Pointless host Richard Osman has shared his best tips for Wordle after admitting he got hooked on the game at the start of the year.
The simple word game has taken the world by storm since it launched last year, with hundreds of thousands of people now playing it each day. Read more about how to play and the answers here.
After going viral at the start of 2022, chances are if you've got a Twitter account your feed has been filled with small green, yellow and black tiles - and Wordle is to blame.
And now the king of quiz shows has shared his best tips when he called up Claudia Winkleman after hearing her talk about the game on her BBC2 show.
Claudia introduced him by saying: "I asked for a King, and I got a King. I am speechless, we are in awe. I mentioned Wordle, and you have found time to talk to us. How much do you enjoy Wordle, and how much do you look forward to it each day?"
Richard said: "I discovered it on New Year's Day, when those weird green squares on Twitter. I thought I would have a little go on it, and now I play it competitively every morning with my partner. It is a fierce, possibly relationship-ending competition, or maybe it is relationship-strengthening."
He admitted he was yet to get it in one, stating that it is a 2,500 to 1 chance of getting it first time.
"The way it works is Josh Wardle, who came up with it, has a list of 2,500 words it could be," Richard explained. "They are the 2,500 most common five-letter words in the English language. There will never be a word that we haven't heard of.
"He does have a bigger list, which is one you can take advantage of, with 10,000 words that are in the dictionary, but are much more obscure. Those are the ones you can take advantage of."
Richard said that he quite often starts with the word ALINE.
"It is not a word that it will ever be because it is too obscure, but it has got three vowels in it, which is always a good start," explains the best-selling author. "L and N are quite useful to start with too., and it puts the E in a good place. You can take advantage of the more obscure words, but know the one it is, will be one you have heard of."
Claudia said that getting it in one, like BBC Breakfast supporter Dan Walker did on Wednesday, was a "fluke", but that getting it in three was a "beautiful skill."
Richard said: "To get it in three, sometime you know for a fact it can only be one particular word, but very, very rarely, so you have to ride your luck to get it in three."
Talking about the chances of getting the word in two lines, he said: "If you have got a green and two yellows in your first guess, or two greens and a yellow then usually there is only two or three things that it can be, but you would have had to get lucky on your fist guess as well.
"If you can get your average somewhere between three and four then you are doing well. If it is between four and five that is pretty good as well. If you can get it under four, then you are a master."
He pointed out that the letter S is not used very often because there are very few plurals used, and said the most common starting word is ADIEU.
"That is the one that most people in the world use," he added. "If it ever is that, then Twitter is going to go crazy. AUDIO is another good one. Your vowels are your tent pegs that you build your word around."
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