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: SPELL
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; 1 Vowels (E), 1 compound consonant (SP), 1 paired consonant (LL)
# Of Guesses:  3.9 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*; 3 for WordleGuru

Seed Word: STARE; from now on this will be my seed word.
Seed Word Revelations: 1 consonant (S) in the 1^st position, 1 vowel (E) but not its exact position
# Of Possible Solutions after the seed word: 27; it was time to deploy the EnotE strategy, even though they were 27 possible answers

Second Word: PLINK; after a lot of deliberation, I came up with the elimination word PLINK. Yes, it is a valid word!  It led to the target word by eliminating 26 of the 27 possible words!  This is a new record for an elimination word.  It led me to the target word – SPELL

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EnotE (Eliminate-not-Enumerate) Strategy deployment: Deployed right after the first word.  It worked beautifully!  Led me to the target word!! 😊
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Final thoughts:  Wordle is a game of luck and skill. So much depends on the seed word.  I selected STARE based on the frequency distributions of letters.  Today LadyLuck was on my side.  One elimination word was able to knock out 26 of the 27 possibilities.

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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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