Wordle 733: C'mon, the Answer is Right in Front of Your Nose

I wanted to open with WREST, but a W that early feels like a waste of a letter. So I swap the W for a C and go with CREST for my opening guess. The C is not in the word, but I got yellows for the last three letters in the guess. So I've got a lot of letters to work with here. As I look at what I have I settle on either SLATE or STALE for my second guess. I don't even consider any alternatives. It's one of these words that I'm going with. I settle on SLATE and get yellows for the S and A and greens for the TE at the end, so going with SLATE was clearly a brilliant choice by me.

I play with the A and S and determine that the word has to be -ASTE. I've got some options here, but I figure I'll go with WASTE since WREST was my first thought for the opener. I never should have been seduced by the W. Ok, so I can solve this in either four or five because the only remaining options are HASTE and PASTE. So I've got a 50/50 here and decide not to overthink this and make HASTE with my decision. (See what I did there?) Haste was wrong. Ok, it's PASTE for a solve in five. 

Only PASTE is wrong. WHAT?!? I don't understand. That was the only option left. This makes no sense!

It's at this moment that I see where I messed up. It's the T. I had looked at my unshaded letters and since I didn't see T, I never considered TASTE. I got got by a repeated letter. Damn. I solve on my final guess with TASTE to extend my streak to 71.

PS When I check WordleBot, it turns out that BASTE was an option that I totally overlooked. I would've been irate if the answer had been BASTE.