Today’s Wordle:
Target Word: PINKY
# Of Guesses: 4.0 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*, 4 for WordleGuru.

Typical or atypical target word? — Typical, it contains 2 vowels (I, Y) and 1 compound consonant (NK). The “norm” is 2 vowels and 1 compound/paired consonant.

Seed Word: STAIR – The “go-to” seed word starting March 1, 2023.
What we learned from the Seed Word: The seed word revealed 1 letter (I), but not its position Too many possibilities at this stage.  Need more discovery.

2nd word: CLONE (the 2^nd word of the go to pair STAIR/CLONE): 10 possibilities at this stage – [DINKY, KINKY, PINKY], UNIFY, VYING, FUNGI, NIPPY, WINDY, ZINGY and DINGY.  Time to deploy the EnotE strategy.

3rd word:  DINKY; Could not think of a single word that would eliminate 9 of the 10.  Chose a second best.  Thankfully it reduced the list to just 2 words – KINKY, and PINKY.  Interestingly, the 3^rd word of the triad (PUDGY) would have eliminated all but PINKY!

4^th word: PINKY – chose based on frequency and mix data.  Won the coin toss! 😊

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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