Wordle Bulletin # 557 (December 28, 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: IMPEL
# Of Guesses: 4.1 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*; 4 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: Presence of 2 letters, 1 vowel (E) and 1 consonant (L), but not their positions.
Second Guess: My “go-to” 2nd word (SONIC) revealed the vowel I, but not its position. After the second word there were 12 possible answers.
Third Guess: I had to come up with an elimination word that would eliminate 11 of the 12. I didn’t know that the word I fabricated/composed (GIBED) based on the letters in the 12 possible answers, was a valid word. I had to check, and it was. It did the job. couldn’t have asked for more
# Of Possible Solutions after the seed word: too many
# Of Possible Solutions after the 2nd word: 12
# Of Possible Solutions after the 3rd word: 1 😊
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EnotE (Eliminate-not-Enumerate) Strategy deployment: Worked perfectly as designed..
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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. I feel lucky today in that my elimination word work flawlessly!
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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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