Wordle fans everywhere have discovered the perfect FOUR-vowel opening word to use

Friends and fellow Wordle fanatics, this is my mea culpa.

A few days ago, I wrote about the first-word strategy for Wordle, the once-a-day word guessing game that combines the game Mastermind with crossword puzzle solving that has swept the internet (and has irked some people with all those green and yellow box-filled tweets).

WARNING: Before we go on, if you want to keep blissfully playing the game your way, stop reading. Otherwise? Read on!

I thought I had found the perfect word to kick off the guessing -- WEIRD, or any other two-vowel word. Since then, I have heard from many fans who have even better words to start with.

And ... there's one that blew my mind.

The word is ...

I have to give credit to my pal Nick Schwartz, who told me to start using  ...

ADIEU.

That's right, it counts! That's FOUR VOWELS. FOUR! You'll immediately have a clear picture of which of the five are either in or out.

I won't spoil Friday's Wordle, but let's just say this one really really helped.

I'm not the only one who's discovered this

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