There’s an art and a science to picking a good starting word when you play Wordle. My trusty starter of ARISE has served me so well for years I still use it daily. Emily Long, who writes our daily ...

Sorry Bill Gates, but AUDIO isn't the best word to start with when you're playing Wordle. A pair of MIT researchers recently set out to find the optimal starting word for the popular online puzzle, ...

Some days the alphabet feels more like a general concept than an orderly collection of letters, and no matter how hard you try, the right ones just don't seem to turn up in time. If that sounds like ...