{"id":336192,"date":"2025-12-09T11:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/uncategorized\/the-map-hopper-nyt-wordle-1197-how-i-solved-it\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T11:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T11:01:40","slug":"the-map-hopper-nyt-wordle-1197-how-i-solved-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=336192","title":{"rendered":"The map hopper: NYT Wordle #1197: How I solved it"},"content":{"rendered":"


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<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Today, the 28th of September 2024, is game 1197 of NYT Wordle. I try to solve this daily and have completed 356 of these over the last couple of years. So here is my Wordle journey for today, which includes my guesses, thought process, some statistics, and, of course, the ANSWER!<\/span><\/p>\n

I always start my Wordle with ‘Trace<\/b>‘. Let’s see what that resulted into:<\/span><\/p>\n

After the first guess:<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2b1b<\/span>\ud83d\udfe9<\/span>\ud83d\udfe9<\/span>\u2b1b<\/span>\u2b1b<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Alright, so we got letters 2 and 3. With this, I know that the first letter can only be W, P, D, F, G, K, B, or a vowel.\u00a0Let’s put together a few sets of possibilities with this information:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udd66\ud83c\udd61\ud83c\udd50<\/span>\u2716<\/span>\u2716<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

–<\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udd5f\ud83c\udd61\ud83c\udd50<\/span>\u2716<\/span>\u2716<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1. Prank<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Prawn<\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udd53\ud83c\udd61\ud83c\udd50<\/span>\u2716<\/span>\u2716<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

3. Drawn<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Drain<\/span><\/p>\n

5. Drawl<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Drank<\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udd55\ud83c\udd61\ud83c\udd50<\/span>\u2716<\/span>\u2716<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

7. Frail<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

8. Frank<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udd56\ud83c\udd61\ud83c\udd50<\/span>\u2716<\/span>\u2716<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

9. Grand<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

10. Grail<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

11. Grass<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

12. Gravy<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udd5a\ud83c\udd61\ud83c\udd50<\/span>\u2716<\/span>\u2716<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

–<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udd71\ud83c\udd61\ud83c\udd50<\/span>\u2716<\/span>\u2716<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

13. Brand<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

14. Brass<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

15. Brash<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

16. Brain<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

17. Brawn<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

18. Braid<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

19. Bravo<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(Vowel)<\/b>\ud83c\udd61\ud83c\udd50<\/span>\u2716<\/span>\u2716<\/span>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

–<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike other occasions, I feel that the list of words I put together today should contain at least 80-90% of total possible answers. So let’s analyze:
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