The challenge of Duotrigordle is simply this: you have 37 total guesses to find 32 five-letter words. All your guesses apply to every board simultaneously. This isn’t a game of luck; it’s a test of information management and calculated elimination.
The game resets once every 24 hours. When you open the grid, all 32 puzzles are live and waiting. No daily sequence or puzzle is unlocking. Your success hinges entirely on the first four words you choose.
The Opening Volley
You cannot afford to ease into this game. Since you have 32 words to solve and only 37 guesses, you must use your first four attempts as information gathering tools to eliminate the maximum number of letters possible. These words should be chosen for their letter diversity, not for solving any single board.
My personal preference is to use a set of four words that covers at least 18 unique letters. These four guesses are essential.
A Proven Starter Set
When I start the game, my sequence is usually something like this:
- ADIEU: Hits four common vowels and the high-frequency letter ‘D’.
- SLOTH: Introduces ‘S’, ‘L’, ‘T’, ‘H’, and the critical ‘O’.
- PRANG: Adds ‘P’, ‘R’, ‘N’, and ‘G’, bringing in key consonants and the vowel ‘A’.
- FYMJC: This is the game’s first real turning point. This word uses rare letters that often are not in the final words (‘F’, ‘Y’, ‘M’, ‘J’, ‘C’). By using this as a “burn” word, any gray tiles that appear confirm those letters are eliminated from all 32 puzzles.
After these four guesses, you have used up four of your 37 attempts, but you have tested roughly 18 high- and low-frequency letters. This should generate dozens of green and yellow tiles across the grid, allowing you to begin solving immediately.
Reading the 32 Boards
Once the opening volley is complete, the screen is flooded with colors. At this stage, you cannot look at 32 puzzles equally. You must categorize them for efficiency.
Priority 1: The Green/Yellow Density
I immediately scan the grid for any board that has three or more green tiles, or a combination of three or four green and yellow tiles. These boards are the low-hanging fruit. They are usually just one or two guesses away from being solved.
For guesses 5 through 10, I focus exclusively on these dense boards. I use my known letters to solve them as quickly as possible, knocking out the easiest words one by one. The faster you clear the easy ones, the more guesses you save for the difficult boards.
Priority 2: The Final Elimination
Once I reach guess 12 or 15, I pause my direct solving efforts. If I still have a large number of puzzles left (say, 20 or more), I use a second burn word that tests the remaining letters.
For instance, if my initial set didn’t use ‘W’, ‘K’, ‘V’, or ‘B’, I would type in a word like WHEEL or CRAZY (if ‘C’ and ‘R’ are still unconfirmed) just to see what information it yields. This strategic use of a guess to gain information across all remaining boards is better than guessing randomly at one difficult word.
Pacing and the Pressure
The mental challenge of Duotrigordle is the constant pressure of the 37-guess limit. You have to budget one guess to clear one word for the remaining 32 puzzles, with five attempts for error correction.
- If a puzzle gives you four yellow tiles but no green ones, move on. Trying to rearrange four floating letters in a single puzzle will burn three or four precious guesses. It’s better to go solve three other words and come back when you have fewer total boards to manage.
- Once you cross guess 27, you are in the endgame. You have 10 guesses left to clear out whatever remains. If you have done your early work correctly, you should have no more than 6 to 8 words left to find. This is where you can dedicate 1 or 2 guesses to the most stubborn puzzles.
- Constantly check the virtual keyboard at the bottom of the screen. Look for the confirmed gray letters. If a remaining word has only two possibilities, like
M _ A Z _and the keyboard shows ‘E‘ is gray, you can immediately rule out one of the potential answers without wasting a guess.
Alternative Games
If you conquer this 32-word challenge, you can test your focus with other format variants like Octordle or challenge your sports knowledge with deduction games like Poeltl (NBA) and Weddle (NFL).
