Wordle Bulletin # 460 (September 22, 2022)
Target Word: SAINT
Typical Wordle Word Construct: 2 Vowels and one or more compound consonants (seen with >50% frequency)
Today’s Wordle Word Construct: Typical; 2 vowels and 1 compound consonant (NT)
Difficulty: “Today’s Wordle answer is another easy one.” per Marc McLaren*; “Nothing out of the ordinary” per WordleGuru
# Of Guesses: 3.5 per New York Times’ WordleBot*; 2 for WordleGuru 😊
Average Guesses introduction-to-date for the WordleBot* community: 4.1
Average Guesses Jan ’22-to-date for WordleGuru: 3.75 (aspirational goal is 3.5)
Seed Word & the triad (all 3 words in a triad have non-overlapping and high frequency letters): SALET (SALET/RHINO/PUDGY)**
Seed Word Revelations: 3 letters, including the starting (S) and ending (T)
# Of Possible Solutions After the Seed Word: 1
Second Word: Didn’t need a 2nd word to solve the puzzle. Instead entered the target word – SAINT
Objectives for the 2nd word: N/M
Revelations from the 2nd word: N/M
# Of Possible Solutions After the 2nd Word: N/M
EOE (Eliminate-not-Enumerate) Strategy deployment: Not needed today.
Hindsight: None
Lesson Learned /Relearned: Stay with the triad. A triad can only be effective, if used repeatedly since the outcome is probability based. Also, the law of large number applies.
Gut feel answer: N/A
Final thoughts: I was due for some good news. I was rewarded for sticking with the SALET as the seed word. The WordleGod felt pity on me!
Golf Speak: “Eagle” (2 guesses) for me.
Roughly equal # of “birdies” (3 guesses) and “pars” (4 guesses) for the WordleBot community.
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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
** SALET is the recommended seed word by two MIT professors. Their paper is published as “An Exact and Interpretable Solution to Wordle by Dimitris Bertsimas (MIT professor) and Alex Paskov (MIT Operations Research Center staff)”. The triad of SALET/RHINO/PUDGY is the creation of WordleGuru.