Daily Quordle 437
PLANT
TRAIL
STALE
STALL
STALK - 5
FREAK
BREAK - 7
AWASH - 8
DECOY
Denied! That first trap really hamstrung me, and then I really wanted to guess break before freak but I saw freak first. I actually would have gone with break anyway, but with what just happened for me in the regular world game (spoiler) I felt like the universe was telling me to stick with freak. Turns out the universe was fucking with me.
For the last word (nothing but an E!) I was down to DECOY and MOVED and opted for decoy because it’s not a generic past tense. What the fuck is a covey? I call bullshit. I’m not saying this was a bullshit loss; this had loss written all over it for me from the get-go. I’m saying covey specifically is a bullshit word for the answer list.
Incidentally, when I started using this style of hard mode rules, before I had played the first game this puzzle is exactly how I expected it to go around half the time. So no harm no foul, except for covey. (And of course google is mocking me by properly interpreting it when I say it.)