Lots to catch up on in this post. I blame the Memorial Day long weekend. My last post was Thursday's puzzle, so let's do a quick recap of the last few days. Friday, the answer was SWINE. I don't recall my path to getting that answer, but I think I got there in four guesses. Loved SWINE as an answer, just a really solid word that is unexpected yet also pretty common, I guess. Also, we got a W in the answer, so that's pretty cool.
Saturday, I did take a screen shot of my solve, and I got RAMEN in three. This was a maybe a bit of luck on my solve. I went with SPLAT as my first guess then AMEND as guess number two. I did make a decision to put A at the front, which got me yellow tiles for the first four letters. At that point, it was just a matter of shifting everything over a space and plugging in the R.
Sunday, I did not screen shot, but I did get SKIMP as the answer. I honestly have no recollection of how many guesses it took.
Yesterday was a tough one for me even though I solved it in four. I opened with TRASH and got a green S. Building off that, I went with CLOSE, giving me the last two letters and a yellow O. Guess number three was OBESE because at this point I figured there would be three vowels in the answer. Since the O wasn't green, I now knew the location of the O. So my fourth guess was down to either HOUSE, MOUSE, or LOUSE. And since the L and H were eliminated. I got MOUSE in four. I consider this a tough one since it pretty much flies in the face of my strategy of looking for consonants. But I got there.
Today (Tuesday) I again opened with TRASH. This was completely accidental. I like to mix my opening words up and didn't realize I used it Monday. I got all gray tiles on the guess, which was a bit of a bummer, but I deserve that for repeating my opening guess. My second guess was LUNGE, which gave me yellow tiles for L, N, and E. This was good because it gave me letters to play with, but terrible because I didn't know what to do with them. I was on the theory that there were two vowels in the answer, so I came up with MELON for my next guess. I still didn't get a green tile, and this is where my game came off the rails.
My initial instinct was to guess INCEL, but I had doubts as to whether that was in the word bank or not. I deleted it and stupidly guessed ELFIN, which was a complete wasted guess because I knew the N couldn't be at the end of the word. It's just completely devastating to me to waste a guess like that. I've mentioned viewing four as a par for Wordle, and wasting a guess is like when you have a good lie in the fairway and then you chunk your next stroke. It's just a complete waste of a good opportunity. Devastating.
So now I have to regroup. After looking at what I have on the board, I still think there are two vowels, but that means I have to have a repeating E. But I'm not seeing it. I play around and get the feeling that N should be the second letter. This leads me to the KN opening and I see that it can be KNELL or KNEEL. So I've got a 50/50 guess with two guesses left. At this point, I know I've got this solved, I just don't know the score. I go with KNELL and do not see five green tiles. KNEEL it is for a solve in six.
When I look at Wordlebot, I see that I had the puzzle down to four possible words by guess three when I wasted my fourth guess. One of the four remaining possible words was INCEL. From INCEL, I would have gotten to KNEEL on the next guess, so I did give away a stroke so to speak on that. Just a real bummer. Current streak is up to 48. Tomorrow I will not open with TRASH, which means tomorrow's solution will be TRASH.
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