Wordle 802: I Can Hear It

My streak is still alive, I just haven't done any writing the last couple of days. I will try to post tomorrow, but then I'm not going to post again until Tuesday due to Labor Day.

I opened today with BRAIN. A good word for any kind of mental endeavor. I got a green I and a yellow A from this. My initial though was to guess MANIA, but that wouldn't work due to the N. I liked the idea of ending with -IA, but I wasn't able to think of any other five letter words that could have fit. Oh, I guess MAFIA could have worked, but I didn't think of it when I was solving the puzzle. My inability to place the A at the end meant I had to move it forward in the word. I decided to go with XAXIX and that led me to VALID for my second guess, which got me another yellow for the D. 

At this point, I was pretty much locked into using that A as the first letter. I brought the D with it to the front for ADXIX. This stumped me for a bit, but then I saw ADMIN, which led to ADMIT for my third guess. I got the positions of the A and D from this guess. The A was green, but since the D was yellow, I now knew it was the third letter of the word. AXDIX. I played a bit with the last letter being C, but that didn't work. I was struggling, but then I looked at the remaining vowels. Then I saw the answer: AUDIO for a solve in four. I imagine there were a decent amount of solves in one or two today. I mean, all these ADIEU had to have gotten the answer on the next guess, right? That's the whole point of that guess, right?

Wordle 796 & 797: Back on Track

I opened Thursday's game with PRINT, which gave me a yellow tile for the R. This didn't give me a lot to work with. I decided against trying to put R at the front of the word and came up with COVER. I got a green O, which gives me something to really start building my next guesses around. I couldn't build anything initially until I started looking at using Y. This got me to DORKY, which was a really good guess. I got a yellow D, but more importantly, I got greens for the R and Y. So I have XORDY. I briefly considered LORDY, but that seemed ridiculous, so I went with WORDY for a win in four. Pretty good solve for a Thursday.

Today's puzzle started with a guess of CLAIM for me. I got yellows for the C and A. So I had two letters to consider as I thought about my second guess. I played with the letters for a bit and came up with RECAP for my second guess. I got the position of the A and another yellow for E. This stumped me and I played around for a while trying to figure out where everything went. I knew C was either second or fifth, but fifth didn't make sense. So I was looking at ECXAX, XCEAX, or XCXAE. I eliminated the last option quickly. With E at the front, all I could see was EXACT, which was wrong for a lot of reasons. So I focused on XCEAX. I wanted to see BEACH in that combination, but I knew that was wrong, but it did lead me to OCEAN, for a solve in three. (Finally!).

Wordle 794 and 795: It's Tough Out Here

I'm going to get Tuesday and Wednesday's recaps today. Both of these puzzles gave me a big slice of humble pie and showed my why it's so hard to try to get solves in three.

Tuesday I opened with STRAW, which got me a green tile for S and grays for the rest, which is a good opening, all things considered. It at least confined me to one part of the dictionary. I figured that I should try a word that ends in E because that makes sense to me. After some thought, I decided to go with SHINE, which got me green tiles for S, I, and E. Which is pretty much a kiss of death for getting this solved in three. There are options here (seven according to Wordlebot when I checked post-solve) and getting the right answer will take some luck. I go with SLIDE, and neither of the letters are correct. I get the solve in four by going with SPICE, which I probably should've used on my third guess since I love spicy food. Oh well, at least it was #NoYellows. Oh, wow, SHINE was the second most popular guess for the second turn among all players according to Wordlebot. Kind of interesting to see that I was aligned with the plurality of players on that. 

Today, I started with CRAFT. Not sure if I was using the noun or the verb, but CRAFT was the guess and it got me a me yellow R. Which is not very helpful. My first instinct is SEWER, but I decide against it because of the repeated Es and the W in the middle. By the way, TMNT: Mutant Mayhem is a fun little movie that you should check out. I default to my second guess strategy of moving a yellow letter to the front of the word for my second guess and come up with REPLY. I get a green E from this guess. I'm focusing on the green E as I work through words for guess number three and use DENIM, which gets me no new letters. And I forgot the R. Dammit, a wasted guess. At this point, I figure I should return to my initial instinct and type in SEWER. I get a second yellow E. I'm working through the possibilities and type XERVE. I wish I could guess NERVE, but I know that's wrong thanks to my DENIM guess, so it wasn't a total waste. XERVE feels like the best construction available, and then I consider that maybe the V is repeated. VERVE. Is that how you spell it? Personally, I would've spelled it vurve, but that can't work. I hit enter on VERVE and get a solve in five.

My streak is up to 133, but my birdie to bogey ration has taken a hit as I'm now at 80:85. I was so close to having those be even about a week and a half ago. I still think I'll get to even (and eventually more threes than fives), but it's going to be a challenge. 

Wordle 793: Surf's Up

I've been cranking away at the Worldes, but I have had a chance to write anything about them. Friday was tough, I got the solve on my sixth and final guess. Saturday was a solve in four, and yesterday was a solve in five. I want to get the workweek started off strongly, so I can get some solves in three this week. I opened with FUDGE today because it was an answer that tripped me up on the NYT Daily Mini crossword. FUDGE didn't really help me out, with only a yellow tile for the E, but it got me going. I didn't really want to start the word with E, so I played around looking for words where it was the second letter. Instead of looking for a second vowel, I landed on PERCH for my second guess. This was very fruitful as I got greens for E, C, and H.

This is where I decided I would really focus in and try to get a solve in three. As noted in the intro, it's been a while since I had a birdie, so when my second guess turned up so many positive letters, I decided to go for it. I was struggling to find a word, so I was looking at the ending of the word based on what I had. R was out as the third letter, but maybe T? XETCH? FETCH, LETCH? FETCH is a good word, but F can't be in the answer. Switching T for N led me to WENCH, which didn't really inspire confidence. Then I thought maybe a vowel could be the third letter. XEACH is good. I thought about REACH, LEACH, and then I thought, "hey, a lot of people are going back to school today, maybe it's a themed answer?" I don't know if themed answers are even a thing anymore after the Thanksgiving/FEAST backlash, but I can't resist it. I hit enter on TEACH and get a gray T followed by four greens. Damn. From here, I decide that BEACH is probably my best guess, and I hit enter for a solve in four. So close. Insert Ken joke about my job being BEACH. That pushes my streak up to 131, which is a pretty good feeling. I'll get it in three tomorrow. 

Wordle 789: Just Off Target

Didn't post this morning because I just wasn't feeling up to it, but I did do the Wordle. And I'm feeling better about myself, so let's get into it. I opened with BLOCK, which turned up nothing positive. That's always a bummer, but I pushed forward. My next guess was SHAME. I'll just leave it at that for my reasoning. I got yellows for S, A, and M. This perplexed me and I wasn't sure where to go next. When I checked Wordlebot post-solve, I see that I apparently eliminated all words except for the answer, so I guess it made a bit of sense that I wasn't sure what to do.

I wasn't sure what to do with the S. I put it at the end. I know plurals aren't allowed, so I guess I was thinking about verbs. Which is how I got to RAMPS. I'm not sure if verbs are allowed. I haven't really thought about it. But I guess they aren't in the word bank because there was only one word left, and it wasn't RAMPS. But here's where it got more confusing: the S was green. So what can this word be?

I knew the M had to be either first or second, I knew the A was either first or fourth, and I wasn't really sure where to go. Maybe this word ends in a double S? Hmm. XXXSS, with the A and M somewhere in the front of the word. AMXSS, AMASS isn't correct, but that gets me to AMISS. I hit enter for another solve in four. Wow, AMISS is such a good word and a tricky one, too. I can't complain that I didn't get it in three, this is not a word that I was thinking of in any way until it hit me in the face in the fourth guess. My streak is up to 127 at the moment.  

Wordle 788: My Difficult Solve

VOCAL is my opening guess today. I don't know why. I ended up getting a yellow C, so maybe not the best guess, but I've got something to work with here. My usual tactic when I have one letter is to use it as the first letter in my second guess. I throw the C there and CRAVE is the first word I think of, which is terrible since it has two letters that I know aren't in the word. That gives way to CRAZY, but again, not gonna enter it. I'm doing my best to get away from the letter A, so I think about what I should do with that second letter. CR or CH to start this word? Since CR keeps pushing me to A, I go with CH and then enter CHEST for my second guess. I get a yellow S, which isn't the greatest result, but it is what it is.

I don't really know where to go for my third guess. I look at SC as the starting point for a word, but I don't really get anywhere trying to build from there. So I start moving the C around. Putting it last is terrible. It's too far away. I'm looking at SXXXC, and that just isn't helpful. Also, the chances of a word ending with C are probably pretty low in general and feel non-existent with this puzzle. So I guess it's the fourth slot for C. What vowel is going to get me from SXXCX to an actual word? I look at it for a while and think of SPICE, but I know the E is out. I'm about to start from scratch when I see the Y. SPICY sounds good; tastes good too. But it's not the answer. I do get a green tile for S, though.

Wait, does this word end in C? No. That's stupid. I type in SCUXX. All I can think of is SKUNK, which can't be right. SCUDS? SCULL... c'mon. What is this? As I continue to sound out SCU words, I somehow stumble onto SBRUB. Which could actually work out. SCRUB for nice par save! I was lost on this one until I stumbled into the answer. SCRUB is a good word; good show too. 

P.S. Yes, I know the show is SCRUBS. I can hear the (non-existent) commenters saying, "Actually, the show is..." I know what the show is called. I just wanted to mirror what I had written after my SPICY guess. Surely, you can give me a bit of leeway to have that stylistic flair.

Wordle 787: Cards, Files, and Fingers

I briefly considered starting with EAGLE today because I nearly had a solve in two yesterday. I thought it would be a funny little bit to do, but once I typed it in, the double E just isn't something that I can get behind for an opening guess. So the joke dies. I thought for a moment or two and decided to use GRAND, which gave me yellow tiles for N and D. This is an interesting result because I would have thought those letters would either go together in a five-letter word or would not be in the same five-letter word. Deny is the first thing that comes to mind, but since it is too short, I run through denies, denied, and denial in my head even though they are all too long. But I like the DE to start these words, and it leads me to DENIM. DENIM gives me yellows for D, E, N, and I.

WHAT? This result seems like a joke. I just can't figure out what the heck is going on here. But it does seem like an interesting challenge. I start playing with the letters, starting my words with E. I get ENIDS and ENIDY, but those all seem like fake words. Using I gives me IDENT. Nope, I'm not hitting enter on that. NIDES? Oh, that could be SNIDE, which feels like a good guess. And it mostly is, but it's not the right word. The S is gray, but I do find that the N goes in the second slot. I look at ENIDS again. Is that like a bug or something? Then I realize the D can't go there, but I do know where it has to go based on my other guesses. So I have -ND--. I look at the letters and see INDEX for a solve in four. This is a good result for a word with a unique like X in it. After that second guess had so many yellows, I was hoping I'd be able to get a birdie, but, honestly, X would never have come to mind as a letter to use in that guess. X, Q, and probably Z are letters that I don't I would use that early in a solve, so I'm perfectly fine getting a solve in four.

Wordle 786: Fly Like an Eagle

I spent the last part of my Friday post writing about how close I am to having as many birdies as bogies in my Par 4 version of Wordle. I had only one more bogey than birdie, so I was certain I'd be even or have more 3's than 5's soon. It felt great. So of course both my weekend solves went five guesses. Two bogeys after being confident that I was a birdie machine, that I was getting better at this game. Well, the machine kicked my ass over the weekend. But I have to admit, QUICK and WRATH were excellent words. If I have to get bogeys, I want it to be because the words are unique and interesting rather than due to me making stupid mistakes. This weekend was definitely a case where the former was true.

I started my puzzle today with FRONT. No real reason other than it was the first word to come to mind when I opened the app today. FRONT was not the best as I only got a yellow tile for the N. I felt betrayed by my guess. Like I had been bit by a snake in the grass. Which led me to the second guess: SNAKE. I see a green S, then a green N, a green A, wow is this happening? The K is green as well. Holy cow! A solve in two! What a way to strike back after my two bogies over the weekend! Then the E is gray. What? Is Wordle dyslexic and tying to spell SNACK? This is unreal. The only thing that makes sense as I look through the letters is SNAKY, which is that even a word? I have no choice but to hit enter and get a solve in three. So I notched another birdie to bring me to 80 compared to 82 bogies. I'll get there soon.

Wordle 783: Is It Me You're Looking For?

I fiddled around with a few different words before I decided to go with SPORT because I was watching the Spain-Denmark game in the Women's World Cup last night. SPORT was, I thought, a decent guess, but all I got correct was a yellow O. Knowing that the O wasn't in the middle meant I needed to use at least one additional vowel, so I started thinking about words with the letter E in them. Eventually, I had COVET typed in, but knew that couldn't work because T wasn't in the word. This led me to COVEN for my second and the thought that maybe I should go to confession. COVEN got me an additional yellow for the E.

I knew the word had a O and E, so I typed in XEXOX. This naturally led me to XEROX, but I didn't hit enter because of the R. XENON was also out because of the N from my second guess. I was glad that I had eliminated letters that prevented me from wasting a guess on an X word because it was awfully tempting to try it. I couldn't think of anything that had O at the front of the word, nor could I come up with anything for the E at the front. I typed in XEXOX again, and then I saw HELLO. I hit enter for a solve in three and to extend my streak to 121. I also now have 79 solves in three compared to 80 solves in 5. It's been a goal of mine to get those even and then eventually to have more solves in three for a while, so it feels really good to be on the precipice of that. 

Wordle 782: Now You Have My Attention, Wordle.

I start today with FLAME. No real reason other than it's the word that came into my mind and I couldn't think of any better alternatives. So, FLAME on! Despite my Johnny Storm enthusiasm, I only get two yellow tiles for my guess, the M and the E. For my second guess, I've narrowed it down to two guess: METER or EMITS. EMITS would put me in a better position for guesses going forward. I'm tempted to play it safe, but decide to go with the slightly riskier play of METER. I get three yellows for my guess as T joins the list of letters I already know.

So I guess EMITS is the play for the my third guess. I pause for a moment just to make sure I'm not overlooking anything. TEMPO won't work. TXMEX doesn't yield anything. I'll go with EMITS, it was a contender for my second guess and it is still in play. Oh, this game just got interesting. I got green tiles for E,M, and T, but EMITS was not the word. I type in EMETX to see if there is anything. Neither O or U make sense in the middle, so there must be a Y. That when it hits me: EMPTY. EMPTY for a solve in four that pushes my current streak to 120. 

Interesting addendum to this post. I checked Wordlebot to see if there was anything interesting to learn about my solve. For my third guess, the bot gave me a skill score of 0. My first assumption was that meant that EMITS isn't a valid guess, but the game took it, and Wordlebot said it was a "valid guess, but it's unlikely to be a solution based on what I've learned from playing Wordle." What the fuck does that mean? EMITS is either a word that can be the answer or its not. If it's not, we shouldn't be able to guess it. Part of me is okay with the game accepting it as a guess because it led me to solving the puzzle, but I'm also annoyed by the smug response to my guess from Wordlebot.

Wordle 781: ER, ER, ER, What Do I DO Here?

I start my Wordle with HOMER because I am listening to the Nats Chat Podcast as I play and Joey Meneses hit two homers to beat the Phillies last night. (We won't talk about the afternoon game the Nats and Phillies played.) HOMER was a good word for me as I got green tiles for the O, E, and R. This is a bit scary since I've pretty much just got to guess to find the two remaining letters. Like, this could go sideways on me pretty quickly here. I guess POKER and it is not the answer. See how hard this could get for me?

I want to be strategic, but it's really hard to do. I do know that MOVER can't work because of my first guess, but do I stick with the V in the middle? This leads me to LOVER, is that a good guess or just a stab in the dark like POKER was? I don't know. I am buoyed by that fact that there are only so many XOXER, but there is still a lot to choose from. Just typing my X thing now brought to mind BOXER. I don't know. I go with LOVER for my third guess just to get things moving. And it turns over all green! A solve in three after feeling such despair is a very good result. I won't worry myself about how much of the win was due to luck because it just feels like a good win. I'm also curious to see how a certain TikTok Wordle player will react to today's solution.

Wordle 780: Skin of my Teeth

OK! I made it back to do the second blog post of the day to get everything back on track. I played Connections before I did today's Wordle. One of the categories in Connections was superheroes, and the Flash was one of the four heroes in the group, so he was on my mind when I started Wordle. FLASH as my first guess got me a yellow tile for the L. When I get one yellow letter, I usually put in the first spot for my next guess. I don't have a good reason for this tendency other than the fact that it helps me think the puzzle through. It's a lot easier to think of words that start with L than trying to fit the L elsewhere. But I felt like mixing things up today and decided to put L at the end of the word which led me to PERIL for my second guess, which only got me a yellow tile for the L.

Well, I guess I better return to my usual tendencies and think of words that start with L. With L at the front, I have to think about which remaining vowel I want to use: O or U. I opt for O, so I have LOXXX. The first word I am able see after typing this in is LOBBY, so I enter it for my third guess. And I still don't know exactly where the L goes because the first tile is still yellow. I also get a yellow B, so that's good, and a green Y, which is great. So I feel that we are now in the adjective/adverb realm with the Y at the end. I put the B at the front, and put U, which I know is in the word second. The L has to go third, so BULXY leads me to BULKY for my fourth guess. Everything is green except for the K.

So I just need to find the fourth letter. I look through my available letters and type in BULGY for my fifth guess. Which is not the answer. I am panicking just a little bit since I am at the sixth and final guess and there could be a chance of getting this wrong. I look through the available letters and don't see anything. Maybe it's a double letter? BULBY or BULLY. BULBY isn't a word, so BULLY is the guess. I hold my breath as I watch the green tiles turn over and the fourth tile is green as well. Close call here, but it pushes my win streak up to 118.  

Wordle 779: Swept Away

I meant to do two posts yesterday, the weekend wrap-up and the Monday wordle, but I never got around to the Monday post. So now I have the same dilemma, do I write a combined post or plan to get two separate posts? I'm going to tempt fate and try to get the Monday post and the Tuesday post, but we will see what happens.

I opened with STING and got all gray tiles for my guess. After that, I wanted to get a guess with two vowels in it. I played around trying to think of something and landed on RELAY as a good and unique E/A word. I felt really pleased with myself for having a unique word, and I got rewarded with just a yellow R. Wow. I know that getting gray tiles still gives you information to help you solve the wordle, but man, is it depressing to only get one correct letter (in the wrong place!) after two guesses.

So I'm in complete vowel-hunting mode at this point, so I need something with O and U in it. And an R. I have to use the letter that I have. This pushes me to PROUD, which finally gets me some green tiles. The R and O are in the correct positions. I get a feeling that there needs to be another vowel in this word, so it leads me to thinking about a double O. I type in XROOX. I replace the first X with a B, so there is BROOX. So my next guess is going to be either BROOM or BROOK. I'm not sure if BROOK is spelled that way or similar to the name, so I go with BROOM for guess four. Green B, green R, green O, another green O, and then a gray M. Damn. So close. I type in BROOK for a solve in five, which isn't the worst, but not the best either. Oh well. 

Weekend Wrap-Up

For Saturday's wordle, I opened with PULSE, which got me a green tile for the E. I knew I needed a second vowel, but did not want to go with an a, so I chose FORCE for my second guess. I got a yellow for the O, so I had two vowels and whole lot of nothing beyond that at this point. I took a while for my third guess but eventually I decided to either guess ADOBE or ABODE. I opted for ABODE because I recently saw The Lion King at the Kennedy Center. So Hakuna Matata. ABODE was nearly the answer! The only letter that wasn't green was the B. So at this point, I just needed to scan my available letters to find the answer and the only thing that made sense was ANODE, which was good for a solve in four.

Sunday, I was decided it would be cool to have a thematic link with my opening guesses for weekend. So PULSE led me to ALIVE for my opening guess Sunday morning. I got a yellow L out of it. For my second guess, I moved the L to the front of the word. I needed a vowel for the second letter when I realized that I only had O and U available to me. I put the O there and then since I had been thinking about the two vowels, LOUSY came to me as a logical guess. I got yellows for the L and Y and a green for the O, which didn't make a lot of sense. To avoid being stumped, I typed XOLXX on my screen. The only two things that I could think of from this setup was YOLKY (which wouldn't work) and YOLO_, which is nothing. So I had no choice but to type XOLYX. Seeing the X's at the front and end of the word must have triggered something inside me because the word POLYP popped in my mind. I hit enter for a solve in three on a puzzle that I'm sure probably broke a few streaks. I'm feeling pretty good about this solve even thought ALIVE is a word that is pretty much the opposite of my early game strategy since it has so many vowels. Sunday it paid off since I was able to use the abundance of vowels to eliminate a bunch of words and lead me to the answer in three guesses.

Wordle 776: If You Ain't First, You're Last

When I started yesterday's Wordle with THIRD, I had the brilliant stupid idea to start Friday's puzzle with FIRST. Even though it is stupid, I decided to stick with the idea, so FIRST was my FRIST guess today. And FIRST pulled its weight, giving me a yellow R and a green T. After looking at what I had, I decided to see if the word ended in RT. COURT and ABORT were the two words that made sense to me, but I wasn't sure which one to pick. I thought it through and decided to let alphabetical order make my decision for me. ABORT did confirm that the answer ends in RT, but it wasn't the answer. I did get a yellow A in additional to the green R.

Every word I thought of for my third guess started with S, which is not in the answer. SMART, START. I decided to type in something off the wall to see if it triggered anything and ended up typing in whart, which probably isn't a word. But it did lead me to CHART for my third guess and a solve in three. This was a good solve, and it was really great because I broke my streak of stupidity today. I guess I could have had a solve in two if I really took a long time to think it through, but solving in two involves a lot of luck. As the puzzle played out, I think both COURT and ABORT would have led me to CHART in three. 

Wordle 775: Red Solo Cup, I Lift You Up

I started today with THIRD as my first guess. I wanted to make a joke about THIRD being the third word I thought of, but I didn't feel like doing the joke math to make it work. So let's all have a moment of silence for the joke that I killed in the cradle due to laziness. OK. THIRD did give me yellows for T and R. My initial idea is to think of a word that ends in RT. SHORT comes to mind, but won't work, obviously, so I need to look elsewhere. I've had two days in a row where I used a guess that couldn't work because I already knew the letter didn't go in that slot, so I'm being extra vigilant about that today. 

As I was thinking of potential second guess words, START is a word that really intrigued me. The double T gives me pause, but screw it, I pull the trigger on it. There is not a double T in the word, but there is an A. And then I realize I fucked up the one thing I was trying to avoid. Maybe you saw it earlier than I did. I put R in the fourth slot in both of my first two guesses. Dammit. What is wrong with my brain this week?

For my third guess, I want to use RATIO, but the I has been eliminated. I need to look elsewhere. I don't see much with R as the second letter, but then I stumble onto PARTY. Sure, let's have a PARTY, I've already fucked around enough with this puzzle. I hit enter and am pleasantly surprised that PARTY is the answer. I'm glad to get a solve in three, but man, I have really been out to lunch this week using guesses that are invalid. 

Wordle 773 and 774: Two for One!

It is hilarious that I wrote a post on Monday about the need to write every day and then on Tuesday, I did not write a post. I wish I could say I planned that joke out, but no, I just got busy on Tuesday and never got the 20 or so minutes that I take to write up my thoughts about the day's solve. Reality is sometimes lamer than a good joke. Oh well. I'll do quick recaps for Tuesday and Wednesday in this post.

I opened yesterday's Wordle with a guess of WREST. I can't for the life of me remember why I chose that word, but it got me yellows for E and T. For my second guess, I wanted to put -TE at the end of the word, and there were two words that popped out at me to accomplish this goal: SLATE and PLATE. I was hesitant to use either. SLATE is always one of the words recommended by Wordlebot early in the solve, and I do not want to robotic about my solves. Thoughtful, yes. Robotic, no. Which leads me to my hesitance for PLATE: I used it as my second guess in Monday's puzzle. But I didn't see any other way to get where I wanted to go without using PLATE, so PLATE was the second guess, which got me a green for the T.

From here, I knew the E was either first or second, but I couldn't think of any words to start with an E that would work, so I typed it in the second spot. Looking at XEXTX gave me the feeling that the answer could end in Y, and then, because I love trash bags, I was able to quickly type in HEFTY for my third guess. I got a green for the E and a yellow for the H. I looked at this result and saw that the answer for the puzzle was TEETH, which I could have struggled to get because I don't usually consider repeating letters until late in the game, and this answer had repeating Ts and Es. That's a bummer for me, but I got a solve in four, so alright.

Except I didn't solve this Wordle in four guesses. TEETH was wrong. Which is something I should have seen because my first guess WREST let me know that E wasn't the third letter. I made a dumb mistake here that I should have seen. The answer was TENTH. Damn, that stings.

Today's Wordle started with a guess of BINGO! I don't know why. But once I thought of it, I couldn't let it go, so B-I-N-G-O and BINGO was the guesso. This gave me a green B and a yellow G. Really fortunate results for a ridiculous opening guess. From here, I quickly guessed BRAGS, which was wrong. And a bad guess since the G was in the same spot as my first guess. Just a very poor, dumb mistake made by me there.

The only bright side to that guess was that it left me with just E and U to use as far as vowels were concerned. I looked at B,G,E,U and came up with BUGEL, which is the incorrect spelling for BUGLE. BUGLE as my third guess got me the correct location for G and a yellow E. Okay, so now I figured the word was BEGXX because you need to have a vowel between the B and the G. BEGAN/BEGIN/BEGUN are all eliminated, BEGGAR is too long, and Y makes no sense with what I have so far. Then I type BEGE and BEGET makes itself obvious. I hit enter for a solve in four, which is pretty good considering I threw my second guess away.