Wordle Bulletin #701 (May 21, 2023) — “A 4 is lurking, it is overdue now!”
Today’s Wordle:
Target Word: BRASH (Atypical – 1 vowel, 2 compound consonants) [typical – 2 vowels, 1 compound/paired consonant]
# Of Guesses: 3.8 WordleBot average per Marc McLaren*, 3 for WordleGuru
Seed Word: ROATE: first word of the triad – ROATE/SULCI/NYMPH.
What we learned from the Seed Word: Presence of 1 vowel (A) in the 3rd position and 1 consonant (R) but not its position. Since most of the Wordle words have 2 vowels, we needed to search for additional vowels.
2nd Word: SULCI: 2nd word of the triad. It revealed the presence of 1 consonant (S) but not its position. At this stage four possibilities including orthographic neighbor words – [GRASS, BRASS], GRASP, and [BRASS/BRASH]. Time to deploy the EnotE© strategy.
3rd Word: BRASH: The frequency of compound consonants (such as BR) is about 5x-6x the frequency of paired consonants (such as SS). This says the answer is likely to be GRASP or BRASH. Further, frequency wise, SH leads SP. Again, in terms of the frequency in first position, B leads G. Also, when B is in the word, 2/3 of the time it is in the first position. So strictly from a frequency basis, BRASH is the likely answer. Digesting all this, I decided to use BRASH, as the elimination word. It was a risky strategy, since BRASS is a better elimination word. Luckily it worked. 😊.
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 corner. I won the coin toss. I know my luck is going to run out one of these days soon. 😊
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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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