Friday, December 29, 2023

Christmas Wordling: The Fourth Day Of Christmas

I posted this on the New York Time's Wordle Review comments yesterday -- 

Wordle 922 3/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 SHONE   105 WL
🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 RIVAL          1 WL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEARN

WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 68/99
Streak 673

(To be sung to the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas”)

“On the Fourth Day of Christmas, my First Guess showed to me
Yellow letters — an N and an E
Then my Second Guess was RIVAL —  To my delight I see
R, A and L — all five letters, but where should they be?
On my third guess, I pondered — and then it came to me
LEARN was the word — I solved in 3 — it’s so sweet when the squares all turn green”

Some days in Wordle, you’re confronted by the circumstance that a common word you know very well is spelled in a manner that’s actually quite unusual. Today was that day for me.  I had all five letters after Guess #2 - but none in the proper position.  For Guess #3, I kept trying to separate the vowels and use them as Letters 2 & 4 — but that wasn’t working.  I did eventually LEARN the answer.  It didn’t take *that* long — but it *seemed* a lot longer.  So I tied The Bot and bested the (current) NYT avg (3 vs 3.4).  Looks like there will be lots of solves on first and second Guesses today — the Comments should be quite upbeat.  

Take care and stay safe.

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