wordle solutions containing each letter.