EXPEL-led

Here's my post on the New York Time's Wordle Review comments for yesterday.

Wordle 955 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 SHONE  496 WL

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 TRAIL        10 WL

⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 LEVEL         2 WL

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 EXPEL

WordleBot

Skill 99/99

Luck 40/99

Streak 706

Another day, another 4+ NYT Wordle average.  January is “going out like a lion.”  (It hurt me a little to use that phrase, I admit it.)

Guess #1 yielded only E (out of position) AGAIN, for the third day in a row.  Guess #2 provided only the L (in position this time -- yesterday, it was out of position).  My out-of-control record keeping provided guidance from Game #810 (DWELL on 9/7/2023) that only 10 solutions remained (actually, only 6 — adjusting for previous & unlikely solutions).  I went with LEVEL to give myself a shot at 3 and ensure a par, at worst.  

Side note:  Some folks on the NYT Wordle forum have suggested that a “par” shouldn’t always be 4, birdie always 3, etc.  But adjusting par based on the overall player average every day, is probably more effort than anyone is willing to devote to the matter.  Even me. 

Guess #3 showed me the solution included two Es and ended with —EL.  So, I EXPEL-led the solution and watched all the letters turn green.  I tied The Bot and bested the (current) NYT avg (4 vs. 4.7).  I just hope this run of “tough pars” doesn’t jeopardize the efforts I took to get my 3-Guess solutions to exceed my 4-Guess solutions (all-time stats).  

On Tuesday, I was (and still am) healing up from a dental procedure Monday evening.  I will be making quite a few more trips to the dentist over the next month+ to complete the "installation" of an implant for my new front tooth (#8 -- for you dental aficionados out there).

Take care and stay safe.