Wordle Bulletin #648 (March 29, 2023) — “After a string of 3s, a 4 is to be expected (regression to the mean)”

By Ashok Gupta
on Mar 30, 2023
in Daily Bulletins, Eliminate-Not-Enumerate, Seed word, Strategy

Today’s Wordle:
Target Word: BESET
# 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 2 consonants (S,T), and 1 vowel (E) but not their positions. Too many possibilities at this stage. Need more exploration.

2nd word: COLIN: (2^nd word of the triad STARE/COLIN/PUDGY): No revelations! Still, it narrowed the field to just 9 words – BESET, FETUS, [GUEST, QUEST], EGEST, UPSET, [TESTY, PESTY, ZESTY]. As you can see, two sets of orthographic neighbor words (ouch). Time to deploy the EnotE© strategy.

3rd word: PUDGY: (3^RD word of the triad STARE/COLIN/PUDGY): I could not come up with one word to eliminate 8 of the 9 possibilities. The 2^nd best alternative I came up with after some deliberation interestingly is the 3^rd word of the triad! Luckily it worked and led me to the target word – BESET.

The seed word (STARE) and the second word (COLIN) represent the 10 most frequent letters in the Wordle-words to-date. The 3^rd word (PUDGY) represents 5 of the next 6 highest frequency letters (11-16).

Final Thoughts: Wordle is a game of luck and skill. Sometimes luck favors the game and sometimes it favors the player. Today luck was on my side. It could easily have required one more guess. 😊

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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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