My strategy (LEARN-W2) is built to ensure I solve 95% of the puzzles in 4 guesses or less. It is not built to always shoot for the lowest score possible. The score depends a lot on the seed word. Wordle is a game of luck and skill.  I expect the LEARN-W2 strategy to score 3 most of the time, 4 some of the time, no 2s and a few 5s.

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Target Word: AMBER
Typical Wordle Word Construct: 2 Vowels and one compound/paired consonant (2 letters or 3 letters; seen with >50% frequency)
Today’s Wordle Word Construct: Typical; 2 Vowels (A, E), 1  compound consonant (MB)
# Of Guesses:  4.1 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*; 4 for WordleGuru

Seed Word: RAILS; I am following my LEARN-W2^© strategy in the selection of the seed word.
Seed Word Revelations: A and R, but not their positions
# Of Possible Solutions after the seed word: >25

Second Word: NOTCH; Needed to serve dual purpose – reveal and eliminate; After some deliberation, I picked NOTCH with 1 vowel (O) and 4 of the 8 most frequent consonants.  It didn’t do as well as I was expecting in either of the two roles since there were still 20 possibilities at this stage.

Third Word: BUDGE; Single purpose only – narrow the list from 20 to hopefully 1; after some deliberation, I picked BUDGE.  It was partially effective. It narrowed the choice to 2 words – ZEBRA, and AMBER. My gut feel was leading me to ZEBRA, but frequency data was pointing to AMBER. Odds for either word were 50 – 50. I chose to go with frequency and this time got lucky.

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EnotE (Eliminate-not-Enumerate) Strategy deployment: Needed 2 rounds to flush out the target word. ☹

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Final thoughts: Wordle is a game of luck and skill.   Hopefully, my strategy (LEARN-W2) continues to work as designed.

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My other work you may find interesting
I write Rhyming Prose (Prose that rhymes). My work in this area can be found on my website, Rhyming Prose — … when a poem won’t do it!

I have also started writing free-verse poems, haikus and songs. My work in this area can be found on my website, Budding Poets Corner – Poet Laureates of Tomorrow
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LEARN-W2 : Learn by Evaluating and Assessing the Recent NYTimes’ Wordle Words

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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

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