If you are fortunate and/or clever, you can get one side in the first few guesses and have many left over so you can focus on solving the second. However, if you manage to answer the first one on your fourth or fifth guess—especially if you concentrated on getting that side solved at the cost of making more valuable guesses on the other side—you could find yourself tossing in a Hail Mary word in an attempt to obtain the twofer.

And what about those color-coded keyboards dordle that are so convenient? you may wonder. That might be the most clever twist of all. When you are working on both puzzles, the letters that have been guessed are divided in half. For instance, if there is an E in the left grid that is in the proper position, but there is no E in the right-hand word, the E on the keyboard will be half green and half gray on the respective sides. After you solve one side, the letters of the answer will have a subtle green stripe along one side, and the colors that are pertinent to the second side will cover the remainder of the key. To put it another way, the keyboard is actively assisting you in concentrating on that unresolved aspect.

The good news is that Zaratustra created a non-daily, randomized version of Dordle that you may play as many times in a row as you like to improve your strategy and vocabulary. This is in addition to the daily Dordle, which is the same for everyone. Yes, both the daily and unlimited versions create the now-familiar blank grid that you can copy to your clipboard to show off your brilliance (or your failure, or failures, plural).

The bad news, as you may have guessed, is that endless Dordles make it as tough as it is addicting. If you are currently working on your own version of Wordle, here is a timely reminder: you may have too much of a good thing.