I'm ready to attack this puzzle after yesterday's ENNUI fiasco. I don't think it was a fair word because it's French. I get that is it used by English speakers, but it just feels like a cheat. Is ADIOS an acceptable answer now? Enough about yesterday.
I open with PINCH because as I mentioned yesterday (dammit), I'm looking for one-vowel words that don't have the vowel in the middle. I get a yellow for the C, so it's not a total loss, but far from ideal results on my opener. For the second guess, I'm going with CREST. There was a brief moment where I was trying to find something that worked with CLAS-, but CREST feels good. Okay, I get yellows for C and S and the T is in the right spot.
I briefly fiddle with the idea of S at the front, but that's not something I really explore. I start looking my available vowels. I type in ACOST, but I think that's actually spelled with two C's, so I that won't work. But ASCOT will work. I get a gray A, so I know it's wrong, but then I get yellows for everything else.
SCOOT. I want to type in SCOOT so badly, but that won't work. So I take a breath and type in SCOUT, which is correct. Man, I should've spent some more time with S at the front before my third guess. I also could have looked at U more closely, but trying to find an A or O intuitively seems safer than looking for U. I don't know what the numbers would say, but that felt like a justifiable pick. The streak is now up to 55.
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