Wordle Bulletin – Wordle #456 (September 18, 2022)
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Wordle #456; September 18, 2022
Target Word: STICK
Typical Wordle Word Construct: 2 Vowels and one or more compound consonants (based on frequency)
Today’s Wordle Word Construct: 1 vowel and 2 compound consonants (ST and CK)
Difficulty: ” fairly straightforward ” per Marc McLaren*; “typical” per WordleGuru
# Of Guesses: 3.6 per New York Times’ WordleBot*; 4 for WordleGuru
Average Guesses introduction-to-date per WordleBot community*: 4.1
Average Guesses Jan ’22-to-date for WordleGuru: 3.75 (aspirational goal is 3.5)
Seed Word: SALET
Seed Word Revelations: 0 vowels, 2 consonants (S and T); 1 consonant in the exact position (S in the 1st position)
# Of Possible Solutions After the Seed Word: >25.
Second Word: OPIUM; the best option containing three vowels (I, O, U) in terms of frequency of the 2 consonants required to make a valid 5-letter word
Objectives for the 2nd word: Reveal vowels (I, O, U) and additional consonants (P, M)
# Of Possible Solutions After the 2nd Word: just 4 – STIFF, STICK, STING, and STINK
EOE (Eliminate-not-Enumerate) Strategy deployment:
I prefer to pick one of the possible answers as the elimination word, if viable, since it gives a chance to solve the puzzle right then and there. I was able to do that today. I chose STINK, since it was able to eliminate three of the four (including itself). Unfortunately for me STINK was not the answer, but it led to the answer that is STICK by eliminating the remaining two possibilities.
Hindsight: N/A
Lesson Learned /Relearned: none
Gut feel answer: none
Final thoughts: successfully avoided the temptation of falling into the enumeration hell.
Golf Speak: “Par” for me; More “birdies (3 guesses)” than “pars (4)guesses” for the WordleBot community.
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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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