Wordle Has a New Rule That Might Change Your Best Starting Word

There’s an art and a science to picking a good starting word for Wordle. Here are my suggestions for the best starters—and how to find the best starter for your playing style.

Best Wordle starting words for a great first guess

The best Wordle starting words will get your game off to a great start. Here's how math can help you choose wisely.

Wordle success leads NYT to launch Crossplay, its first multiplayer game

The Times’ popular Games unit is debuting Crossplay, a Scrabble-like electronic feature that represents its first designed multiplayer game. It becomes the website’s 11th game, joining a lineup of puzzles that were collectively played over 11.2 billion times in 2025.
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After Finishing Your Daily Wordle, Try These Other Word Games

Some of these word games are challenging while others are more casual.

'We have some exciting news to share' — Wordle will enter new era next week with 'magical' change that will completely shake up the game, and it's much needed

That number was whittled down to 2,309 by the NYT after it bought Wordle in January 2022, and then increased by an unknown amount over the next couple of years, with the addition of solutions such as SNAFU (game #659) and OOMPH (#1662).