NYT Wordle #1195: How I solved it

 

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Today, the 26th of September 2024, is game 1195 of NYT Wordle. I try to solve this daily and have completed 354 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 resulted into:

After the first guess:

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Pretty good. Let's put together a few sets of possibilities with the information received:

 

🅣✖🅐✖✖:

1. Toast
2. Twang
3. Thank

Twang seems unlikely, yet if I go with 'Toast', I will be 2 options if the answer isn't it. 'Thank' makes more logical sense, as it would eliminate 'Twang' as well. 

So let's go with 'Thank'.

After the second guess:

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Wordlebot says even 'Toady' and 'Twain' were possible answers. Even then, I think I made the right choice by going with 'Thank'. 99/99 on skill, so I suppose my analysis was fine. 

My 34th 2/6 in 355 games, not bad! Average guesses now 3.262. It has suffered in the last couple of weeks, but I intend to get it down. 

See you tomorrow!