Wordle Bulletin # 506 (November 7, 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.
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Target Word: BEGIN
Typical Wordle Word Construct: 2 Vowels and one compound/paired consonant (2 letters or 3 letters; seen with >50% frequency)
Today’s Wordle Word Construct: A-Typical; 2 Vowels (E and I), NO compound consonant
# Of Guesses: 4.0 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*; 4 for WordleGuru
Seed Word: STYLE; I am rotating the seed word among my go-to words with two vowels. These are. ALERT/LATER /ALTER (anagrams), SALET/LEAST, ROAST, LOSER, STORE, STILE/TILES, STYLE, and TIRES/TIERS
Seed Word Revelations: No consonant, 1 vowel (E) but not its exact position ☹
# Of Possible Solutions after the seed word: too many
Second Word: RANCH; Since the seed word revealed the presence of only 1 vowel, I needed to search for additional vowel(s).
Second Word Revelations: 1 consonant but not its exact position, no vowels ☹
# Of Possible Solutions after the seed word: 22; it was time to deploy the EnotE strategy.
Third Word: UNFIX; It was impossible to eliminate all but one with a single word. I selected the second best (based on my best analytics) UNFIX as the elimination word. It did the job and led me to the target word – BEGIN. LadyLuck was on my side. Fortunately, WordleGod was not watching. Things could easily have unraveled.
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EnotE (Eliminate-not-Enumerate) Strategy deployment: Deployed right after the second word. It worked beautifully! Led me to the target word!! 😊
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Final thoughts: Wordle is a game of luck and skill. So much depends on the seed word. I selected STYLE based on the observation that roughly 1 out of 5 times, the last letter is a Y. I had not seen a Y for the last 5 words. I should have also noticed that Y was the 5th letter for Wordles #499 and 500. In that sense, Y was not due for another appearance. STYLE is not an effective word. I won’t be using it again.
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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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