It’s time for the New York Times to provide the player with a database of valid Wordle solutions. Players struggle with today’s Wordle puzzle due to the way the word is made up. Today, Wordle shares its last four letters with several other words, which can potentially frustrate players and force them into a guessing game if they are unable to eliminate other potential solutions. Be warned as this article details potential solutions for today’s Wordle.

After guessing PESTO for my second guess, I figured I was left with two distinct sets of words that could be the answer. The first were words that end in -ESTY, such as ZESTY or TESTY, while the others end in -ESTS, such as BESTS, TESTS or RESTS. I finally chose BESTS as my third guess, which eliminated the last group of words, which opened the door for me to get the correct answer on the fourth try.

However, my personal frustrations with Wordle today came after solving the puzzle. I like to check out WordleBot, an automated Wordle solving program hosted by The New York Times, to compare solutions and see what steps I could have taken to improve my Wordle process. WordleBot informed me that my third BESTS guess was a “lost guess” because that word couldn’t be a potential solution to today’s Wordle.

Since BESTS is a valid word in the English dictionary and hasn’t been eliminated by my first two guesses, it can only mean one of two things. Either WordleBot is wrong or the word does not appear on the list of potential Wordle solutions that the game chooses at random when selecting today’s puzzle.

We know that The New York Times has already removed words for the potential Wordle answer pool in an effort to make the game more accessible and less frustrating for players. However, unless The New York Times tells players which words it removed, these changes are bound to be more frustrating for players, especially in situations where they “waste” a guess on a word that doesn’t. is not valid for the game.

Scrabble and other popular word games all have “official” word dictionaries that players can use as tools while playing. While part of the fun of Wordle is that it’s quick and easy, there should always be an “official” wordlist that players can use as a reference tool when solving today’s puzzle. .