Weekend Catchup: Alexander Does Not Weep

I didn't screenshot my Wordle yesterday, so I don't remember the details of my solve. But I did get CEDAR to extend my streak to 17. I think I got in four, but memory is faulty, and I can't be sure about that.

This isn't really a weekend catchup, since I'm doing Sunday's puzzle right now. Thinking of CEDAR, I open with PLANK. I get greens for the first three letters and for a brief moment, I think I'm about to solve in one at which point I can retire because there is nothing left to accomplish. Alas, I do not solve it in one guess, and you (is there an audience?) are stuck with me. I try PLATE and get no new correct letters. Now I stop and think about this because I really want to get a solve in three. Let's see, there's PLAID, PLAIT, um... PLATO? Wow, I can't really think of anything beyond those words. I go with PLAID for my third guess. And it's wrong.

And I need to think of something else for my fourth guess. I'm guessing there is a double A at this point. Would PLAYA work? That's beach in Spanish, but has probably crossed over to English. PLAYA is accepted, but it's not the answer. I was right about the second A, though. 

Okay, I just have to go through my available letters to find this answer. I start at the bottom row working from right to left. PLAMA? No. PLABA? No. PLAVA? PLACA? PLAXA? PLAZA?!? Ah yes, PLAZA! I do a quick check of the other available letters and don't see anything that would fit. It better be PLAZA. And it is. 

PLAZA is a really cool answer. I'm a bit disappointed in my solve, though, because I was fishing for two letters the whole time. Man, I feel like I should've gotten there faster, but looking back at my process, the only real downfall was PLAYA over PLAZA. Oh well, the streak is up to 18. 

Wordle 678: Close but No Cigar

It's a RAINY day here, so I want to use that as my opener and try to find some link between my day-to-day experiences and something that is consumed by millions of people. Really looking for a horoscope angle on this. Wait, I have a theory that every answer is going to have O in it this week. So I don't guess RAINY and pivot to MOIST instead. Both my O-themed theory and my horoscope-based hope that my personal experiences tie into this game are dashed as the O turns up gray and the I is yellow. 

I want to see if the I is at the front of the word. My first instinct was to go with IRATE, but I know that's wrong because of the T from my first guess. IMAGE pops to mind, but again, it would be wrong. INFER, however, is a word that will work. The I and R are yellow. I really like finding the first letter because I think it helps narrow my guesses down, so I throw the R upfront. RAJIN? Like a RAJIN cajun, no, that's not a word, but it does lead me to RABID for my third guess. Which gets me another yellow letter for A.

Man, I should've gone with RAINY for my first guess and saved myself a lot of time. Maybe Wordle is like the horoscope. I play around with the letters that I know. I see TRIAL, but that can't work. Same for FRAIL. Pillar has six letters, but apparently PILAR is is a word, which confirms the I in the second letter. That was both good and bad since it got me something in green, but the R was wasted. Oops. I play with letters and just type in GIRKA as filler, which leads me to CIRCA, which is today's answer.

Good puzzle. On the one hand, my fourth guess was a waste, but it did lead me to the answer, however, I was already leaning towards I in the second position. I think I would've gotten there eventually. I wonder how my gameplay would've been different if I had gone with RAINY, maybe I could've had a solve in two or three? Who knows? My streak is up to 16 as we head into the weekend. See you (someone? anyone? Bueller?) on Sunday for a weekend catch up.

Wordle 677: Not Half Bad

Starting with POINT today. I get a green box for O and yellow I. Hey, every answer since Monday has had an O. How about that? I don't know what to do with this I. It can't go at the front, so it's somewhere in the back of the word.

I'm trying to find something to put first so I can build some words. I struggle a bit, I want to use sordid, but too long. the id ending does get me to COVID, but I don't think that can be the answer, can it? I do like the -OVI-, is there something else I can use? I think about it and get MOVIE for my second guess. I'm super confident that I've got this answer in two. But nope. I do have the right spots for the O and the I, though.

Damn. My backup guess for MOVIE was MOXIE; that's stuck in my head. I pivot to TOXIC, but I used the T in the my first guess, so I'm a bit adrift. The IC ending looks promising, but how to get there? COLIC, is that how it's spelled? That is how it's spelled, but it's not the right answer, and I can see that it is going to be LOGIC. 

Not bad, but a bit of a bummer to solve in four when I was positive that I had it in two. My streak is now up to 15. I hope tomorrow's answer is going to have an O in it to give us a whole week of O words. Again, I'm not sure if that is intentional or not, or if anyone else notices, but it's something to ponder.  

Wordle 676: The Truth is Out There

POISE is going to be my opening guess today. I get yellows for O and E. Isn't that how yesterday started? Since yesterday's puzzle was a tough one, my second guess is DEMON. I get a green for E, and yellow for M and O. Hmm. I don't think I've found the first letter on this one. The only OE word I can think of Oenophile, which is way too long. Oedipus, but again, way too long and also a name. ME opens up some possibilities, but my brain locks up because I see MEOW and now it's all I can think about. Too short, I can't use the S, does MEOWY count as a word? I gotta get off this train of thought.

I start looking at the O. I assume it's either third or fifth. I put it at the end with M. I like the way the MO looks at the end, but can't think of anything to do with it. I play around with ME at the start. I have to put O at the end to avoid the MEOW stuff again. MELLO. But the only time I think it's been spelled that was a for Mello Yello, so that's not something I'm going to submit. I noodle around and get METRO. That feels good. And it's the right answer.

I liked today's puzzle, but find it kind of strange that E and O have been in both answers so far. This reminds me off a few weeks back when there were like 3 days in a row with U. There probably isn't a pattern or hidden message to the answers. Wait? Is there a hidden message in Wordle answers. No, probably not. But, maybe... Further investigation is warranted. 

Wordle 675: Let's make some lemonade

The initial problem that I have with moving away from my A/E opening guess is that I'm having trouble coming up with alternatives. It's not that I don't know other words, it's just that it's different form the routine. I just have to rewire my thinking, I guess. TROUT and TROOP come to mind, but I don't want a repeating letter in my first guess. I ponder it for a moment, and then LEMON pops to mind. Let's do it. Okay,  the E and O are yellow, so I've got something to work with.

EPOXY is my next guess. It is kind of a stupid guess, but I want to find where these letters go. When that fails to give me much to work with, I decide to try some common letters to figure this out. OTHER feels like a good guess. Okay, The O is yellow and ER are at the end. I actually know where all three of my letters go based on my other O guesses. So I've got -O-ER. Looking at my letters, the two options that pop out at me are GOFER and COVER. I don't know that GOFER is a word. Like it's used in common parlance, but doesn't it have a hyphen? Or maybe it's been shortened to one word. I don't know. COVER it is. COVER is not the answer.

I'm not guessing GOFER. Suddenly that W looks pretty interesting. I wonder if ROWER or SOWER could be the answer. ROWER doesn't feel right. I'm getting close to running out of guesses, so I'm definitely second guessing myself here. I rip off the bandage and go with SOWER, which is incorrect. 

Shoot down to my last guess. ROGER feels like a possibility as in roger that. JOKER is a possibility. Darn, I just feel like anything I throw in here is going to be a guess. I didn't do a good enough job eliminating letters with my earlier guesses. Screw it, let's go with JOKER and see what happens. Phew, indeed. I get this on my last guess.

I wonder if today's puzzle ended people's streaks. It's not particularly hard, but if you get to the solve the same way I did, there are multiple words that could fit in for your final guess. I don't really rate these things, but today's was definitely a simple, yet challenging puzzle.

Wordle 674 and Weekend catchup

Got both answers for the weekend. I liked Saturday's puzzle that ended with BROKE. I solved in four, but made a stupid error by wasting my third guess when I moved the R out of the second spot even though I already had the R as green from my previous guess. Oops. Sunday's UNZIP was a tough one, with the unusual letter Z in the middle throwing everything off. I was able to work my way to the answer by getting the UN prefix and working from there. I solved it in five, but again made the silly error of moving around letters that I already had as green and wasting a guess. I'll blame making that mistake twice in a row on my weekend brain. 

One thing that stuck me as I was reading the NYT Games Wordle Review was that one of the recent authors was dismayed that A/E was a combination for an answer. The general point was that there are a whole lot of A/E words and the reviewer didn't think it helped to get to the solution. I don't know that I fully agree, but I do find that when A or E isn't in the answer, I take longer to solve the puzzle. Nothing bogs down my train of thought like staring at the screen wishing I could use an A/E word, but knowing it won't work. It's like trying to not think about elephants when someone says elephants. The point is I'm rethinking the efficacy of opening with an A/E word since I know I can circle back to those letters in subsequent guesses.

I open with CLOUD as my first guess today. I get yellows for O and D. Hmm, now I need to decide I go hunting for a second vowel or for the locations of the two letters I have in hand. I decide to work with the O and D and type in ROWDY for my second guess. This is a swing for the fences guess in that two of three new letters aren't really going to be helpful in terms of eliminating letters for subsequent guesses, but the R is a good letter and I want to find the locations of O and D. Besides, all my ROWDY friends are here for Monday, um, afternoon. That works? Maybe?

Okay, not the answer, no new letters, still don't know where O and D go. I want to D first, and realize DOWRY probably would've been better than ROWDY, but the former MNF theme song swayed me into the ROWDY guess. If I put D up front, I have to have O in either the fourth or fifth spot. This gives me some options: DEPOT and DIVOT stand out. I decide to deploy the E since it's the more common letter and guess DEPOT.

Wow, D is the first letter, T is in the word, and O must be at the end. Could it be DITTO? That's the only thing I can think of that fits what I've found so far. C'mon, Swayze, don't let me down. DITTO is correct because the chemistry of Swayze and Moore can't be denied.  

Wordle 671: Tough One Today

 I'm starting with SHEAR today because I saw a popup ad for Shear Madness at the Kennedy Center. I saw it once as a kid when family was visiting us like 20 years ago. Maybe it's time to drive into DC and see it again. As a Wordle guess today, SHEAR was less than ideal. The A is green, but everything else was wrong.

To get to my second guess, I'm thinking about what the last letter could be. I want to end with AD, but that doesn't make much sense. AL is a bit more promising. USUAL pops into my head, but can't be right due to the S. I land on VITAL, which has the added bonus of having a T, so I'm knocking out more common letters with this guess. And then everything turns up gray.

Wow.

I need to find the other vowel in this word. I briefly consider that it may have two A's, but nah. I look at my available letters and see that the word could end with MAN. HUMAN is out, so my third guess is WOMAN. I'm very confident in this guess. Then I get the same result. No correct guesses. Damn.

This is not good. So now I'm looking at the U and wondering where and if it's part of this answer. Spending time with U leads me to Q and I see that all the letters for QUACK are available, but I know that's wrong. I play with AQUA, but can't figure out what the other letter would be or go. Wow, I'm really stumped. I'm more amazed that I don't have any other letters beside the A. I had a run of answers like this the other day, and I'm kind of amazed that having a run of guesses like this is possible. Especially since I've guessed letters that are common, with the exception of the V for VITAL, these are all letters that are used often. 

CUPAD? Is that a word? It would be Cupid's house or something? No. Not a word. Wow. I'm really stumped. To make a groan-worthy pun, I'm at a loss for words. I've seen SQUAD, but that can't be right because S has been eliminated. I've got nowhere else to go, I'm going to have to waste a guess on SQUAD just to see what other letters there are in this word.

And everything is gray! WTF! I was looking at CABAL as a guess, but the L is gone. But this is a word with two As. I'm not going to waste a guess this late in the game, but I have to assume -A-A- is the structure of the word. Unless Y is the other vowel? I'm typing in letters to see if something looks like a word and accidently submit PACAY as my fifth guess. I confirm the second (or first) A and also find out that Y is in the word.

Now I'm even more confused. KAYAK. It has to be KAYAK.

This was a tough puzzle that took me a lot longer than I'd like to admit. When I was stumped after WOMAN, I was certain I would hate this puzzle, but looking back on it, I have an odd respect for it. I think this was a gimmick puzzle, but I respect it. Two double letters?!? C'mon! But I figured it out despite my struggle, so a hat tip to Wordle today. 

Wordle 670: Quick and Easy

I decide to start today with CLOSE. I don't really have a reasoning or a justification for this, but let's see what happens. All right, two letters are green: the L and the E. With the L in that spot, I feel like P has to be the first letter. A couple of other consonants could work, as could any vowel, I suppose, but my mind goes immediately to a PL start for the word. I quickly type in PLANE for my second guess and see the P, L, and A turn over green. Could this be a solve in two?!? Could it?!?

No.

The N is gray. Damn. So close. I want to quickly type in PLATE and call it a day, but something in the back of my mind tells me to slow down and take a beat to think about it. I do a scan of the remaining letters to see if anything else works. The only thing I'm seeing that could've worked was PLACE, but we know that is wrong from the first guess. So PLATE it is. 

Feels good to get a quick solve. But a part of me can't help but wonder how great it would've been to get the solve in two guesses. 

Streak is up 8 at the moment. 

Wordle 669: What is the point of this game?

I'm still wondering whether yesterday's puzzle was easy or hard. Especially when I look at yesterday's NYT Wordle review and see that 15% of users on the WordleBot did not solve it. I can see if you landed on OUND late and were stuck deciding between H/F/B/W for the first letter, but I feel like you would've eliminated letters in there. Another interesting point brought up in the review was the author's feeling that the point of the game was to try to get the answer in one guess. I just can't agree with that reasoning because getting it in one is just dumb luck. To me, the point is to get the answer in four. I feel like I've seen that in enough of the reviews to feel that there is a consensus around that idea. I also recall seeing someone on Twitter mention that 4 should be par and everything is plus or minus relative to that. I really like that idea. For the record, I'm 34 over par, which: not great, Bob.

Anyway, moving to today's puzzle, I get back to my usual strategy of an A/E word and go with SHARE. The H is green, but nothing else is. Now I'm torn on which letter to put in front of H. I'm deciding between C/T/W. I go C and guess CHUNK. My guess for C is wrong, but I chose the correct vowel and now have HU in green. Once I see that, the only thing that pops into my mind is THUMP. I hesitate for a bit because I feel like I should try to see if there are other vowels in the word or not. Ultimately, I just can't find anything that would fit, so THUMP it is for guess three. 

THUMP is correct. So I get it in three and feel really good. Again, today felt like a relatively easy puzzle, but I fully concede that I got a bit lucky by going with SHARE for my first guess instead of a similar word like TRACE. But I feel good about it. My streak is up to 7 and I got my cumulative par score down to +33.

Wordle 668: Is it Easy or Hard?

I want to get today's Wordle started with something outside of my usual, so I decide to open with BELOW, which maybe isn't the strongest opener with that W, but what the hell, why not? The W is not in the answer, but the O is yellow, so I've got something to work with. I go with an even more off the wall guess for word two and use PRODS. I get another yellow for D, and know that I need to start finding some other vowels for this word. 

I throw the DO at the front and DOUGH comes out pretty quickly. I get a good hit with that guess. The O and U are in the right spot, and the D and H are both yellow. So I know where the O, U, and D go. HOUND seems to be the answer based on that information. Or at least it is the first word that pops into mind. Sure enough, HOUND is correct, and my streak is now at 6. Today's puzzle was pretty easy, as I was able to solve it relatively quickly even with the possibly ill-advised opening guesses. 

It's days like this where I am not sure if there is strategy to make this game easier or if the difficulty or ease of the game comes down to luck. I mean, I started with a two vowel word, which I think is a necessity for this game. But how much did going with an E/O word help me as opposed to my preferred opening guess of an A/E word? All I know is that I wanted to use a word that did not have E at the end of it like I usually do. I felt that today's puzzle was easy, but if I had gone with BRAKE or TRADE, would I still feel that way? I don't know, and I guess that's part of what makes Wordle so addicting. You can only go down the solving path that you go down even though there are many potential alternate paths you could've taken. 

Wordle 667 and weekend catch up

Back to the blog after the weekend. I think going forward, I'll do the Friday post and then a weekend catch up. I didn't post this Friday, but that's the plan from here out. If I write it down, that will hold me to it. I got all three days to run my currently modest streak up to 4. I don't recall Friday's puzzle, but Saturday's solution of AGONY was quite anything but; I was able to solve in three, which is always a good feeling. Sunday's puzzle was a struggle. I got the last three letters of the answer, but had no idea what to start the word with. I did a lot of guessing before getting to DWELT on my fifth guess. But there was a long period of time where I was convinced that the boxes were lying to me about what letters were correct and incorrect.

Today's puzzle was not super fun, although I was able to solve in four. I only had the middle letter I in my first three guesses. I did not think doing something like that was even possible. I opened with PRICE. With that I in the middle and E eliminated, I figured that the second vowel for the word would be next to the I. Trying to get a second vowel in the word led to my guess of LOINS since it was the first word that came to mind with the OI combination. When that did not yield and positive results, I quickly moved to AMITY, which again did not give me any new letters.

So now I was truly stumped. I couldn't get to a real guess. I wanted BUILD or GUILD, but the L was already eliminated in my second guess. I didn't have a next place to go with my guesses and briefly considered walking away for a bit to let my mind reset. Sometimes, I find that helps, but I kept the app open and started looking through my available letters for any combinations that could go together. I got WH, but I didn't know what to do with it since answers like WHITE or WHICH couldn't be correct. I stuck with it and submitted WHIFF for my fourth guess, expecting it to be a total whiff, but to my delight, all five blocks turned over green. A tough word, and a puzzle that I feel good about as I reflect back on my solving experience. Granted, my feeling toward it is biased by the result. Anyways, I think the blocks look pretty cool, so I'm including with today's post. The streak is now at 5 days.

Wordle 667 4/6

Wordle 683: Getting back on track

After yesterday's debacle, I want to get a new streak going. I really did not like yesterday's puzzle and not just because I didn't get it. It just felt like a gotcha game. I don't know, it just didn't feel fair. Enough about yesterday. On to today. I type in PAUSE, but for some reason decide to switch out the P for a C. CAUSE, which is a word I frequently misspell. Seriously, AU/UA just trips me up. Gaurd and cuase are consistent misspellings of mine. I don't know if hyper-acute dyslexia is a thing or not, but if it is, I have it.

Getting back on track, CAUSE gets me green squares on the first two letters. Having the S be gray cuts off a lot of verbs, which probably would have been where I went next. Since that's out, I search around from something else that could work and land on CANON, which is incorrect. On the hand, this may have been a poor guess since I repeated the N, but it did help me eliminate a vowel and a very common letter in N. Now I'm kind of stuck in a dilemma. The only vowels remaining are I or a repeated A. I have to use one of those or guess a word that is four consonants with only the A as a vowel. I suppose Y is an option, but at this point, it feels like it would only work at the end of the word, and that feels off to me.

I go with A being the only vowel for now and guess CATCH. Hmm, the T turns up yellow. If T is in the fourth spot, the last letter would have to be Y last and CAPTY/CARTY still don't feel like real words to me. So maybe T is at the end. I briefly fiddle around with the LT and RT endings, but I'm not finding anything that looks like a word given what I already know, especially if I try to get I involved as a second vowel in the word. This turns my attention the possibility of A being in the word twice and I get to CARAT. That feels like a good guess. And it is the right one. CARAT in four.

Today's puzzle leaves me feeling a lot better than yesterday's. There were common letters that people could get to, but the double A gives it some challenge. I could also see some people have the carat/karat complaint, which I'm not going to get into, but it seems more fair than BORAX yesterday. Spoiler: I'm probably going to stew over that one for a while.

Wordle 662: No me gusta

 I start with PULSE to see if three is something going on with all the U's lately. Everything is gray. I guess it was all just a weird coincidence. I really hate when a first guess gives you nothing, it is such an odd feeling of being adrift. Oh well, since I like to start with getting some vowels on the board, I briefly consider AXIOM, but I don't like having the X in there, so I shift over to DRAIN as my second guess. I can figure out if there is an O in this word or not later. R and A are yellow, with everything else being gray. So I've got somewhere to go.

Now I have to decide if I think this word has just one vowel or two. I briefly consider just going with only A and trying to eliminate consonants, but that feels a bit too much like shooting in the dark to me. So I fiddle around for a bit until I land on CARGO as word that will help me determine where to go with my next guess. Ok, I get a green for the R and yellows for A and O. 

I want to guess MORAL, but I know the L is wrong. I need to figure out where the A goes. When I put A in the first position, I think ARROW, but again, I know an R can't be in that spot. I can't think of what I would put as the second letter if A at the start, so I return to having -ORA- and working out from there. BORAT is "nice!", but won't be accepted as a guess. FORAY ends up being my fourth guess, and I get green boxes for the ORA in the middle.

So now I've just got to figure out the first and last letter. This isn't a position that I like being in, since I'm essentially guessing at this point. I wonder if is spelled TORAH or TORRAH? I also wonder if there is there is repeating letter I should be using. I'm getting nowhere, so I go with TORAH. Unsurprisingly, that is not correct. Now I'm really stumped. I don't see what the answer can be. I'm thinking about just typing and seeing what gets accepted. I don't know. My final guess JORAM which is wrong and was, honestly, the first random collection of letters I could come up with that was accepted.

The answer was BORAX which is a type of salt. I feel less bad because this is not a common word. Oh well. My streak was only at 6 due to having not played last week. Not a fan on today's Wordle, but maybe that's just sour grapes on my part. Streak starts again tomorrow.

Wordle 661:

 All right. Getting back on track with consistent blog posts. I want to switch it up with my opening guess, and try to think of a good word with three vowels. I am cognizant of the fact that U has been in the answer the last couple of days and get carried away with that notion. I end up guessing SAUCE instead of the more interesting choice: suave. Look, I'm going out on a limb with the U, I can't double down on exotic letters with a V as well. Whoa, we're going to have U in the answer again as the A and the U both turn up yellow. Everything else is a miss.

My initial thought is to go with the UN prefix for my next guess. I kind of struggle to think of where to put the A and land on UNHAT. UNHAT? Does that mean to take someone's hat off? "Unhat me, sir!" That can't be right, can it? It's a word, but it doesn't give me any more letters. My next guess is ALOUD. Maybe there are more vowels in this puzzle. The O stays gray, but the L is yellow. So I've got three letters, but I still don't know where any of the go in the final word.

I want to guess LAUGH, but I know that isn't right based on my SAUCE guess. I know the U is either the second or the last letter. Of the top of my head, placing it second makes more sense than last. That locks me into have the A either third or last. I end up on VULVA as a guess. Could that be it? Seems a little risqué for WORDLE, but it is a body part. Okay, I finally get a green box for the U. And by process of elimination, I know the A is the third letter. Wow. Guessing SUAVE first would've saved me a lot of time and frustration.

I don't know what to do with this L and I'm starting to get the real feeling that I'm about to take an L on this. I have two guesses left and no idea what to do. I'm typing different letters in the first box, just trying to see if anything gets my mind going. Nothing is making sense. Finally, I put Q in the first box. QUA--. But what to do with that L? QUAIL? Is that how you spell it? I'm not a bird person. I honestly don't know. I get green boxes! But I don't get it right.

So I've got my last guess and I'm staring at QUAL-. Looking at me available letters, the only thing I can see is QUALM.  

Everything else would seem made up QUALY? Nope. QUALA would just be a crazy misspelling of KOALA. QUALK? Is that an offshoot of CAULK? QUALE? No, none of this makes any sense. I'm going with QUALM and I have no qualms about it. I get five green boxes on my final guess. Phew, indeed. 

I would imagine that today's puzzle is going to trip people up. Uncommon letters in a word that is not used frequently will probably trip people up. But this was a great example of a puzzle that is both challenging and fun once you land on it. Looking back on it, I was in the right direction with my thinking, but just off by a few degrees, which led me to going the distance before figuring out QUALM.

New Beginnings

 Well, this blog has gotten off to a rocky start. I had gotten my streak up to 58, but then totally forgot to play Wordle last Wednesday and my streak was broken. I also missed a lot of posts, and there really isn't a point in publishing my thoughts on puzzles from last week at this point. But I did enjoy that SNAFU was yesterday's answer.

Well, new beginnings. My streak is currently sitting at 4 since I started over on Thursday. I open today's game with PLATE which only yields a yellow square for the E. Even though  I don't like guessing a repeating letter early in the game, I decide to go with MESSY for my second guess. I should've stuck to my guns and not guessed it since every letter is wrong again with the exception of the E. So now I've got to figure out where this E is going. 

With only the E, I decide I need to nail the location of this letter down on my next guess so I can start moving forward. I try putting E at the front, but with the letters that I have eliminated so far, I'm not able to come up with anything I like as a guess. I decide to put E in the third position and type in GRE. At this point I realize I could go with GREED or GREEN as a guess and figure out the E goes. I'm not a fan of guessing another repeating letter, but I need to make some forward movement on this, so I decide to go with GREEN. It is spring, so that makes sense. Okay, that gets me the a green box for the E on the fourth spot and yellows for the R and the N. I decide to guess DINER for my fourth guess which gives me an R at the end of the word and yellows for N and D.

The solution for this has to be UNDER, right? Yep, that's the solution. Under is a fun and fair word, I think. It's tough because I don't think many people are throwing U's into their guesses, but we've had two days in a row where U was in the solution. But it's plenty fair because all the other letters are common guesses.   

Weekend Catch-Up Post

 I did it. I got my streak up to 56. Suck on that, DiMaggio. I also forgot to post any updates. Win some, lose some. 

Friday was a tough one. Took me five tries. I don’t have my notebook with me, so I don’t remember my guesses, but I know it was one I struggled with. Saturday, I was sitting on 54 wins, so I opened with DISCO. Kind of silly to think that wordle would know I was on a disco themed number, but it did give me the C in the fourth position. From there, I was able to get to MARCH in four guesses.

Sunday’s puzzle was completed in three guesses. Does that mean I’ll get today in two? No. Probably not, but maybe….