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?
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