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Want to master Wordle? Here's the best strategy for your first guess

  • Written by Derek Horstmeyer, Professor of Finance, George Mason University
imageThere are 2,315 five-letter words in Wordle's dictionary.Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images

As Wordle has skyrocketed in popularity, multiple media outlets have published articlesthat explore the best word to use as your initial guess.

Often the authors of these pieces theorize that the word ought to be one that uses as many vowels as...

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