Today, the 14th of August 2024, is game 1152 of NYT Wordle. I try to solve this daily and have completed 321 of these over the last couple of years. So here is my Wordle journey for today, which includes my guesses, thought process, some statistics, and, of course, the ANSWER!
I always start my Wordle with 'Trace'. Let's see what that led to:
After the first guess:
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
Immediately, there is a flurry of words in my head. Let's explore and come up with a possible set of words
🅡✖✖✖🅔
Rinse
✖✖🅡✖🅔
Horse
Morse
Worse
Forge
Nurse
Purse
Purge
Serve
✖✖✖🅡🅔
Shore
Shire
No way I am eliminating even half the alphabets with 1 or even 2 words. My best bet is to get clues on the remaining vowel and hopefully get lucky with the consonants. For that, I will try and use a word with both 'O' and 'U', have 'R' in the middle spot, and have an 'S' and maybe 'H' if possible. A 'P' or a 'G' wouldn't be that bad either. I can go for 'Hours', but I would prefer a 3rd spot 'R'. I want to try 'Horus' and see if Wordle accepts it. Nah, bad luck. Have to go with 'Hours'.
After the second guess:
🟨🟨⬛🟩🟨
Did I just get lucky? Ok, let's analyze first. The word has to be ✖✖✖🅡🅔, with an 'S', 'O', and 'H'. But 'H' cannot go in the 1st spot, so unless 'Ohsre' and 'Sohre' are legit words, it has to be 'Shore'.
After the third guess:
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
This was not too difficult, but I can also imagine few who might have been stuck with 'Shire' or 'Shove' as their 6th guess. Stats indicate the same, average guesses of 3.7 which is fairly low, but 4.7% got their 6th guess wrong.
But what matters is that I finally got my 200th 3/6!
See you tomorrow!
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