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: APTLY
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: Typical; 2 Vowels (A and Y), 1 Compound consonant (3 letters PTL; interestingly yesterday they had LTZ!)
# Of Guesses: 3.9 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*; 4 for WordleGuru

Seed Word: LOSER; I decided to test my hypothesis that on two successive days they won’t use the same vowels. Yesterday they used A so today I thought I would try EO. Still using high frequency letters my seed word became LOSER.
Seed Word Revelations: No vowel; 1 consonant (L), but not its position
# Of Possible Solutions after the seed word: Too many

Second Word: CHANT; it includes high frequency vowel (A) and high frequency consonants (C, H, N, and T)
Second Word Revelations: One vowel (A) and 1 consonant (L), but not their positions
# Of Possible Solutions after the second word: 5 – APTLY, TALLY, TIDAL, VITAL and FATAL. It was time to deploy the EnotE strategy.

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EnotE (Eliminate-not-Enumerate) Strategy deployment: I had a hunch/gut feel that the last letter is a Y. I always prefer to choose one of the possibilities as the elimination word. With that in mind, I had to choose between APTLY and TALLY as the elimination word. I chose TALLY and it proved to be wrong.  It led to the target word – APTLY.

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Hindsight: I did not choose the right word as the second word, since my hunch was that the 5^th letter is a “Y”.  That was a mental error.  YATCH would have been a better second word.
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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. LadyLuck was not on my side today

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Statistics corner: A in the first position and Y in the last position have only been used twice – ANGRY and ABBEY.  Whereas T in the first position and Y in the last position have only been used thrice – TIPSY, TODAY, and TANGY

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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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My other work you may find interestingI 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