Wordle Bulletin #658 (April 8, 2023) — “For every 4, there will be a 3!”
Today’s Wordle:
Target Word: LEDGE
# Of Guesses: 4.3 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 vowel (E) in the 5th position. Too many possibilities at this stage. Need 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 9 possibilities – BUGLE, ELUDE, [FLUKE, FLUME/PLUME], KLUGE, LEDGE LEVEE, and MELEE. Time to deploy the EnotE © strategy.
3rd word: PUDGY: (3rd word in my “go-to” triad – STARE/COLIN/PUDGY). Interestingly, the third word of my triad met the requirement of an effective elimination word. At this stage there was only one possibility – LEDGE. Bingo! 😊
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 on my side. The elimination word (PUDGY) could not eliminate 8 of the 9 possible words. I may have needed one more guess.
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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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