@sundancer – good to hear you’re finally sloshing some paint around. Next, you might even start to enjoy it!

Today’s request is for you nerds to help resolve an argument.
Well, truth be told, it won’t resolve anything, because my wife won’t take your word on anything, but for my own satisfaction (because I value your opinions far more highly than she does, I guess)…. the perfect Wordle score, it’s four, right?

She insists it’s three.
I maintain that three still leaves too much room for it to be a lucky guess.

Like, if you get it in one, it’s clearly a lucky guess.
Same goes for two – you might have eliminated a couple of options with the first guess but there’s no way you can go from “no idea what this could be” to “it can only be this word, and no other” (and if you did, it would surely be because of a lucky guess on the first go).

Now we get to the contentious bit – I regularly complete in three. But each time I do, I have to admit to myself that the answer *could* have been one of a number of options. Therefore, to complete is three is still a lucky guess. My wife insists otherwise (she completes on three very, very often).

Four is the perfect score, simply because it allows you an extra guess to eliminate the possibilities and know that the final word you enter is that one word and can be no other. It’s a bit like guessing at, or someone telling you, which number to put into a Suduko grid: the fun isn’t in having a grid of completed numbers – it’s in the process of knowing that each number can be only that number and no other. Same for Wordle. Completion in four is perfect.

Five is still an acceptable score. For me, there’s more satisfaction in completing in five than there is in three.
My wife vehemently disagrees.
What do you lot think?