Tuesday, January 30, 2024

Catching Up / A "Leg Man"

Had a busy weekend with my Dad visting from Dayton, Ohio.  Between that and a bittersweet result in the NFC Championship game in San Fransciso, I failed to post comments on my Wordle play over the weekend.

Here's my post on the New York Time's Wordle Review comments for Monday, Jan. 29.

Wordle 954 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 SHONE   496 WL
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 TRAIL         12 WL
🟨🟨⬜🟩🟩 ELEGY          1 WL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LEGGY

WordleBot
Skill 95/99
Luck 46/99
Streak 705

I’d be feeling worse about having back-to-back pars, if NYT averages the past couple days hadn’t been above 4.  Or, as my my bride put it this morning, “Wordle was rather difficult.”

Guess #1 yielded only E (out of position) for the second day in a row.  Guess #2 provided only the L (also out of position - yesterday, it was only R).  Overzealous record keeping provided guidance from Game #742 (BLEEP on 7/1/2023) that only 12 solutions remained (actually, only 5 — adjusting for previous & unlikely solutions).  I liked ELEGY best and thought it would likely ensure a par, at worst.  Guess #3 showed me I still didn’t have E & L in the right place — but that the word ended with—GY.  So, I guess it was a good day to be a “Leg Man”.  I lost to The Bot (4 vs 3) but bested the (current) NYT avg (4 vs. 4.4).  This continued the mixed emotions following last night’s NFC Championship game, where the Detroit Lions fell to the 49ers, ending their unexpectedly strong playoff run. 

And, for the sake of completeness, I will also include my Wordle results for the previous days:

Wordle 952 3/6

🟩⬜⬜🟨🟩   SHONE   7 WL
🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜   SKIED     1 WL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩   SNAKE

WordleBot
Skill 88/99
Luck 86/99

NYT avg = 3.7 


Wordle 953 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨   SHONE   496 WL
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜    TRAIL      36 WL
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜    CUBED      1 WL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩    EMBER

WordleBot
Skill 99/99
Luck 32/99

NYT avg = 4.7


So now you're *WAY* more well-informed than you ever wanted to be about my Wordle play.  Although, if you *not* interested in that, I'm surprised you've stuck around long enough to read this sentence.

Take care and stay safe.

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