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Another way to WORDLE - try to find a unique path and solve the puzzle with a Snowflake solution. [1]

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Date: 2022-12-23

My snowflake solution to WORDLE #552 - 460617 people solved today's WORDLE in 4 steps - but mine was a unique solution

There are dozens of WORDLE strategies out there, especially with regard to optimal opening words, along with a boodle of methods intended to optimize solutions in the fewest possible guesses or steps. Scientific strategizing seems to appeal to lots of WORDLE players but I’m just not all that interested in graph theory, information theory or statistical modeling at least when it comes to playing WORDLE. I just want to have fun solving the puzzle, hopefully in the fewest possible steps.

I came late to the game and have only solved 139 of the 140 most recent puzzles. I’ve always found the solution but on 7 occasions out of the 137 it has taken me all 6 tries (I somehow missed playing one day). Most days barring a blunder I am able to solve the puzzle in 3 or 4 steps. I find Wordle to be interesting and fun and look forward to playing each day, but most days it isn’t difficult. Today for example according to WordleBot 97% of players solved the puzzle by step 6 and 69% by step 4.

Since the addition of WordleBot back in April I’ve changed the way I play. WordleBot, the NYT daily WORDLE companion is available to NYT games subscribers —(and is a great reason to subscribe). The WordleBot analyzes your word choices compared to the editors play and to that of all of the other players and provides an analysis and score for each of your word choices with respect to your luck and skill as well as a comparison of the number of steps it took you with respect to the average of all players.

The other really provocative thing that WordleBot does is tell you at each word step exactly how many other players used the same words that you did in route to solving the puzzle.

That is where the fun begins for me. I’m still trying to solve the puzzle in a minimum number of guesses. I try to never use the same starting word and I’m always using every found letter in the next step’s word guess, but I’m now playing with a twist. I’m still trying with solve each puzzle in as few steps as possible — hopefully 3 or 4 steps, but also hoping to find a unique word path solution. According to WordleBot’s analysis and comparison of my solutions with more than 650,000 other players, so far this month I’ve accomplished a unique path to the WORDLE solution 9 times, including Puzzle #550 and again today. Curious to know if other players find the WordleBot useful and how often they have reached unique solutions.

Wordle #550 my 4 Snowflake Solution

WordleBot can be used in the way it was intended, to help you better understand and improve your strategy, but it also provides this fun twist to the game — it lets you know if you’ve found a unique solution. Should other players adopt this goal of solving WORDLE in 3 or 4 steps with a unique word path, it is sure to be more and more difficult to accomplish.

Members of this community have often disparagingly been referred to as ‘snowflakes’ — and in keeping with the current weather and before someone else tags my strategy this way — when I play WORDLE, I’m trying to find a ‘snowflake’ solution.

In case you need a last minute holiday gift idea — even one for yourself — I recommend a NYT Games subscription. At $40/year it provides hours of challenging fun with access to Wordle/WordleBot along with SpellingBee, LetterBox, TheMini Crossword, Sudoku, and more. www.nytimes.com/…

Hope you are all staying warm and enjoying your holiday weekend.

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