I got yesterday's puzzle, but didn't blog about it because it was the 4th of July. So now I'm back again with today's post. I opened with GHOST, not sure why, but it seemed like a good enough word for a guess. I got a yellow tile for the O, so it wasn't terrible. I didn't feel good about moving the O all the way to the front of the word, so for my next guess, I slotted it into the second position. I knew putting it there would mean I needed a second vowel, and I went with A, so I found my way to POLAR pretty easily for my second guess. I didn't get an additional letter, so I was momentarily stumped.
I tried a few random letters to get me somewhere, but only stumped myself. At this point, I figured I'd lean into using vowels to try to get something going. I threw the O at the end and started working from there in my mind. I decided to get ---EO and worked from there to get VIDEO. This gave me a green for the V and yellows for E and O. At this point, I knew the word was V--O- with one of those blanks being an E. E made no sense as the third letter, so I had to go with VE-O-. And then it was apparent that the word was VENOM for a solve in four. I am curious if VENMO is or will be an acceptable answer some day.
Quick recap for 7/4 since the Wordlebot now saves your past solves. I went CHAMP, GLARE, TRADE, IRATE for a solve in four. I was feeling pretty good about my guess for GLARE since it was Independence Day, but I guess we are never doing themed answers for special days after people got mad about FEAST being the answer on Thanksgiving.
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