Today, the 20th of August 2024, is game 1158 of NYT Wordle. I try to solve this daily and have completed 327 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:
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
2 yellows. Let's analyze the possibilities that I can think of at the moment:
🅐🅔✖✖✖
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🅐✖🅔✖✖
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🅐✖✖🅔✖
Apnea
🅔🅐✖✖✖
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✖🅐🅔✖✖
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✖🅐✖🅔✖
Hazel
Navel
Label
🅔✖✖🅐✖
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✖🅔✖🅐✖
Pedal
Penal
Delay
Medal
✖✖🅔🅐✖
Knead
Plead
Gleam
🅔✖✖✖🅐
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✖🅔✖✖🅐
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✖✖🅔✖🅐
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✖✖✖🅔🅐
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Takeaways:
- Probability of 'E' being in the 2nd, 3rd, or 4th spot, and 'A' being in the 2nd or 4th spot is the highest. Presence of another vowel is quite unlikely.
- 'L' is present in almost every word, and is most likely to occur in the 5th spot.
- The next most frequent alphabets seem to be 'D', and then 'P' and 'N'.
'Pedal' seems to be a pretty good guess at first glance. My brain isn't working like a computer at the moment, so I will not overthink it and just go for 'Pedal' and figure it out after that
After the second guess:
⬛🟩🟨🟩🟨
'Delay' seems to be the only possibility from my list. But before jumping to conclusions, let's check if there could be any other word with these letters
🅛🅔✖🅐🅓
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🅓🅔🅛🅐✖
Delay
✖🅔🅛🅐🅓
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I think I am about 95% confident that it will be 'Delay', so let's just go for it!
After the third guess:
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Anyway, my score is back to 3.250, and I couldn't be happier. I am honestly quite satisfied with my guess distribution and will look to improve on it further.
See you tomorrow!
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