Wordle 5 Killer B's
Braying another of my harebrained, praps boneheaded barbarian YAWPS - Yet Another Wordle-Playable Scheme.
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CONTENTS:
Intro
Inspired by a desire to somehow stick with my REMIT opener and yet join in with @Eye Are's 5-TU's scheme somehow, without cheating or tanking my game.
I was noodling around with the idea of "five twos" because the original inspiration was @Eye Are calling out how 2/22/2025 contains five 2s.
It occurred to me first that maybe I could play 5 of the same letter, instead of 5 pairs the same as she's calling for the one-shot theme. Then I thought, "well, B is the 2nd letter of the alphabet, so how about five B's?"
And of course the Wordle Bees and Killer Bees come buzzing right into my brain et VOILĂ€: the Wordle 5 Killer B's idea is born.
Exaggerating just a little for effect: B is a potential game-killer (especially if played 5 times!) since the letter B appears only in about 11.5% of the known potential solutions. It's a pretty terrible letter. https://rentry.co/wordle-letter-freq is a little out of date, but I checked and even with the added solutions since those were compiled, B frequency still rounds to 11.5% (268 of 2321 now vs. 266 of 2309 then).
To keep those killer B's concentrated I'm looking only at threepeaters and words with a double-B i.e. BB in them. I don't want to accidentally solve, so I intend to stay away from Not-Used known potential solutions (aka NU words), at least on step 2.
6 B Threepeaters
A quick check of https://rentry.co/all-wordle-triples and we have the six threepeaters (with the non-B letters pulled up front for easy referencing while playing).
AY BABBY+ like the A; good for dead- or green-E terminal Y checkIS BIBBSprobably not unless I is yellow in REMITOY BOBBYOy! it's NU!UA BUBBA+ like the AUE BUBBEprobably not unless E is yellow in REMITUY BUBBYif I need U; good for dead- or green-E terminal Y check
2 Double-B PU as of "today" (2025-02-17)
The BB column here: https://rentry.co/wordle-letter-pairs#2321-known-potential-solutions shows there are still 6 known potential solutions out there with a double-B in them (one of which has a third B as noted above too!).
AEY ABBEYHOY HOBBY
38 Double-B Non-solutions
AED ABBEDAES ABBESCOS COBBSCOY COBBYCUY CUBBYDEY DEBBYDIS DIBBSDOY DOBBYDUO DUBBODUY DUBBYFAO FABBOFAY FABBYFUY FUBBYGAY GABBYGOE GOBBEGOI GOBBIGOY GOBBYGUA GUBBAHUA HUBBAHUY HUBBYJIA JIBBAJIS JIBBSKIE KIBBEMOY MOBBYNAY NABBYNEY NEBBYNIY NIBBYNOY NOBBYNUY NUBBYPOY POBBYPUY PUBBYRIY RIBBYRUY RUBBYSLU SLUBBSUY SUBBYSYE SYBBETUY TUBBYWEY WEBBY
Thoughts on Playing
I think I'm not going to try to pre-plan but rather will follow the lead of what's revealed by REMIT and then by my step two choice.
I'm on the fence about whether step two should be a two-B or not two-B, Horatio. I can see it either way, so I may wait to decide when I play. Or put on a play to help me decide? Nah, terrible idea.
If the nearly-unthinkable happens and step 2 reveals that the solution has two B's in it, then maybe it's better if I've played the threepeater second, so I could go for the solve on three and still get the requisite 5 Killer B's into my game. That might be enough to decide me which way to go.