My strategy 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.
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Target Word: MEDAL
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: A-Typical; 2 Vowels (A, E), No compound consonant
# Of Guesses:  4 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*; 4 for WordleGuru

Seed Word: LASER; I looked at the last 3–5 Wordle words to decide among STARE, STALE, LASER and LATER. (A and E are the two highest frequency vowels; R, S, T, and L are the 4 highest frequency consonants.)
Seed Word Revelations: 1 consonant (L), 2 vowels (A and E) but not their exact positions
# Of Possible Solutions after the seed word: more than 75.   Regardless, it was time to investigate the possibility of deploying the EnotE strategy, even though they were so may possible answers.

Second Word: CHANT; The goal was to confirm the position of A and search for the presence for 4 high frequency consonants. The result was disappointing since the only thing we learned was that A is not in the 3rd position. After the 2^nd guess, there were only 19 possible solutions.

Third Word: IDEAL; The best elimination word I could think of was IDEAL since some words among the 19 had a 3rd vowel (predominantly I, not O, U or Y). IDEAL eliminated 17 of the 19 but left me with a “big mess” of having to deal with 2 orthographic neighbor words – PEDAL and MEDAL.

The frequency distribution data for P and M in the 1^st position gave an edge to PEDAL. However, my “gut feel” was nudging me towards MEDAL. Luckily for me today “gut feel” was proven right. Yesterday, it was just the opposite – frequency data had won out.

LadyLuck was on my side. But Wordle God as usual played a trick with 2 orthographic neighbor words.
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EnotE (Eliminate-not-Enumerate) Strategy deployment: Deployed right after the first word but needed two rounds of EnotE deployment. It worked moderately well since I had to rely on my “gut feel” which led me to the target word (with the help of frequency data)!! 😊
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Final thoughts:  Wordle is a game of luck and skill. LadyLuck was in my corner today!  So much depends on the seed word.  It appears that my strategy of cycling through the 4 seed words based on the previous 3-5 Wordle words is working.
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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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*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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