I opened with FIGHT today and realized that I don't think I've opened with a -IGHT word to this point. I don't know why. There are lots of good, high-frequency letters in the four base letters. And then you get to choose from E, L, N, F, T, M, R, and S (and maybe W?) for your fifth letter. It just seems like you're going to get a hit on something, or at least eliminate a lot of words. I was delighted to hit enter. Until I saw the result. I got nothing but grays for my opening guess. And when I checked Wordlebot afterwards, there were 1,082 possible words left after the guess. Maybe the -IGHT words aren't that great after all.
Wow, from here, I felt that I needed a word with an E. I also felt that a word that ended in -RE would be good. I typed STORE, but the T was eliminated, so I turned to my inner Ghostbusters fan and remembered that Egon collected spores, molds, and fungus. SPORE for my second guess. I got greens for S, R, and E. To me, it was obvious that the other vowel in the word was A, so I had SXARE. Now I just needed to figure out it the answer was SCARE or SNARE.
I've started to see Halloween decorations in stores and Food Network is starting to air their various Halloween-themed baking shows, so SCARE was on my mind for my third guess. I did not solve in three, but it did confirm that the answer was SNARE. I feel good about a solve in four, although SNARE is an odd word. Ensnare, yes, but snare on it's own feels incomplete. So while, yes, SNARE is a word, I feel like it needs something else with it, like snare drum. Oh well.
PS After looking at Wordlebot, I'm embarrassed that I didn't see that SABRE was a possible answer for this puzzle. As a UVa alum, that's just a bad oversight by me.
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