I start today with STUMP because the puzzles over the weekend tripped me up a little bit. It'll be hilarious if/when the Wordle is STUMP, but that today is not today. (Sorry for stealing your bit, Aragorn). Everything turns up gray off that guess, so I pick a different one-vowel word. I land on BLAND. This slightly more helpful in that I get a yellow tile for the L. I get the feeling that there is more than one vowel in today's answer. Just a gut feeling that I'm going to have to come off my strategy.
My next guess is LIVER. This gets me my second yellow for the I. But it also stumps me. I still think there is more than just the I as a vowel in this word, so I'm going to have to use O in my next guess. I wonder if the L goes at the end, but that means a lot of random guessing to get to a word. I fiddle around and wonder if COILY is a word (it isn't). I like the the idea of CO to start the word. I'm not coming up with anything to follow those letters though. Eventually, I type COLIC, which I'm unsure of because I thought there was an H in there, but COLIC is accepted. And the L is green in the middle. I also get yellows for the O and I, which I was pretty sure of anyways.
Now I've got the I either at the very end or the very beginning. I can't think of any real word that ends in I, so I put it up front I-L-- with an O in there somewhere. Eventually, after some trial and error, I get IGLOO. Everything turns green for a solve in five. Wow. IGLOO feels like a word designed to be the exact opposite of my strategy due to the three vowels and the repeating O's. So even though it was a solve in five, I don't feel bad about it. Although, I had started with something like BLOCK, this might've been a quicker solve. Who's to say? In any case, I had fun with this odd word and enjoyed today's puzzle.
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