Having only six guesses is the main limitation in the word game taking the world by storm, explanation of the game, Wordle players can jump right into guessing today's word.
Wordle is a quick daily game with basic rules and a new word to solve every day. Players looking to increase the game's difficulty have the opportunity to with the Hard Mode setting. This setting changes the game's rules to make this daily challenge a little bit more complicated: players must utilize all clues in each subsequent guess. This means players cannot use dummy guesses designed to fish for more letters, and must instead attempt to correctly guess the word with each attempt.
When attempting the puzzle with this new rule set, the best words to use in Wordle will depend on what stage you are in the game. Different players have different strategies, but the best trick under these limited rules is to eliminate possibilities. After determining the vowels in play, players can create guesses designed to rule out common consonant clusters. By eliminating the common components of consonant clusters, like p, r, and l, players can eliminate a lot of possible words quickly. In addition, when players have multiple possible words they are deciding between, using the word with the greatest number of common letters between these possibilities optimizes the decisions for subsequent guesses.
How to Enable Hard Mode in Wordle
Enabling Hard Mode in Wordle is both quick and easy, much easier than solving the Wordle puzzle itself. Players wishing to turn on this optional feature can go into the settings menu at the top right of the browser. The first option in this settings menu will be for activating Hard Mode, with subsequent options for Dark Mode and Colorblind Mode. Some players may even find Hard mode to be easier as it requires more critical thinking, and less has reliance on wasted words. This can trick the brain into finding the actual solution faster than just thinking up words that don't have letters previously used.
With that setting active, players can now start the day's Wordle puzzle under the Hard Mode rules. Players utilizing Hard Mode will have their shareable statistics noted with an asterisk (*) to show that the attempt was completed using the optional rule. With this additional option active, players can increase the difficulty of their daily Wordle game.
