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Ive never been one to jump on the bandwagon.

And to be honest, there wasnt much strategy involved.

The game Wordle displayed on a smartphone in front of a screen showing another Wordle game

It was just pure luck.

Honestly, my first guess was a stroke of luck it already gave me two yellow letters.

I started with plane for no particular reason other than it had common letters and two vowels.

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We went with villa next, which was actually risky considering the word didn’t have double L’s.

That led me to the answer uvula.

Knowing this gave me somewhat of an advantage, and I was able to make the guess fairly quickly.

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Im definitely not a Wordle master, but this little win felt like a fluke.

In fact, I might start playing Wordle more often just for the fun of it.

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