Today’s Wordle:
Target Word: YACHT
# Of Guesses: 3.8 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*, 4 for WordleGuru ☹

Typical or atypical target word? — Typical, it contains 2 vowels (A and Y) and one compound consonant (3 consonants – CHT). The “norm” is 2 vowels and 1 compound/paired consonant.

Seed Word: STARE – The “go-to” seed word starting March 8, 2023.
What we learned from the Seed Word: The seed word revealed 2 letters – T and A without revealing their positions.  Too many possibilities at this stage. Need more discovery.

2nd word: CHOIL (2^nd word of the triad STARE/CHOIL/PUDGY): It revealed C and H but not their positions.  At this point there were 6 possibilities with 5 orthographic neighbor words [BATCH, HATCH, PATCH, MATCH, and WATCH] and YACHT.  Time to deploy the EnotE© strategy.

3rd word: WIMPY – I could not come up with a single word to eliminate 5 of the 6 possibilities.  Had to use a less optimal word.  I chose WIMPY.  It proved to be lucky, since it confirmed the only word with a Y, i.e., YACHT.

Final Thoughts: Wordle is a game of luck and skill. Sometimes luck favors the game and sometimes it favors the player. Today luck was on my side.

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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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