A-Z Challenge 2025 ~ Extra ~ Stats

This year I took an easy way out. Each day I solved the Wordle of the day, using as starter a word beginning with the letter of the day.

As the alternative badge, as supplied by Lissa seems to suggest growing things I tried to find growing things of the stattionary type to use as starter words, and if at all possible, I'll avoid words containing the same letter more than once. I mostly suceeded.

And as I cannot keep my mouth shut, or in the case of blogging, keep my fingers grom the keyboard, I added a few words and sometimes more about my chosen starter word.

Now how did I do?

STATS.  Looking through my earlier Wordle stats - those I have - tells me that for 26 Wordles I typically get:
4 tries 9 times,
5 tries 6 times.
6 tries 5 times.
Fail 3 times and
3 tries 3 times.
And how was April:

April is a bit skewed - maybe not even statistically significantly so - with less 4 tries solutions. I blame the forced starter words, that often cost me a guess.

Stats ~ Blogging and visiting
I know there'll be a dedicated reflections post for this later on, but I'll do a bit now, when my mind is still on the challenge.

Blogs visited: I visited - or should I say tried to visit - all the 172 participating blogs on the master list. I did not comment on all of them. I repeat - slightly edited - from my sign up post:

Last year I spent far too much time trying to comment on blogs that required a log in, wading through posts not touching on the A-Z at all or where I had to "fight" to get to the posts ... to the detriment of my visiting blogs that were interesting or were following the guidelines. This year I am not going to revisit non-participants or those that requires a large amount of blogging gymnastics to find the A-Z posts.
Blogs that does not speak to me from either a graphical or a contents point of view, I won't revisit either. What are those?

Graphical: white-on-black (or similar), or blogs with pop-ups, or with moving osciliating, shimmering or dancing objects.
Contents: pure self promotions, economics/business, mental health, most sports, politics, adult contents, or just too much kissing, cosmetics, most animals, most -isms, and more

As my mother tried to teach me: If you can say nothing nice, you can at least say nothing.
I tried to follow these guidelines, but I had a tough time of it for three reasons:

Non-participants: This year again too many blogs were not participating. Of the 171 signed up no less than 20 did either not exist, or did not participate. This is over 11 % of the blogs, or more than one in ten.
Broken links: A couple of bloggers had supplied a link that did not work.
Bloggers giving up: Also, quite a bit gave up after two or five letters, many of these were even blogs I found interesting. A huge demotivation factor for me.

On the positive side I found none that required me to log in to disqus or similar forums this year.

I do not know what, if anything, can be done about this. The team visits all blogs at least once I know. Could they maybe in some way mark those "defective" ones on the master list so as not to waste loads of time for all the rest of us?

 All in all I found some interesting new blogs, I found many that did not interest me in the least, I found a few I am going to include into my blogroll. And I'm still not done reading and commenting.

As STATS is actually a five letter word, I tried to solve Wordle with that one as a starter today.

Rounding off the month with a Great. Hm, I could have done better eating my own medicine and using pen and paper after the three first guesses.