Wordle Bulletin # 459 (September 21, 2022)
Target Word: RECAP
Typical Wordle Word Construct: 2 Vowels and one or more compound consonants (seen with >50% frequency)
Today’s Wordle Word Construct: Atypical; 2 vowels and 0 compound consonant
Difficulty:
– “Today’s Wordle answer is a fairly easy one” per Marc McLaren*
– “Nothing out of the ordinary” per WordleGuru
# Of Guesses:3.7per New York Times’ WordleBot*; 4 for WordleGuru
Average Guesses 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 (The 3 words in a triad have non-overlapping and high frequency letters): SALET (SALET/RHINO/PUDGY)
Seed Word Revelations: 2 vowels (A and E), but not in exact positions
# Of Possible Solutions After the Seed Word: >25.
Second Word: RHINO (2nd word of the triad)
Objectives for the 2nd word: Reveal if any of the 5 letters (R, H, I, N, O) are in the target word
Revelations from the 2nd word: The letter R in the 1st position
# Of Possible Solutions After the 2nd Word: Five possibilities – REPAY, READY, REARM, REBAR, and RECAP.
EOE (Eliminate-not-Enumerate) Strategy deployment: My goal always is to pick one of the possibilities as the elimination word since it gives an opportunity to solve the puzzle with this move. I chose REPAY as the elimination word. It did the job and led me to the target word which is RECAP.
Hindsight: None
Lesson Learned /Relearned: None
Gut feel answer: None
Final thoughts: Nothing unusual today.
Golf Speak: “Par” for me; More “birdies” (3 guesses) than “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.
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