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.