Today’s Wordle:
Target Word: SWINE (Typical – 2 vowels, 1 compound/ paired consonant) [typical – 2 vowels, 1 compound/paired consonant]
# Of Guesses: 4.2 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*, 4 for WordleGuru

Seed Word: ROATE: first word of the triad – ROATE/SULCI/NYMPH.
What we learned from the Seed Word: Presence of 1 vowel (E) in the 5^th position.  Since most of the Wordle words have 2 vowels, I needed to search for additional vowels.

2^nd Word: SULCI: SULCI is the 2^nd word of the triad. It revealed 1 consonant (S) in the 1^st position and 1 vowel (I), but not its position. At this stage 13 possibilities including many sets of orthographic neighbor words and compound consonants in the 1^st and 2^nd positions – SP SN, SM, SW, SK, SE, and SH. The top three compound consonants by frequency are SH, SW and SP.  It was time to deploy the EnotE© strategy.

3^rd Word: WHIPS: My gutfeel was telling me that the answer word begins with either SH, SW or SP.  With that in mind I chose WHIPS as the elimination word. It did the job. My gutfeel was right today.  It was a risky move though, but today it paid off. 😊

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. 😊

________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________

My strategy, statistical facts and 3-word triads can be found by clicking on the following URL:

My “Go-to” Word Triad (Seed, 2nd and 3rd words), Strategy & Statistical Facts Sections for the Daily Bulletins – Wordle Guru

© 2023 Ashok Gupta All rights reserved.
EnotE © (Eliminate not Enumerate) is copyrighted by Ashok Gupta
Wordle and WordleBot are trademarks owned by the New York Times.

*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.
https:  //www.tomsguide.com/news/what-is-todays-wordle-answer#section-previous-wordle-answers