Sutom: the French version of Wordle Motus style, our tips and words to win every time

Sutom: it's almost like Wordle and almost like Motus

We were talking to you earlier in the week about Wordle, the new game that is obsessing the Internet, and especially the social network Twitter , where many users daily post their ability or not to find the word of the day.

A simple and addictive concept: every day, a 5-letter word in English to find, six chances to suggest the correct word, the game indicating in yellow the letters of the proposed word which are correct but misplaced and in green those who are in the right place. Once the Wordle of the day has been found or not, you can very easily share your grid on social networks and your progress towards the word (identical for all players of the day) and in particular compare your speed in finding it.

The success of Wordle quickly inspired developers who are fans of word games: this is how "Sutom" was put online a few days ago, a kind of French version of Wordle but inspired by from the cult morning TV show of France 2: Motus, hosted by Thierry Beccaro with a masterful hand for 29 consecutive years, from 1990 to 2019. The latter is in the process of conquering the French internet, it is true that It's easier to play with the dictionary of your native language, but has some small differences.

How to play Sutom?

Sutom, the French counterpart of Wordle using the rules of the Motus show, is simply played in any browser on computer or mobile on the official site of sutom.

Sutom's rules differ from Wordle's in these ways:

You still have six tries to find the word Sutom to guess.

The method to win every time at Motus and Sutom

Remained almost 30 consecutive years on the air, the game Motus has become, to say the least, cult and different strategies to be effective there have been able to be tested and validated by the thousands of candidates who participated. The author of these lines having had the chance to participate in the cult show shortly before its disappearance from the screens of the public service, here is the method to win in Motus that the production team recommended to the participants, and which totally apply to win at Sutom.

In Sutom, it is extremely tempting to seek to complete the word thanks to the well-placed letters discovered initially, but this strategy of wanting to "plug the holes" can lead you, on the contrary, to a dead end, trying to complete the word and its ending without knowing which letters to do it with... As you repeat your already secure red letters instead of trying to discover other valid letters using the whole line of proposal.

To win every time in Sutom, you really have to get into the habit of looking for as many clues as possible thanks to the first 4 propositions. And to do this, you need to know some magic words...

The words you need to know to win in Sutom / Motus

If you have watched the Motus show a few times, perhaps you have wondered about the meaning of certain words spoken regularly on the antenna by the candidates, but frankly unknown to the daily French language that we speak: do you know what a TOUAILLE is? Answer: a coarse cloth that serves as a tea towel or towel. Do you know COUDRAIES (lands planted with hazelnut trees) near you? However, these unusual words have the very pleasant advantage of covering the five main vowels of the alphabet in a single proposal, and therefore of immediately knowing which vowels are in play in your grid. Here are, for each possible initial, words that will systematically get you off to a good start in your Sutom of the day:

Systematically start your grid with these very open words, then try to vary the beginnings of words and endings on the following three lines (an adjective in ANT, a past participle in the feminine plural in ÉS...) and you will have without no doubt there are still enough clues to deduce with the two remaining moves the solution of your Sutom!

The screenshots of Motus illustrating this article are taken from the broadcast of May 22, 2017, available on YouTube, France 2 having posted many old episodes on a dedicated channel that will delight the most nostalgic.