I am starting to wonder if I am approaching this game wrong. Maybe instead of hunting vowels early, you should hunt for consonants. I mean, there are 5 vowels, but 21 consonants, so shouldn't we be trying to knock as many consonants out of the way first? You're going to end up using vowels in your guesses anyway, so they kind of take care of themselves, don't they? To start testing this, I opened today's puzzle with STORY. Only the O was yellow. But to follow my logic, I've narrowed the possibilities for my next guess down to 17 as opposed to having 16 or 18 consonants if I had guessed a word that had two vowels. I'm not sure if makes a big difference, but something to keep in mind.
My second guess is MELON. I get greens for the ELO in the middle of the word. Now I've just got to find the first and last letters, which I can confidently surmise are consonants. In theory, I've go four guesses to roll through the remaining 14 consonants (15 if L repeats somewhere in the answer). I look at it for a bit and come to BELOW as my answer, which is correct. A solve in three is pretty good for the first day trying this different approach. We will have to keep at it to see if it actually works better as a solving technique. Streak is up to 23.
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