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.
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