Wordle Bulletin #655 (April 5, 2023) — “4 after a string of 3s; Regression to the mean! Fully expected!!”
Today’s Wordle:
Target Word: SMASH
# 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 1 consonant (S) and one vowel (A) in the first and third positions respectively. Too many possibilities at this stage. Need more exploration.
2nd word: COLIN: (2nd word in my “go-to” triad – STARE/COLIN/PUDGY). No revelations, but not all is lost. Knowledge gained – the target word doesn’t have these five high frequency letters.
3rd word: PUDGY: (3rd word in my “go-to” triad – STARE/COLIN/PUDGY). No revelations yet again, but we gained a lot of knowledge. Only two possible orthographic neighbor words – [SMASH and SWASH]. I picked SMASH and lucked out. Won the coin toss.
The seed word (STARE) and the second word (COLIN) represent the 10 most frequent letters in the Wordle-words to-date. The 3rd word (PUDGY) represents 5 of the next 6 highest frequency letters (11-16).
Today’s target word has 2 compound consonants (SM and SH) and only 1 vowel. The odds of target words with 1 vowel are 1 in 5 (treating Y as the sixth vowel).
Final Thoughts: Wordle is a game of luck and skill. Sometimes luck favors the game and sometimes it favors the player. Today luck was in my corner.
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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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