Wordle Answer for July 16, 2021

Why this word played the way it did

MARRY runs on a single vowel (A), which makes opener words like ADIEU or AUDIO nearly useless against it — players who started consonant-heavy had the edge. The letter R appears twice, and double letters are the single most common reason a streak dies — Wordle gives no special signal that a letter repeats.

The real danger came from near-neighbors: MERRY and MURRY differ by just one letter, and players who locked in four greens early often had to burn a guess — or two — separating them. The counter-move is to guess a word that tests the differing letters at once rather than trying each candidate in turn.

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