Daily Quordle 648
RAISE
COUNT
SNAIL - 3
BLUFF - 4
RIVER
RIPER - 6
BUDDY
BUGGY - 8
I only saw bluff or fluff, but I see now mine could have been either plump or plumb as well.
Daily Sequence Quordle 648
RAISE
TALON
TAUNT - 3
MERGE
PERKY
FERRY - 6
TORSO - 7
CRUST - 8
I wish you well in achieving your goal!
I’m right there with you. We have quite the knack for selecting the wrong ones. One thing that always gets me in trouble is being reluctant to use double consonants. Like today, I know they use the _erry trap a lot, but I still avoid it in the hope that it will be something else this time, dumb.
8
Daily Quordle 649
RATED
PHONY
MUSIC
RANGE
GUSTO
WALKS
STAKE
SWIFT
I had to burn one guess on WALKS (what’s the term folks here use for that?), but it gave me the K and W needed to get the last two words. Winning streak still going.
Daily Quordle 648
SLATE
CHOIR
SNAIL (3)
DUMPY
BLUFF (5)
BUGGY (6)
RIPER (7)
I considered another sleuth word for the trap word, but I was feelin’ the word Riper, so I just went for it…lucky guess! 
Daily Sequence Quordle 648
SLATE
CHOIR
GAUNT
TAUNT (4)
BERRY
FERRY (6)
TORSO (7)
CRUST (8)
Summary
I feel pretty lucky with this one too…for the first word I saw two different trap words - I chose the correct trap (Gaunt-Taunt-Vaunt), and glad I got it in 2 guesses. And then getting the Berry-Ferry-Merry trap in 2 guesses was good too, which also could have been a few other words than the trap. Of course, if I solved both in one guess each, that’d be “wizard level” - lol, but I actually was satisfied with my game play on this one.
Well, it could have been something else, and you just took a chance it would be…not so dumb in my opinion. I actually almost went with Perky too. I also tend to be resistant to go with the double letters, but they do seem to like those type of trap words.
Daily Quordle 649
RAISE
RANGE - 2
STICK
SWIFT - 4
STAKE - 5
GUSTY
GUSTO - 7
Stick was a fortunate guess, it gave me the K for stake.
We call them sleuth words 
Daily Sequence Quordle 649
RAISE
CHUMP
PAPER - 3
CANOE - 4
CLOAK - 5
BLOND
FLOWN - 7
True, but like on this puzzle, after using chump to sleuth, it still could have been taper, paper or paler, but I picked paper because they seem to use that one more often. I should have used clump instead of chump, that would have eliminated paler too.
7
Daily Quordle 650
RATED
PHONY
MUSIC
GRAPH
POLAR
DIRGE
SPECK
Daily Quordle 649
SLATE
CHOIR
GUSTO (3)
BROWN
SWIFT (5)
RANGE (6)
STAKE (7)
I went with Brown as a sleuth word to check the #2 and #4 words, and then I’d just be taking my chances between Stake and Stave…and I actually got it right! 
Daily Sequence Quordle 649
SLATE
CHOIR
BAKER
EAGER
WIPED
PAPER (6)
CANOE (7)
CLOAK (8)
FLOWN (9)
Stupid trap word. 
I saw it right away, but with so many words it could be, I just started guessing, but then I thought I’d better get a sleuth word in there…and Wiped saved the day.
True…that was great thinking! But if you do go with something that isn’t as likely because you want to take that chance, I think of that as being more brave than dumb. 
I, on the other hand, felt I was being a bit dumb by not going with a sleuth right away…I wasn’t trying to take a risk, just wasn’t really thinking things through, even though I did see it was a big trap word. I wasn’t too upset about it…didn’t fail, so that is always a good thing!
Good one! Sometimes you really need a good sleuth word…they’ve kept me from failing many times, or helped to get a better score than I would have. 
Daily Quordle 650
RAISE
COULD
DIRGE - 3
SCENT
SPECK - 5
POLAR - 6
GRAPH - 7
Daily Sequence Quordle 650
RAISE
CRIED
BRIER
BRIEF - 4
VAPID
VALID - 6
NIGHT
NINTH - 8
GRAVY - 9
Lotta wrong guesses on this one 
Not necessarily, it could have been any one of those words as well. It’s all too easy to say I should have done this or that once you know what the answer is 
I try to go with what I think is more likely based on past puzzles, but even that is a crap shoot. Like today I tried brier because it’s been used several times before. (I remember because it’s briar dang it, LOL.) I was so sure that I never even saw brief, doh!
- This is becoming a bit of a habit.
Daily Quordle 651
RATED
PHONY
MUSIC
MONTH
OVERT
DRESS
PERKY
Daily Quordle 650
SLATE
CHOIR
GRAPH (3)
POLAR (4)
SPECK (5)
RIDGE
DIRGE (7)
So close to a 6, but I can’t allow my superpowers to get rusty now can I?
Daily Sequence Quordle 650
STONE
CHAIR
LUMPY
GRIEF
BRIEF (5)
VALID (6)
NINTH (7)
GRAVY (8)
You have a good point…it is always easier to say things in hindsight. I think I fell for the Brier-Briar thing before too…for today I knew the R wasn’t last so I wasn’t faced with that, but still took me 5 guesses to nail it (including my start words though), and went with the wrong letter again too - lol.
Side Note: Probably don’t need to blur that now…I’m playing really late (see “story time” below as to why), and pretending to be in the “International Date Line West” time zone - lol…love that I can change my system time so I can still play. 
Story Time
My usual evening routine got derailed a bit…I found a soaking wet really scared lost puppy and had to try to find her owner. The tag was just a shelter tag and it said she was a foster dog…I called the number for the shelter and I was able to talk to an animal control officer seconds before they closed, and he came over with the foster parents a while later. Good thing as I didn’t know what to do with the puppy otherwise…my dog was not happy about her presence here, nor were the cats. Usually my dog is great with other dogs, but I’m not sure she understands puppies. The puppy was so stinkin’ cute though!
Aww, glad you were able to rescue the poor pup
Daily Quordle 651
RAISE
POUND
DRESS - 3
OVERT - 4
PERKY - 5
MONTH - 6
and there’s perky three days late or maybe I was three days early
Daily Sequence Quordle 651
RAISE
CHART
GROAN - 3
FLICK
JUICY - 5
SHELL - 6
EARTH
HATER - 8
Do you play sequence too @Robot_Arm ?
Weekly Quordle Challenge 20
RAISE
POUND
FLUID - 3
THINK
WHINY - 5
WINCE - 6
SIXTH - 7