These Three Starting Words Help Me Consistently Beat Quordle
I used to suck at Quordle.
So sucky that I’d often found myself having to pick the fourth word out of two, on occasion three 😬, viable options.
They say leaderboards and gamification make the world go round.
While Quordle doesn’t have a Leaderboard, my high school WhatsApp group had that one goddamn Shakespeare who would make it a point to post his results first thing in the morning, probably mid-poop.
After a few weeks of this, sufficiently enraged, I resolved to do something about it.
I mean, this cut rate Shakespeare was making me question whether I even deserved to write on Medium any more.
Optimizing My Quordle
So, here is what I did.
Like any good Indian kid, I looked at sample questions… err practice games.
I studied the play strategies of people who obsessively think about this stuff.
I started keeping track of words which had appeared before and had taken a bit of work to figure out.
Eventually, I worked out a plan of action.
- I needed a set of opening words. Like a chess master, I’d always open each game the same way.
