Wordle 719: Missed It By That Much

I opened today's puzzle with SPLAT. I remembered that earlier in the week I was looking for words that had the vowel somewhere other than the middle slot and came up with SPLAT. SPLAT is a great onomatopoeia word, so I was disappointed that none of the letters were correct. I turned to FROND as my second guess pretty quickly and was rewarded a green square for R.

But I only had one correct letter through two guesses. Working from the R, I was able to turn to CRIME, one of the few times that turning to CRIME is a good thing. This rewarded me with green tiles for C,R, and M. From here, I had to put U in the middle. I had CRUM-, so getting to CRUMB was pretty easy from there for a solve in four.

This answer is both good and bad for me. Good because I was able to get it and extend my streak to 57. But devastating because CRUMB is exactly the kind of the word that I would like to use for my opening guesses. It hits what I'm trying to do as far as using four consonants and, ideally, an uncommon vowel. Just a bummer because under a different set of circumstances, this could have been a solve in one.