Wordle Bulletin #622 (March 3, 2023) — “Back to 4 :-(“
Good times only lasted for one game; back to 4. ☹
Today’s Wordle:
Target Word: SQUAT
# Of Guesses: 3.8 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*, 4 for WordleGuru. ☹
Typical or atypical target word? — Typical, it contains 2 vowels (A and U) and one compound consonant (SQ). The “norm” is 2 vowels and 1 compound/paired consonant.
Seed Word: STAIR – An old seed word, recycled.
What we learned from the Seed Word: The seed word revealed 2 letters (T and A), but not their positions. 7 possibilities at this stage – SPLAT, SAUTE, SATAN, SALTY, SANTA, SWEAT, and SQUAT. Time to deploy the EnotE© strategy.
2nd word: PANTY (not the “go-to” 2nd word with the new seed word – CLONE); Could not come up with a word that would eliminate 6 of the 7 possibilities. Chose PANTY as the best alternative, knowing fully well that it would not cover SWEAT and SQUAT. Decided to take the chance. The fears were realized! Now a coin toss between SWEAT, and SQUAT.
3rd word: SWEAT – lost 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 not on my side.
Incidentally, the standard go-to 2nd word (CLONE) paired with STAIR (seed word) would have eliminated all but SWEAT! I tried to “outwit” the Wordle God and paid the price!
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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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