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: UNITE
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; 3 Vowels (U, I, E), No compound consonant
# Of Guesses:  3.6 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*; 3 for WordleGuru

Seed Word: LATER; I looked at the last 3–5 Wordle words to decide between STARE, STALE, and LATER. (A and E are the two highest frequency vowels; R, S, T, and L are the 4 highest frequency consonants.)
Seed Word Revelations: 1 consonant (T), 1 vowel (E) but not their exact positions
# Of Possible Solutions after the seed word: more than 100.   Regardless, it was time to investigate the possibility of deploying the EnotE strategy, even though they were 100+ possible answers.

Second Word: PIOUS; I had a hunch that Y is absent from today’s target word. This was based on the fact that the letter Y predominantly appears in the 5^th position (more than 8 out of 10 times).  Further Y in the 5^th position appears once every 5 days, on an average.   Y had appeared 3 times in the last 11 Wordle words. So, I didn’t want to include Y in the second word.  I still needed to search for at least one more vowel.

After a lot of deliberation, I came up with the word PIOUS (includes three vowels and 2 relatively high frequency consonants).
To my pleasant surprise, and utter disbelief, it eliminated all 100+ words, except for 3 – UNITE, QUITE and QUIET. This is a yet another new record for an elimination word after the last two days of record eliminations.

I fused frequency data to select among the three. Unite had the most likelihood so I chose it and, thanks to Lady luck I got it right. 😊

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EnotE (Eliminate-not-Enumerate) Strategy deployment: Deployed right after the first word.  It worked beautifully!  Led me to the target word (with the help of frequency data)!! 😊
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Final thoughts:  Wordle is a game of luck and skill. So much depends on the seed word.  LadyLuck was in my corner today!

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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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