Yeah, right. Frau G is going to a high school football game with one of her lady friends. Manatee High, my ol’ alma mater. I’m sitting home. I did my time watching boys run around when I was a soccer dad and Loinfruit was 8 years old.
This ad for TikTok just popped up on my IPad.
Heck, that’s not so clever. Here’s one that I just made up:
Speaking of my Wordle solution, last night I was playing. I put down my four special words:
twang, doers, filch, bumpy
And with two lines left, this is what I had:
_ a e r S
The S was the only letter in the right place. The possible solutions are:
raves rakes rares razes
So there were two guesses left and four possible solutions. So you see, my method is not entirely fool proof. BTW the answer was razes.
I just noticed that this post didn’t get published yesterday. Sorry. I have another post that will go online at 18:00 EDT
Does anybody play Wordle? If you do, I’m going to show you how to beat it almost every time. The secret to beating the game is not by guessing the letters. The best strategy is to eliminate letters. You eliminate as many letters as possible so at the end there are only a few possibilities. Now I used to use these five letter combinations: rates, filch, mound and gawky. But after you enter these four words there would still be seven letters that you haven’t tried. Lately I’ve used these words: doers, filch, bumpy and twang. It took me an hour or so to come up with them. These words all together use twenty distinct letters, so there are only six letters that I haven’t tried. Not only that, those six letters are v, k, j, x, q and z, the least frequently used in our language. Usually you will get all five letters, barring duplicates, in your first four words. Here’s a chart that I put together showing the relative frequency of letters as they appear in the English language, and the frequency of the of the letters in my trial words. The bottom entries are the sums of the frequencies:
To enhance your chances of winning your first entry would be the word doers (highest frequency of appearance) followed by twang, filch and bumpy. Notice that the remaining six letters have the lowest probability of appearing in the solution.
Now, of course, if you have five correct letters before using all four words, you stop there and work out the solution. But if you use all four trial words you still have two more trial words left use. Suppose you have two trial words left and there are three possible solutions. What you have to do is find words that use two of the possible letters. If one of them is correct, good. If neither is correct then the remaining solution is the one you want. Occasionally you might find a situation where there are, say, three possible solutions involving two letters. That’s happened to me, but I can’t recall the specific circumstances. You just have to be clever in the trial words that you choose.
In the worse case, and maybe, the only case wherein you might lose, is if you are left with four possible solutions with only two trial words left.
I know that some people may be concerned about the hurricane and wondering how the Grace domicile fared. No big deal. The eye was about a hundred miles offshore when it passed me. No problems at all. Almost. We had a lot of rain. Somehow the lid came off my tub where I kept my 50 pounds of dried organic fertilizer. It comes in little pellets kind of like hamster food. Well the tub containing the 50 pound bag of dried organic fertilizer was filled to the top with hurricane rain. It smells real bad. The flies like it.
Any suggestions of how to get rid of 50 pounds of rehydrated pig shit?
The storm is probably over by now.
There’s a storm coming, so I might be hors de combat for a few days. If you didn’t know, I live on the south side of Tampa Bay about a quarter mile from the water. But I’ll have a post every day. I’m loading them now.
Poor Uncle Sid is sick…
Sorry I’m a little late posting today. I was out entertaining the old folks at the old folks home. And, as Frau G reminded me, I’m the same age they are. Thanks F. G.
