Strategy
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.

My current performance vs. the goals:
I started using the current set of seed and 2nd words on 12/9/2022. My performance since then is summarized below.  Due to relatively small sample size, it is too soon to draw any statistically valid conclusions.

No. of puzzles solved: 50
Average: 3.42 (aspirational target 3.5 or less) 😊
% Puzzles solved in 4 guesses or less: 96% (Goal >/= 95%) 😊
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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/M
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: UNLIT
# Of Guesses: 4 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*; 4 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:
–  Letter(s) with their position (s): 1 (T)
  –  Letter(s) without their position (s): 1 (L)

Typical or atypical target word? —Typical
— # of Vowels: (Typical 2); 2 (U, I)
— # of Compound/paired consonants: (Typical 1); 1 compound /paired consonants (NL)

2^nd word: MUSIC; 11 possible answers after the seed word. Decided to deploy EnotE© strategy. The “go-to”” 2nd word (SONIC) was not a good elimination word, so I looked for an alternate. The best elimination word I could come up was MUSIC. Thankfully, it did the job.

Interestingly while SONIC was not a good elimination word, it would have worked just the same in this case.  It’s a game of luck (probability) and some skill.

# Of Possible Solutions after the 1st word: 11
# Of Possible Solutions after the 2nd word: 1
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EnotE^©  (Eliminate-not-Enumerate) Strategy deployment: Deployed the EnotE^© Strategy after the seed word. It worked as intended.
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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.  Luck was in my corner today.  Had I used my gutfeel, I’d have been wrong!
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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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© 2023 Ashok Gupta All rights reserved.
EnotE (Eliminate not Enumerate) is copyrighted by Ashok Gupta
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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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