My strategy is built to ensure I solve 95% of the puzzles in 4 guesses or less.
It is not built to always shoot for the lowest score possible.
The score depends a lot on the seed word.
Wordle is a game of luck and skill.

Target Word: PINEY
Typical Wordle Word Construct: 2 Vowels and one compound/paired consonant (2 letters or 3 letters; seen with >50% frequency)
Today’s Wordle Word Construct: A–Typical; 2 Vowels (I and Y), no Compound consonant
# Of Guesses: 4.4 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*; 4 for WordleGuru

Seed Word: ALERT; I decided to use an anagram of LATER (seed word I used on Oct 30)
Seed Word Revelations: 1 vowel (E) but not its position; no consonant
# Of Possible Solutions after the seed word: too many

Second Word: SONIC; it includes high frequency vowels (O and I) and high frequency consonants (C, S, N)
Second Word Revelations: 1 vowel (I) but not its position; one consonant (N) in the 3^rd position
# Of Possible Solutions after the second word: 10 including 3 sets of orthographic neighbor words – [MINED, FINED, WINED, PINED], [WINEY, PINEY], [DINGE, HINGE], GENIE, and ENNUI. It was time to deploy the EnotE strategy.

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EnotE (Eliminate-not-Enumerate) Strategy deployment: Since yesterday’s Wordle word ended in a Y, I didn’t think today’s will too. I always prefer to choose one of the possibilities as the elimination word.  But today none of the possibilities would have eliminated the rest.  So, I had to come up with an alternative.  I chose IMBED. It worked and led to the target word – PINEY.

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Final thoughts:  Wordle is a game of luck and skill. So much depends on the seed word.  Today’s seed word revealed only 1 letter and that too not in its correct position. But the second word proved to be effective. There was no scope of a score of 3 today. LadyLuck was on the fence today since I was able to solve the puzzle in 4 guesses.

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Statistics corner: P in the first position and Y in the last position have been used 8 time before.

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My other work you may find interesting

I write Rhyming Prose (Prose that rhymes). My work in this area can be found on my website, Rhyming Prose — … when a poem won’t do it!

I have also started writing free-verse poems. My work in this area can be found on my website, Budding Poets Corner – Poet Laureates of Tomorrow

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

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