Wordle 822: No Cigar

Well, I've fallen into the trap that I always do with blogs/writing. I've fallen off the train and haven't written in forever. My streak is up to 13 with today's win. And I've gotten to 88 birdies with 89 bogeys. I had it at 88-88 until Saturday when it took me 5 turns to get ANGEL. I also got yesterday's wordle in two, going FRONT to FRANK for the win. So I've caught you up with the noteworthy happenings on with my Wordles in the past week.

I opened today's game with TRIAL, which only got me a yellow L. I wasn't sure where to go from here, so I fell into my usual pattern of putting the one letter I have at the front of the word. Which led me to... um... uh... LOCUS? Look, I found it really hard to to think of a word that started with L, didn't have an R, and had an O. But I got to LOCUS eventually and actually got a lot of good information out of it. I had yellows for L, O, C, and S. On the one hand, this was great, I knew what to work with, on the other hand, this all looked like alphabet soup to me. Eventually, I land on SCOLD, which is a good, but odd guess. And it isn't the right word. But I do get a green O. I also know where the L and S go due  to process of elimination. I've XLOSX. Putting C at the end makes no sense. CLOSX is CLOSE. Of course. Wow, I feel dumb for not using or even thinking about E. Damn, I should have had that solved in three.