Prolog:  The strategy I employ is designed to ensure I solve the puzzle for sure, preferably in 5 guesses or less.  This strategy will rarely solve the puzzle in 3 guesses or less.

Target Word:  ADMIT
Typical Wordle Word Construct:  2 Vowels and one or more compound consonants (seen with >50% frequency)
Today’s Wordle Word Construct:  Typical; 2 vowels (A and E) and 1 compound consonant (GR)
Difficulty:  “Today’s Wordle answer is another easy one.” per Marc McLaren*; “Nothing out of the ordinary” per WordleGuru
# Of Guesses:  Between 3 and 4 per Marc McLaren* (The Exact number not available)
4 for WordleGuru
Average Guesses introduction-to-date for the WordleBot* community:  4.1
Average Guesses Jan ’22-to-date for WordleGuru:  3.75 (aspirational goal is 3.5)

Seed Word & the triad (all 3 words in a triad have non-overlapping and high frequency letters):  SOARE (SOARE/CULTY/NYMPH)**
Seed Word Revelations: 1 letter (A) but not its position
# Of Possible Solutions After the Seed Word: >25
Second Word: UNITY (decided to not use the second word of the triad, since the seed word revealed the presence of only 1 vowel and majority of the Wordle words contain 2 or 3 vowels)
Objectives for the 2^nd word: Reveal the presence of two high frequency consonants – N and T.  Also reveal the presence of 3 vowels – U, I and Y.
Revelations from the 2^nd word: Presence of 1 vowel (I) and one consonant (T) , but not their positions
# Of Possible Solutions After the 2^nd Word: Nine – ADMIT, AMBIT, ATTIC, TIDAL, BATIK, HABIT, VITAL, TACIT, and TIBIA.  Four of these words (AMBIT, BATIK, TACIT, and TIBIA) are not very common words.  Therefore, the possible words universe shrinks down to just 5.
3^rd word: Based upon frequency distribution data, I was pretty sure that the last two letters are IT. I was also reasonably sure that the first letter is A, again based upon frequencies. Since majority of the wordle words use a compound consonant, I was leaning towards three words AMBIT, ADMIT and ATTIC.
I chose ATTIC as the third word, again, based on frequency data. Since ATTIC didn’t work, I was left with a hard choice between AMBIT and ADMIT. AMBIT is not as common as ADMIT. Admit as the fourth guess and it turned out to be the target word.
Objectives for the 3^rd word: Eliminate 2 of the three possibilities among ATTIC, AMBIT and ADMIT.

EnotE (Eliminate-not-Enumerate) Strategy deployment: Did not use explicitly.

Hindsight: Compound consonants are more frequent than pairs of the same consonants.  I should have tried ADMIT as the third guess.  I’d have solved the puzzle in 3 guesses.
Lesson Learned /Relearned: Frequency distribution data is valuable and insightful.
Gut feel answer: None
Final thoughts: Wordle is a game of luck and skill.  Only one doesn’t work.  Luckily for me, frequency distribution data helped.
Golf Speak: “Par” for me. Mix  of “pars” (4 guesses) and “birdies” (3 guesses) for the WordleBot community (exact mix not listed on Marc McLaren’s website.

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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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