Missed a few posts that I should have written but didn't. I'm not going to go back and do catch up posts, so here we are. My streak is still active at 97 days. I open yesterday's puzzle with STAIN and this guess is a stain upon my me because I get no correct letters, which is a bummer. I move to PROBE for my second guess and get yellows for R and E. But at this point, I'm kind of stumped and I don't really want to guess a word that ends in -ER. After some thought, I decide go with DECRY, which gives me an additional yellow for the Y. It's at this point that my solving experience goes off the rails.
I'm stumped. Like legitimately stumped. I mean, close-the-game-and-do-other-stuff stumped. I have no idea what to do. It makes sense that I am stymied because as I will learn when I consult Wordlebot (post-solve), there is only one possible word that can solve this puzzle. I don't know. I finally finally decide on SHYER as my fourth guess and get green tiles for YER. I felt good about this guess, but didn't realize until later that the guess had no chance of being correct, since the S had already been eliminated.
The same thing happened with my fifth guess FRYER, which got me a green F, but again, had no chance of being correct since the R couldn't be second. So while guesses four and five weren't valid guesses, even though I thought they were at the time, they weren't wasted and got me to the correct answer FLYER for my sixth guess.
This was a tough one that I was eventually able to solve, but it was a struggle.
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