Wordle Postgame Report, February 16, 2023
GAMES OF SKILL AND CHANCE DEP'T.
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February 16, 2023, MAGIC, 4/6
PEOPLE WOULDN'T STOP talking about the new AI chat engine in Microsoft Bing, so I played BINGE for a yellow I and a yellow G. Having a G and an I without an N made things tricky already. I moved them around to make GRIST, to get more material for solving the puzzle. They stayed yellow. What positions would work? I got a pencil and started putting down the permutations: I-G-blank-blank-blank, I-blank-G-blank-blank... INGOT was out, thanks to the N and the T. I kept going. IGLOO would work, but would Wordle use IGLOO? Blank-blank-G-I-blank could be—LOGIC. A solution that made sense. I tried it. Gray on the L and O, green the rest of the way. Not my carefully worked-out LOGIC but something else. MAGIC.
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