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Data-driven articles about word games, strategy and language. We analyze real puzzle data from DailyWordGames.org and explain what actually works and why.
- Spelling Bee Spelling Bee Pangrams: '-tion' Is Rarer Than You Think We analysed 2009 Spelling Bee pangrams. 94% match none of the suffixes we tested. See the counts and ways to search beyond word endings.
- Wordle The Best Wordle Starting Words in English — A Data Analysis Looking for a Wordle starter? We ranked words from 980 English answers by letter frequency at each position: SLATE, SHARE and CRANE lead.
- Word Search Almost Half of All Words in a Word Search Are Hidden Backwards An analysis of 366 English word search puzzles shows that 50.1% of all hidden words are placed in a direction you have to read backwards.