Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Wordle 752: The Full 90

I opened today with FLASH. I briefly considered FLACK or FLECK, but no. FLASH was the opening guess today and it rewarded me with a yellow A and a green H. This is a pretty good result and much better than yesterday, when I got nothing correct. I'm feeling pretty good about this. Since I know the H is at the end, I get a feeling that fourth letter is either a C or a T. Now I just need to determine where the A goes and start building a word for my second guess.

I put A at the front, but that doesn't make any sense. I type in TEACH, but that won't work because of the placement of the A in the third spot. Still, I consider it, because it'll give me more info, but since it's a throwaway guess, I don't like it. I do like the EA combo, so I keep that, but move it forward. Moving it back to 3/4 wouldn't make any sense. So now I've got EA--H with the hunch that a C or T goes fourth. EACH is too short, so I mentally put a T there. EA-TH and then EARTH pops out to me. I hit enter for a solve in two and am feeling pretty good about myself.

It's here that I again must gripe about WordleBot, which gave me a skill score of 66 and a luck score of 93. Okay, there is luck involved in getting a solve in two, but WordleBot felt that my first guess had more skill than my second guess, which I just disagree with. After FLASH, WB tells me that there were only 12 words to choose from. That was the lucky guess. EARTH had some thought behind it. The other thing that annoys me is that WB also "solved" the puzzle in two guesses, but it gave itself a luck score of only 82. Sure, WB had an additional yellow tile after its first guess, but that doesn't feel like it should be worth 11 points. I don't know. Anyways, my streak is up to 90, which is pretty cool.

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