Weekly Quordle Challenge 21
STORE
CHAIN
FACET (3)
MISTY (4)
STEEL (5)
VOWEL (6)
Got lucky again! 
Weekly Challenge #21 
Looks like we all fell for the shelf/shell trap. Next time when we all guess shell first it will probably be shelf 
Nice sixes on the Seq and weekly @SeaSun ! 
Daily Quordle 659
RAISE
CLOUT
TAPER - 3
OLDEN - 4
PULPY - 5
CHIME - 6
Daily Sequence Quordle 659
RAISE
SOUTH
STOCK
STOOD
STOOL - 5
BULLY
FULLY - 7
BUNCH - 8
WITCH
HITCH - 10
Barely made it 
Weekly Quordle Challenge 21
RAISE
CLOUT
FACET - 3
STEEL - 4
HOVEL
VOWEL - 6
MISTY - 7
Daily Quordle 660
RATED
PHONY
MUSIC
CUMIN
BLEND
FLUNK
GREED
Daily Quordle 659
SLATE
CHOIR
DUMPY
CHIME (4)
OLDEN (5)
PULPY (6)
TAPER (7)
All I could see was Gulpy…surely that’s not a word - lol. Oh…it’s Pulpy - the ol’ blind spot for a double letter rears it’s head again.
@chiliwillybing Nice 6! 
Your wizardry skills in action once again…Taper could have been Tamer, Taker, or Water, and Chime could have been Chide or Chive. Way to nail 'em!
@Robot_Arm I can say the same for you too! Good guesses on nailing Taper and Chime. 
EDIT: Oh I forgot you had Music…still, good guess on Taper though, but Taker doesn’t seem as likely, though if I recall it’s been a word before, I think.
@Robot_Arm Ignore me…I see you had all the letters for those words. Those three start words really do you well though!
Daily Sequence Quordle 659
SLATE
CHOIR
STOOL (3)
DUMPY
GULLY
FULLY (6)
HUNCH
BUNCH (8)
HITCH (9)
activated for two of the words, though I chose Fully over Bully after missing Gully, so getting a three-choice word on the second guess is a step in the right direction. 
And Hunch gave me the H in green for Hitch, else I’d be looking at another 50/50 to activate my superpowers on - lol.
I just stumbled on that combination of words one day, and they’ve worked pretty well. If I’d given it more thought, I might have tried to include an L. I may never get a 6, but I’m trying to never get more than a 9.
I wonder if anyone has tried to determine the optimum starting word(s), either with a simulation or by analyzing the results of all the games played. I’m missing the L in my starting words, which is a pretty common letter. C and H aren’t as common, but they help to solve words with -CK of -GHT endings.
Just last night I finished sedecordle (16 words) in 18 guesses. MUSIC was one of the answers.
I would probably continue to guess SHELF. Either word is just as likely to be correct, but SHELF (with L and F) is more likely to give me for the other unsolved words.
There might be something online somewhere that talks about that. A long time ago when I first started playing these word games, I saw people discussing what they felt were good start words (either two or three of them) - I can’t recall where I saw that…it could have been in the Wordle thread way back when. You could ask in that thread…there are a few folks in there that keep track of that sort of thing. I had written down a bunch of them that’d I use mostly for Sedecordle - I lost that document though, and can’t remember what they all were.
I would try to solve Sedecordle with just two words if I could…I don’t remember if I ever nailed one with my start words before, but I feel like I have - that’s always fun when that happens, given there are so many words.
We all have different goals - getting a 6 isn’t my ultimate goal, but it sure is fun when I get them. You mostly get 7’s it appears, and that’s great, as well as I’m sure you rarely if ever fail. My average is a 7, but I have a lot of 8’s and 9’s too, and some dreaded fails. I could reduce those if I tossed up a 3rd starter, but I kind of like the challenge without one, unless I really need the help and need to go with Dumpy or the like.
It would be very interesting to see the results of something like that, because much depends not just on which common letters but also their placement within the words as compared to the words in the answer list.
If you wanted to include the L, you could try
STARE
LUCID
PHONY
instead, which just switches out the M for the L and rearranges things a bit. Stare would also help you identify or eliminate any _ _a_e words right off the bat.
Daily Quordle 660
RAISE
COUNT
CUMIN - 3
FLUNG
FLUNK - 5
BLEND - 6
GREED - 7
Daily Sequence Quordle 660
RAISE
CHAIR
TRAIN - 3
PIANO - 4
SOGGY
SMOKY - 6
RAJAH - 7
Rajah? That’s different
I wish I was wizardly, LOL. No, I just picked taper because I dislike those ending in er words like tamer, taker and hater. I didn’t even see water. Chime I just picked because they use it more often. They seem to be getting rather predictable here lately, like today with cumin, flunk, piano, smoky, all recently used words and I still missed two of them
You could analyze it statistically, if you had access to a dataset representing lots of games. You could also simulated it. For any two or three starting words, and every combination of yellow and green clues, you’ll have some small number of valid answers. Run that test on every combination of starting words and see which one reduces the answer set to the smallest number.
That’s a good list, but I think I’ll stick to what I’ve been using. Force of habit.
Daily Quordle 661
RATED
PHONY
MUSIC
PERCH
CONCH
AGAIN
ANVIL
HAWKS
HATCH
I think HAWKS was a classic slueth word. I had two guesses left, and the last word could be HATCH, WATCH, or BATCH. (It couldn’t be CATCH because I’d already used a C as the first letter.) HAWKS gave me an H in first position and a W. If neither of those paid off, then I would have used BATCH for my last guess.
Daily Quordle 660
SLATE
CHOIR
DUMPY
CUMIN (4)
BLEND (5)
GREED (6)
FLUNK (7)
Daily Sequence Quordle 660
SLATE
CHOIR
TRAIN (3)
PIANO (4)
SMOKY (5)
AARGH!
RAJAH (7)
Yes, I really went with Aargh. Rajah…didn’t even occur to me - took me a bit to figure it out.
Daily Quordle 661
RAISE
COUNT
CONCH - 3
PERCH - 4
ANVIL - 5
BATCH
HATCH - 7
Good one! I was so happy that patch and catch were already eliminated that I forgot about watch, duh. I got lucky there.
Daily Sequence Quordle 661
RAISE
CHASE
AMUSE - 3
DRINK
DRIFT
DRILL - 6
SERUM -7
SILLY - 8
Those darn double Ls again 
Daily Quordle 662
RATED
PHONY
MUSIC
SCORE
SEDAN
BERET
AORTA
Daily Quordle 661
SLATE
CHOIR
DUMPY
PERCH (4)
CONCH (5)
ANVIL (6)
WATCH
HATCH (8)
Good thing it wasn’t Batch. One of my least favorite trap words (not that there are any good ones - lol).
You were luckier than you thought…there also was Match too!
@Robot_Arm Nice sleuth word with HAWKS!