Wordle 810: Back on the Saddle

Time to start building a new streak. That's the only way to look at it. I opened with PLACE because I felt like I was in the bad place after yesterday's puzzle, and I'm trying to work my out of three. I got yellows for the L and the E, so I've got some letters that I will work with going forward. I wanted to go with LEAST, but I knew that can't be right. I played around with LE--- words for a while before deciding to move on to other options. I knew it wouldn't end in -LE, but I did like the idea of the L in the fourth slot. This led me to SHELF. I briefly considered SHELL, but didn't like going with double letters so early. So SHELF for me second guess.

Which gave me the locations of the E and the L. Here I got stumped again. I tried to think of something to do, and it was only once I started playing with different vowels that I saw what had to be the answer: either YIELD or WIELD. I decided to go with the YIELD and was shocked *shocked* that it wasn't the answer. The D was yellow though. I tried it as the second letter, but that didn't look right. So I typed DXELX, and saw that the answer was either DWELT or DWELL. I went with DWELL because DWELT is honestly a word I've only ever seen used at church. DWELL for a solve in four was a good way to get back on the saddle. Although, if I had gone with SHELL, maybe I could've gotten a solve in three.