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: VALET
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:  3.8 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*; 4 for WordleGuru

Seed Word: SCALE; I looked at the last 3–5 Wordle words to decide among STARE, STALE, LASER, LATER and SCALE. (A and E are the two highest frequency vowels; R, S, T, L, N and C are the 6 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 many possible answers.

Second Word: PRANG; The goal was to confirm the position of A and search for the presence for 4 high frequency consonants. But I made a mistake.  “A” in PRANG is in the same spot (3^rd) as in SCALE- an opportunity lost. We didn’t learn anything new.   But the number of possibilities got reduce to 17.  I needed one more round of EnotE deployment.

Third Word: DELTA; The best second elimination word I could think of was DELTA.  It worked like a charm and eliminated all but one – the target word – VALET. LadyLuck was not involved today.

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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 well.

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Final thoughts: Wordle is a game of luck and skill. So much depends on the seed word. People who used SALET as the seed word today (a popular & effective seed word) solved it in 2 guesses! It is not clear how well my strategy of cycling through the 5 seed words based on the previous 3–5 Wordle words is working. It is too early to tell.

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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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