Today’s Wordle:
Target Word: AGAIN (Non–Typical – 3 vowels, no compound/ paired consonants) [typical – 2 vowels, 1 compound/paired consonant]
# Of Guesses: 3.9 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*, 3 for WordleGuru. 😊

Seed Word: ALTER: first word of the triad – ALTER/SONIC/PUDGY.
What we learned from the Seed Word: It revealed one vowel (A) in the first position but no consonants. Since we revealed only 1 vowel and most of the Wordle words have 2 vowels, we needed to search for them.

2^nd Word: GIMPS: Based on the universe of possible words after the first guess, I decided to not use the second word of the triad (SONIC). Instead, I chose GIMPS. At this stage 3 possibilities including a set of orthographic neighbor words – AGAIN, [ACING, and AGING].  Time to deploy the EnotE© strategy.

3^rd Word: AGAIN: I always prefer to use one of the possibilities as an elimination word if it makes sense.  The reason is that once in a while the word I choose from the list of possibilities happens to be the target word.  Indeed, this was the case today. In fact, either of the 3 words would have worked as an elimination word.  I chose AGAIN based on frequency data.  It worked.  My lucky day. 😊 Had it not worked, I was looking at a score of 4.

Final Thoughts: Wordle is a game of luck and skill. Sometimes luck favors the game and sometimes it favors the player. Today luck was in my favor. 😊

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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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