Wordle Bulletin #661 (April 11, 2023) — “No qualms with fours!!”
Today’s Wordle:
Target Word: QUALM
# Of Guesses: 4.2 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*, 4 for WordleGuru
Seed Word: STARE – The “go-to” seed word starting March 8, 2023.
What we learned from the Seed Word: The seed word revealed one consonant (A) in the 3rd position. Needless to say, we needed more exploration.
2nd word: COLIN: (2nd word in my “go-to” triad – STARE/COLIN/PUDGY). It revealed one consonant (L), but not its position. At this stage 5 possibilities FLAKY, LLAMA, QUALM, [PLAYA, PLAZA]. Time to deploy the EnotE © strategy.
3rd word: PLAZA: I like to use one of the possible words as an elimination word if it makes sense. Sometimes I do get lucky — the elimination word happens to be the target word. I used PLAZA. I was torn between QUALM and PLAZA as the target word. QUALM was not a suitable elimination word. So, I ended up with PLAZA as the 3rd word. It led me to the answer – QUALM.
The seed word (STARE) and the second word (COLIN) represent the 10 most frequent letters in the Wordle-words to-date. The 3rd word (PUDGY) represents 5 of the next 6 highest frequency letters (11-16).
Final Thoughts: Wordle is a game of luck and skill. Sometimes luck favors the game and sometimes it favors the player. Today luck was not on my side. I lost the coin toss.
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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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