Thursday 8 August 2024

NYT Wordle #1146 : My insights



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Today the 8th of August 2024 is game 1146 of NYT Wordle. I try and solve this on a daily basis and have done 315 of these over the last couple of years. So here is my Wordle journey for today, which contain my guesses, thought process, few statistics, and of course the ANSWER!



I always start my Wordle with 'Trace'. Let's see what that resulted into:



After the first guess:

⬛🟨🟩


My first thought is that this could be a word which ends either with 'ch', 'ck' or 'cy'. 'cs' or 'ca' could be possible as well. Let's analyze the possible sequence of letters

 

🅐✖✖🅒✖:

Can't think of any at the moment.

 

🅐✖🅒✖:

Saucy

Fancy


✖🅒🅐:

Can't think of any at the moment.


Usually my second guess is about eliminating as many probable letters as possible. However, I am struggling to put together a possible list of solutions. I am definitely keen on trying 'Fancy', even though it is nothing short of a gamble. If it is not 'Fancy', I would not be entirely sure if it is 'Saucy' either. If it's another solution with a XAXCX formation, then God help me!

 


After the second guess:

⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩

 

Exactly what I was afraid of!

Now as I have nothing else in mind except 'Saucy', I think I will have to go for that and hope and pray that the solution is not something like a Paucy or Halsy (neither of them are actual words right? RIGHT?). Ok, here we go with 'Saucy'



After the third guess:

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩



Phew! In hindsight, this could have been a possible 2/6, but I'll take 3/6 any day. Wordlebot says the other solutions I didn't take into account after my first try were 'Yucca' and 'Amuck'. If it was either, I would have lost my 100% record for sure!





This is how Wordlebot rates my solution for today:



Based on the statistics, only 26% managed to do this in 3 tries and 7.9% got it wrong in the last attempt. Even Wordlebot took 4 attempts for this. Not a particularly easy one today. But happy to have improved on my score marginally to 3.256 guesses on average.






See you tomorrow!



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