Wordle Bulletin #644 (March 25, 2023) — “Ignore gutfeel at your own peril!”
Today’s Wordle:
Target Word: VOTER
# Of Guesses: 4.1 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*, 4 for WordleGuru.
Seed Word: STARE – The “go-to” seed word starting March 8, 2023.
What we learned from the Seed Word: The seed word revealed 3 letters – T, R, and E but not their positions.
2nd word: COLIN: (2nd word of the triad STARE/COLIN/PUDGY): 5 possible words, including several orthographic neighbor words [VOTER, TOTER, DOTER], [TOPER, TOWER]. Time for the #ENotE© strategy.
3rd word: TOWER — In my judgment only TOWER and VOTER are regularly used words. My gutfeel was driving me towards VOTER, but frequency data preferred TOWER. I got swayed by the frequency data. I know the shortcomings of the frequency data, still I fell for it and lost. A friend of mine has a rule when the possibilities are 3 or less — go with gutfeel. I need to listen to him.
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 on my side. I lost the coin toss. ☹
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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.
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