Weekend Catchup - Wordles 714 & 715

I've mentioned on here that I view a correct answer in four as par with everything else being above or below par. This weekend gave two puzzles that I was able to solve in five and three, so my score for this weekend was an even par.

Saturday's started off with FRONT, getting me a green square for the N. Coming out of that guess, I figured there would be a vowel at the end of the word, so I went with SHINE for my second guess and all the new letters were gray. This was a disappointment and I had no clue what the word could be. The thought of there being a double N entered my mind, but I didn't want to follow that path until I had a vowel so my third guess was PLUNK. Again all of my letters were gray. So I now knew that the vowel was A; I also had a pretty good feeling that the were indeed was a double N. This assumption pushed me to put a Y at the end of my next guess. I came up with CANNY for my fourth. This guess, unfortunately, was wrong. But I did get green tiles for ANNY. So now I just needed to find that first letter. After looking at my available letters, the only thing I could think of was NANNY, which was ridiculous. I mean, come on, three N's? NO way. But NANNY is what my available letters showed me, and it was the answer. NANNY in five feels pretty good, even though it's a bogey. I haven't checked, but I imagine a lot of streaks ended Saturday.

Sunday's game opened with SLICK. I got a yellow square for the S. From there, I went with PASTE as my second guess, figuring the S wouldn't be at the end of the word and wanting to get the A and E used to try find something to work from. This was a good guess as I got yellow tiles for everything but the P. So now, I was determined to try to get this puzzle solved in three. I wanted a birdie. I played around with the S in the second spot, but didn't get anywhere other than typing in ASTER, which sounds made up. I didn't even bother with S in the final spot. So I looked at it in the fourth spot. I fiddled around for a bit typing in some nonsense words. I think my best words were adest or maybe atest. I finally landed on LEAST and was about to guess that when I looked at my first guess and saw that I already used the L. But I liked the way -EAST looked. I scanned my available letters and saw that BEAST and FEAST worked. So now I figured I had a 50/50 coin toss. I wasn't sure which guess to make, but ultimately went with BEAST. That first tile turned over green, and I knew I had a win in three. Felt really good to get that one.