It is great fun to watch your friend struggling with the word puzzle that was invented by yourself. No, of course, I mean nothing malicious at all, but the process resembles those times when you are watching how your parents observe how their kids are building a very complicated LEGO set. Once I started to play the Challenge a Friend game on wordleunlimited.dev, I realized that choosing random word and choosing the perfect challenge word is not the same thing at all. It all depends on the word itself: boring words will be guessed in three moves and forgotten immediately, but perfect ones will be discussed in your chat room for the next two hours. Therefore, after spending several months on the Challenge a Friend game on wordleunlimited.dev, I somehow developed the technique of choosing a perfect word to puzzle your friend, and now I want to share it with you.

What Can Make the Word Hard to Guess?

Let us begin with the explanation of the basic principle of what can make the word difficult to guess. As we know, there is the mechanic of six attempts and letter guessing depending on its position on the grid on wordleunlimited.dev. In this way, the difficulty level of the game depends on the ability of the word to deny all possible guessing patterns. Words like HOUSE can be considered as easy to guess since almost all the players use such openers as AUDIO, HOUSE, RAISE, having at least three or four letters in common with the word. On the contrary, FUZZY is extremely hard to guess because the first attempts provide no results. After the fact that the player has noticed that the word contains two Zs, he will spend additional four attempts trying to find out what is wrong with him or her. The name for this strategy can be called the letter frequency avoidance or word choice that teases common openers. And that is basically everything.

Double Letter Trick I Accidentally Found Out

This is a trick that I accidentally found out during one weekend, and since then, it has turned to be rather effective. In one of my games, I suddenly noticed that each time when I was sending the word containing the repeated letter, my friends spent at least two additional attempts to guess it. Why is it happening? The point is that most of the players automatically think that any five-letter word contains five different letters. After noticing a green E in position 3, they do not even think of it as a letter that can be in any other position of the word. Thus, words like LEVEL, MAMMA or BUZZY become twice as hard to guess just because of the fact that there is a repeated letter in them. If you really want to tease your buddy, you should choose the word containing two identical letters in weird positions on the grid. Believe me, they will feel that they were personally attacked once they finally get that. Moreover, the best thing about this trick is that the word can still be rather common in daily English language. Thus, nobody will complain that you use obscure vocabulary against them. This is a kind of evil that is totally fair.

Words That Looks Unfair But Actually Are Fair

There is a category of words that looks completely unfair when you send it as a challenge to your buddy, but totally is fair according to the rules of the game. These are the words containing uncommon letter combinations that are ignored by most of the players in their first three attempts. Such words as WALTZ, GLYPH, NYMPH, JIFFY, GYPSY or QUACK belong to this category. Do you notice something similar in all of them? Yes, the fact is that all of them contain either Y, W, Z, Q or repeating consonants. Once you choose such words as a challenge to your friend, he or she will spend three or four attempts trying to figure out what letters are in the word. By that time, the player either panics and stops playing or makes a lucky guess. Once my best friend told me that after I sent him NYMPH, I should be reported to the authorities. Such is the chaos we are talking about.

My Personal Guide to Choosing Words

I have developed the certain guide of choosing challenge words on wordleunlimited.dev myself over time, and I believe that sharing it with you will save you from trials and errors. First rule – you should never pick a word that contains letters AUDIO, RAISE or ADIEU at their exact positions, since these are the most common openers used by everyone. Second rule – if you manage to find a word with doubled letters, you should definitely choose it, since it gives you additional damage for free. Third rule – try to include an uncommon consonant in your word, such as J, Q, V, W, X, Y or Z, since these letters reduce the guessing space for the player. Fourth rule – the length of the word is important, so 6 or 7 letter word gives you more chances to hide the difficulty of the word, while 4 letter word is usually too short to be difficult. Finally, fifth rule – you should always consider the difficulty of the word for the specific person, because sending a nightmare word to your mother will make her stop playing forever. I learned it the hard way. Now I keep the list of "mom words" and "friend words" in my head and use them accordingly.

Conclusion

Choosing a word that puzzles the mind of your buddy is half of the fun in using Challenge a Friend feature on wordleunlimited.dev. Everyone can send a random word to anyone, but creating a word that will make your friend text you "how are we still friends" is a certain type of art. You should start with the word containing doubled letters, include an uncommon consonant, avoid standard opener letters and match the difficulty of the word to the specific person you are sending it to. It will not take you long before you realize which words were guessed in three attempts and which words puzzled your buddy. Thus, this feedback is what makes the whole process of choosing a word so addictive. Go ahead and create a challenge link right now, choose the word that will make you sweat and see whose word wins in your friend circle. Do not forget to take some screenshots, since these are the trophies you keep.