Cool idea (and great name). I use 'STEAL' as my first word in wordle. Wondering what a good starting word would be in this variant. First thought: something distributed equidistantly across the keyboard, second thought: aim for edges so you can rule out movement in some directions and reduce search complexity.
I always start with FRUIT, no idea if it's optimal but it works pretty well. Also, unlike Wordle, there's no downside to guessing words with repeated letters, so something like FLUFF could probably work too