Wordle Bulletin # 553 (December 24, 2022)
My strategy is built to ensure I solve 95% of the puzzles in 4 guesses or less. It is not built to always shoot for the lowest score possible. The score depends a lot on the seed word. Wordle is a game of luck and skill. My goal is to score an average solve rate of 4 guesses. My aspirational goal is 3.5 average and <5% 5/6 guesses.
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Statistical Facts:
Typical Wordle Word Construct: 2 Vowels and one compound consonant (example KN or TCH)/paired consonant (example PP) ; seen with >50% frequency
10 Most frequent consonants (in declining order): R, T, L, S, N, C, H, P, D, and G
6 Vowels (in declining order): E, A, O, I, U, Y
10 Most frequent letters (in declining order): E, A, R, O, T, L, I, S, N, and C
Frequency of the 5 vowels in the five positions: 15%, 49%, 54%, 35% and 24% respectively.
Position of the letter “Y”: About 80% of all the “Ys” in Wordle are found in the 5th position.
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Today’s Wordle:
Target Word: POISE
# Of Guesses: 3.5 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*; 3 for WordleGuru . 😊
Seed Word: ALERT (Top 3 consonants and top 2 vowels) – No change – this is my go-to Seed word.
What we learned from the Seed Word: the presence of E but not Its position. We should not discount the fact that we learned the absence of 3 high frequency consonants and 1 high frequency vowel.
Second Guess: The choice of the second guess depends on the learning from the seed word. I tried my “go-to” word – SONIC. Today it was an appropriate 2nd word. We learned the presence of O in the 2nd spot and the presence of S and I, but not their positions. Most importantly, SONIC also served the purpose of an elimination word. The combination of seed word and the 2nd word eliminated all but one possibilities. Life can’t get any better! After the 2nd guess, there was only one possibility – POISE. 😊
# Of Possible Solutions after the seed word: Too many
# Of Possible Solutions after the 2nd word: 1
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EnotE (Eliminate-not-Enumerate) Strategy deployment: Didn’t have to use it explicitly
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Final thoughts: Wordle is a game of luck and skill. Sometimes luck favors the game and sometimes it favors the player. Today luck was not needed.
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My other work you may find interesting
I write Rhyming Prose (Prose that rhymes). My work in this area can be found on my website, Rhyming Prose — … when a poem won’t do it!
I have also started writing free-verse poems, haikus and songs. My work in this area can be found on my website, Budding Poets Corner – Poet Laureates of Tomorrow
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*The WordleBot score I refer to comes from Tom’s Guide by Marc McLaren. Marc writes his post at around 7 AM U.K. time.
https: //www.tomsguide.com/news/what-is-todays-wordle-answer#section-previous-wordle-answers
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