I've spoken to a lot of people who say they take this "exploration" strategy, but I think it misses the human language element of deduction.
I've been playing Wordle for a while and while I'm no wordsmith, if you take an analytical strategy to word selection from line 2 onward it's never that difficult to get 3/6 (which I presume is the highest score attainable without significant luck).
English is one of the most irregular languages, with so many influences and variations, but it still has structure and common patterns. Once you have knowledge from a well selected exploratory 1st line, there's a lot you can deduct about potential variants in the word structure of the answer to make an informed 2nd line choice that'll be dual purpose: both being a good exploratory word and also a reasonably hopeful lucky guess.
Afterall, if you're aiming for 4/6 you're not really aiming very high.
100% agree. Wordle is not a hard game - it has a pleasing mix of luck and skill, and while all the theories and strategising are interesting, none of them are really necessary. I don't understand the "exploration" strategy at all - playing "hard mode" means every guess is a possible winner.
I've done about 30 now and my highest amount of guesses was 5 when I had the "ank" of CRANK and from there it was pure guessing as there were multiple, equally likely (as I understand it) possibilities.
My best score was 2 guesses and it felt like a very hollow victory - just a lucky guess, really. 3 feels like you've done some work and yeah, 4 feels average.
I've been playing Wordle for a while and while I'm no wordsmith, if you take an analytical strategy to word selection from line 2 onward it's never that difficult to get 3/6 (which I presume is the highest score attainable without significant luck).
English is one of the most irregular languages, with so many influences and variations, but it still has structure and common patterns. Once you have knowledge from a well selected exploratory 1st line, there's a lot you can deduct about potential variants in the word structure of the answer to make an informed 2nd line choice that'll be dual purpose: both being a good exploratory word and also a reasonably hopeful lucky guess.
Afterall, if you're aiming for 4/6 you're not really aiming very high.