Jeffgoldblumle Solver: Just Guess Jeff Goldblum

The internet's word-game corner keeps getting weirder, and I am here for it. The latest is Jeffgoldblumle: guess a 12-letter word in 3 tries, except the answer is JEFFGOLDBLUM about 90% of the time. The other 10% it is some ordinary 12-letter word, presumably to keep you honest.

The optimal strategy is gloriously dumb: just type JEFFGOLDBLUM. You win nine days out of ten on the first guess. So the Jeffgoldblumle Solver leads with exactly that.

And for the other 10%

When JEFFGOLDBLUM comes back with anything other than all green, you're in the rare case and the clues now point at a real word. The solver is the same engine behind my Wordle solver, just scaled from 5 letters to 12: enter the green, yellow, and gray tiles you got and it filters an 11,000-word list of 12-letter words down to what's still possible, ranked by how much each guess narrows things. With only three tries, that second guess matters.

It joins the Wordle, Hardle, Poople, and Don't Wordle solvers in the games collection. Free, ad-free, runs entirely in your browser. Go find your way to a life, uh, finds a way.