Wordle bulletin – Week of November 6, ‘23 (11/06-11/12) (#870-#876)
Wordle #876 (November 12, 2023) – NY Times WordleBot score: 3.5
Triad: STARE/COLIN/PUDGY
Today’s tactics: After the seed word, there were 12 possibilities. Needed to deploy the EnotE© strategy. Chose LYMPH as the elimination word. It did the job, only one possibility after the 2nd guess.😊
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Wordle #875 (November 11, 2023) – NY Times WordleBot score: 3.6
Triad: STARE/COLIN/PUDGY
Today’s tactics: after the seed word, I looked for a PCon© (position confirmation) word. I chose TAROT as the PCon© word. It did the job by narrowing the choice to just one word. 😊
Please note that the PCon© word TAROT has all the three letters revealed by the seed word, but not their positions. The objective of the PCon© word is to help in revealing the exact positions. As an example, the letter T can only be in the 3rd position.
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Wordle #874 (November 10, 2023) – NY Times WordleBot score: 3.2
Triad: STARE/COLIN/PUDGY
Today’s tactics: today’s seed word was extremely effective as it narrowed the choice to only one word.😊😊😊😊😊
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Wordle #873 (November 9, 2023) – NY Times WordleBot score: 4.8
Triad: STARE/COLIN/PUDGY
Today’s tactics: the seed word and a non-triad second word narrowed the choice to four possibilities – PLACE, FLAME, GLAZE, and FLAKE. My gutfeel was leading me to GLAZE since it has a rarely used letter (Z). Luckily it worked. Otherwise, I may have been in big trouble. This is 2 days in a row that my gut feel has worked. I should not be relying on gut feel for the coming days.
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Wordle #872 (November 8, 2023) – NY Times WordleBot score: 4.6
Triad: STARE/COLIN/PUDGY
Tactics for today’s wordle: after the first two words of the triad, five possible solutions- AGING, APING, ANIMA, NINJA, KINDA. My gut feel was telling me that the answer is NINJA. The main reason is it has a rarely used letter in the fourth position – the letter J. In fact, it has never been used in that position until today. Further, the word NINJA would also serve as a PC (Position Confirmation) word since it has two instances of N and one instance each of I and A. Today my gut feel was proven right. 😊
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Wordle #871 (November 7, 2023) – NY Times WordleBot score: 3.8
Triad: STARE/COLIN/PUDGY
Tactics for today’s Wordle: the seed word was not as effective today since it revealed only one letter. I decided to use a non-triad second word (CHINO) in order to reveal additional letters, especially the vowels. It too was only partially effective. It still left me with 11 possibilities to deal with. I had to rely on the EnotE© strategy and chose FILMY as the elimination word. It did the job.
In hindsight, I was wrong to think that the last letter is going to be a Y. I should have looked at T also as a possibility based on its frequency. A better strategy would have been a combination of the EnotE© and PC (position confirmation) strategies. Based on this strategy, I would have chosen LIMIT, since it has 2 I’s and 1 T. The letters L and M would have worked to narrow the possibilities to less than 11. Live and learn.
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Wordle #870 (November 6, 2023) – NY Times WordleBot score: 3.1
Triad: STARE/COLIN/PUDGY
Tactics for today’s Wordle: after the seed word, 5 possibilities – TRACE, TRADE, ORATE, IRATE, and CRATE. Needed to deploy the EnotE© strategy. I selected DICOT as the elimination word. Luckily, it did the job. A better elimination word would have been TONIC since there are two possibilities that include the letter C (CRATE and TRACE). Phew! Lucky break.
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Useful facts:
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Top 11 consonants in terms of frequency of use (in any of the 5 positions): R T L S N C H P D G M
Rank order of the 6 vowels (including Y) in terms of frequency of use (in any of the 5 positions): E A O I U Y
Typical Wordle word: 2 vowels (counting Y as the sixth vowel), 1 compound (ex KN)/paired consonant (ex NN)
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Strategy:
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Strategy (as of July 1, 2023) – Wordle Guru
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