I open the app and wonder what my first guess for today will be. First word that pops into my head is LOOPY. I don't like it because it has a double "O" and using doubles doesn't give you a lot of information in narrowing down what the word is. I'm not in this to get that one in a million first guess win, so I pass. Thinking about odds, leads me to STAKE, I'm about to guess it, but I feel like a lot of my initial words have A&E in those positions, luckily, STEAK is right there and STEAK is also delicious. STEAK it is.
I get yellow blocks for the first three letters. I start thinking where I should go next. PESTS jumps to mind. I recall that the original word list for Wordle excluded plurals, so I don't want to do it. I have no idea if the NYT added plurals when they bought the game. Whether they did or not, I swap out the final S for a Y and submit PESTY. This gets me green boxes for the E and S, but still a yellow box for T.
So I now I have to decide whether T is at the start of the word or at the end. I want to type in DESPOT, but that's too long. Unfortunately, just thinking about it derails me for a bit, and all I can think about are six-letter words. I get back on track with TESLA. Which doesn't help because it's a proper noun (either as the man or the company). Sure, there are Tesla coils, but I don't think that makes Tesla a common noun. I'm stuck and getting nowhere. I decide to throw T at the end and try to fill in the rest around it. I think -ES-T. Man, I want to type resist, but its too long. I take out that second S and I get RESIT. Is that a word? Screw it. I'm guessing it. Worst case, I get the "not a word" notification or whatever it says. RESIT is a word! RESIT is not the word I'm looking for!
But I know T is at the end of the word. I noodle around a bit and type in BESOT. Is that a word? Is anything a word anymore? It feels like an old word. But it also feels made up. But I just pulled RESIT out of nowhere. BESOT it is. Nope. I get four green squares and it's obvious that the correct word is BESET. I briefly wonder if I could have gotten BESET if I hadn't gotten carried away.
So there was a double letter in the answer, but that's not going to pull me away from my anti-double bias in the early guesses. I'm glad I moved E forward after the first guess. I do wonder if this would have been easier or harder If I got E as the fourth letter. I think I would have gotten to BESET faster, but I don't think I would have gotten a word with E in the fourth slot as quickly as I came up with PESTY as my second guess. It probably would have been a harder wordle in that case. I don't know. Maybe multiverse Adrian can leave a comment and let me know it went for him.
The streak is up to 52.
Wordle 648 5/6
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