Okay, back to the normal format. Sort of. This is super late, but no one's reading, so I can post at any time I want to. I played this puzzle around noon, but I wanted to write up yesterday's entry and then give this one its own post, so just bear with me.
I opened with TRICK and go a yellow tile for I, with everything else gray. Based off this, I knew that there would be another vowel somewhere in the word. So I had two choices: pick A or E and go with something safe or go wild with either O or U. I was feeling pretty good, so for my second guess I took a swing for the fences rather than just trying to eliminate more letters. I don't know why, but I just felt supremely confident in guessing BISON. I mean I was really feeling good about it. That was definitely going to be the answer. Until the B turned up gray and the I was still yellow and everything else was gray.
So nope, that wasn't the best guess. For my third guess, I decided to get an A in the word. After some thinking, I decided to go with PLAID as my guess. This was a pretty good guess as I got green tiles for the I and the D. With ID at the end, I felt confident that U was the third letter. I wanted SQUID, but the S was out. Then I thought FLUID would be good, but the L had just been gray in PLAID. I was stumped until I moved that U up a space to the second slot and got to HUMID, which is a great word for the start of summer. Today was the hottest day of the year so far in the DC metro area, so it lined up. Today's win got my streak up to 51.
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