Soare and Unity

Since I don't have any other material today, I will return to the two games that I play in the morning. Yes, you may roll your eyes, avert your gaze, and head to the next blog. I don't blame you. It's the dogdays of summer, and this is what I've got.

When Wordle became a thing, I tried it like everyone else. At that time, I decided that there was too much luck involved. Or maybe I should say, chance. For example, you could guess 4 letters out of 5, but just keep on choosing the wrong 5th latter because so many words could fit. So I gave it up for a time.

Then, everyone else in the extended family started posting their daily results in our family chat, so to be a part of it, I began to play and post again.

Now, most others, except for Shauna (usually), have dropped off, but I keep playing and posting.

I to use soare, which is an antiquated version of sore, as my start word. It's a good word with 3 vowels and 2 frequently used consonants. But it more often than not does not give me much. Below, you see that I only got one letter. Somewhat unusually, it was at least in the right place.

After awhile, for times like that when soare didn't yield much, I added a second start word, unity. It covers the rest of the vowels and two other frequent consonants. Of course, I still wouldn't know how many there were of e or i in the ↑ example, but I have at least eliminated 4 vowels and 4 consonants with my 2 starrer words.

Of course, my guess of midge from just 2 letters with the i even in the wrong place was just plain lucky. Essentially, my second word, unity, is often a throwaway because I ignore the results from soare. Even though it seems like a bit of a waste, using it like this usually gets me to the answer just as quickly as guessing random words that end in e would (in this case).

Since I am about to switch the narrative from describing Wordle to writing about Sudoku, this seems like a good time to ask what your beginning Wordle strategy might be. Assuming that you don't want to keep it as a deep secret, of course.

Since I have posted of Sudoku several times previously, I won't drag you through all of that again. But I will post of something that sometimes happens to me: something that I find very curious.

Let us say that I know that a 2 must go in a certain square. On rare occasions, and I do emphasize rare, I have found my finger is somehow poised to press the adjacent 3 key. My brain knows that I want to press that 2 key and not 3, but my finger is already heading toward the 3, and my brain can't call my finger back in time. So I press the flippin 3 instead of the 2.

It's not that this happens often, but since it has occurred twice recently, I though I would mention it on a day when I don't have any other topics surging through my puny brain.