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.  My goal is to score an average solve rate of 4 guesses.  My aspirational goal is 3.5 average and <5% 5/6 guesses.
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Statistical Facts:
Typical Wordle Word Construct: 2 Vowels and one compound consonant (example KN or TCH)/paired consonant (example PP) ; seen with >50% frequency
10 Most frequent consonants (in declining order): R, T, L, S, N, C, H, P, D, and G
6 Vowels (in declining order): E, A, O, I, U, Y
10 Most frequent letters (in declining order): E, A, R, O, T, L, I, S, N, and C
Frequency of the 5 vowels in the five positions: 15%,  49%, 54%, 35% and 24% respectively.
Position of the letter “Y”:  About 80% of all the “Ys” in Wordle are found in the 5^th position.
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Today’s Wordle:
Target Word: POISE
# Of Guesses:  3.5 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*; 3 for WordleGuru . 😊

Seed Word: ALERT (Top 3 consonants and top 2 vowels) – No change – this is my go-to Seed word.
What we learned from the Seed Word: the presence of E but not Its position.  We should not discount the fact that we learned the absence of 3 high frequency consonants and 1 high frequency vowel.

Second Guess: The choice of the second guess depends on the learning from the seed word. I tried my “go-to” word – SONIC. Today it was an appropriate 2^nd word. We learned the presence of O in the 2^nd spot and the presence of S and I, but not their positions.  Most importantly, SONIC also served the purpose of an elimination word.  The combination of seed word and the 2^nd word eliminated all but one possibilities. Life can’t get any better! After the 2^nd guess, there was only one possibility – POISE. 😊

# Of Possible Solutions after the seed word: Too many
# Of Possible Solutions after the 2^nd word: 1
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EnotE (Eliminate-not-Enumerate) Strategy deployment: Didn’t have to use it explicitly
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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 needed.

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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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