Bill Gates' Wordle Strategy Involves Very Specific Rules for Vowel, Consonants

Bill Gatescan’t get enough of Wordle.

Gates has kicked days off with a game of Wordle for several months, and that’s not all.

After attempting the Wordle of the day, he moves on to spinoffs likeQuordleandOctordle, according to the post.

Wordletasks players with guessing a five-letter word in six tries or less.

With Quordle, a player guesses four words; with Octordle, it’s eight words.

So how does Gates approach a game of Wordle?

ADIEU is a good one too."

(Want more starting words?Here are some of CNET’s favorites).

Gates says he has to remind himself that vowels can be at the start or end of words.

He wrote that he usually solves the Wordle in the span of “four guesses, sometimes five.”

But he did offer a time when the puzzle bested him.

“One time, I had the last four letters of a word: A-S-T-Y.

I just needed the first letter, but I was down to my final guess,” Gates wrote.

“Thinking of obscure words, I tried PASTY.

But I’d forgotten one of the cardinal rules of Wordle: Letters can be used more than once.

The answer was TASTY.

I lost, thanks to that lousy double T. Lesson learned.”