Seems like the best strategy is to choose words with repeat letters. For example, two great first choices would be LOLLY and SASSY. That's two empty cells that can't be used to guess.
WHIZZ seems like it could be a very strong opening move.
VEXED looks pretty promising too.
Even worse if your guess had them in the right location!
I didn't want to spoil at the time, but yesterday you would have been unlucky with both these word choices!
A decent strategy for guaranteeing that you can win is:
1. Play good Wordle moves (SOARE, RAISE, CRANE, SLANT/PRICE/DOUGH/BALMY[1], HANDY/SWIFT/GLOVE/CRUMP[2]) so that you can determine what the secret is. 2. Undo each of those so you have no restrictions about what you can play. 3. Figure out a 6-word sequence that you'll be able to play that doesn't include the answer. (I started out with some of those double-letter words, another word that used the remaining vowels, then worked backwards from the end with progressively fewer green letters.)
Though apparently if you type in the secret word, you can't undo that, so it may be valuable to re-do the analysis from the links but looking for words that can't possibly be the answer.
links:
1. https://i-kh.net/2022/04/22/my-lazy-wordle-strategy/ 2. https://github.com/norvig/pytudes/blob/main/ipynb/Wordle.ipy...