Low On Luck

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

Wordle 958 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 SHONE   496 WL
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 TRAIL          9 WL
🟨🟩🟩⬜🟩 FLEET          1 WL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CLEFT

WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 41/99
Streak 709

Don’t let anyone tell you it’s not better to be LUCKY than SKILLful in this game. Since Sunday, I’ve had 90+ SKILL scores every day — but I’ve only been under par the one day (yesterday) that my LUCK score exceeded 50.

Guess #1 yielded only the E (out of position) which The Bot described as “unlucky”.  Guess #2 provided T & L (both out of position), which theoretically left 9 possible solutions.  Based on out-of-control record keeping, however, I knew from my play in Game #666 (DWELT on 4/16/2023) that only 5 solutions remained and The Bot’s favorite word in that scenario was FLEET, which had not previously been a solution — so I played it for Guess #3.  It wasn’t today’s solution either, but it did confirm that LE & T were in their proper places — and F had to be Letter 4.  It was a bit anticlimactic to play CLEFT — but I did it anyway, so I could watch all the letters turn green.  I tied The Bot but fell to the (current) NYT avg (4 vs. 3.6) — which seemed to me an unusual circumstance that I will need to research further.  Just glad the work week is coming to an end. 

And, since I missed posting both here and in the NYT comments on Thursday, I'm including my results from that game below.

Wordle 957 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 SHONE     193 WL

⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 TRAIL       3 (1) WL

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ALIVE

WordleBot

Skill 99/99

Luck 61/99

NYT avg = 3.6

Better finish this up so I don't miss a second day of posting.  I have standards to uphold after all.

Take care and stay safe.