Daily Quordle 672
RAISE
ASIDE - 2
COUNT
CLUMP - 4
DIMLY - 5
VOCAL
LOCAL - 7
I had a feeling it was going to be local, but I just had to try vocal so as not to go for the double L 
Daily Sequence Quordle 672
RAISE
PILOT
CIVIL
VIGIL - 4
SIXTH - 5
LEDGE
LUNGE - 7
SPURN - 8
I shoulda used that dumb V here, but of course I didn’t 
Daily Quordle 673
RATED
PHONY
MUSIC
PESKY
PIECE
TABLE
BASTE
BRACE
TABLE wasn’t a perfect sleuth word, but it worked out.
Daily Quordle 672
SLATE
CHOIR
DUMPY
DIMLY(4)
ASIDE (5)
CLUMP (6)
LOCAL (7)
Dumpy sure came in handy, and I got a 50/50 right! 
Daily Sequence Quordle 672
SLATE
CHOIR
PUPIL
VIGIL (4)
SIXTH (5)
BULGE
LUNGE (7)
SPURN (8)
Vigil stumped me…I knew there had to be two I’s, but I just wasn’t seeing it.
Weekly Quordle Challenge 23
STONE
CHAIR
FUDGY
EBONY
PEONY (5)
BUGGY (6)
BLARE
BRAKE (8)
ZILCH (9)
This was a bit of a challenge for me 
. I couldn’t think of a good sleuth word to cover all of the words I was seeing, but Fudgy helped a bit (I thought #3 was going to be the Blare, Flare, Glare trap). I saw both Ebony and Peony but chose wrong, except Ebony helped me solve those two B words at least, but I picked wrong on Blare-Brake too. I laughed when I saw Zilch…that almost came true for me.
Weekly Challenge #23 
Weekly Quordle Challenge 23
RAISE
COUNT
EBONY
PEONY - 4
LIVID
BRAKE - 6
BUGGY - 7
FILCH
ZILCH - 9
That was a tough one. I used livid to help sleuth out brake or brave and bully, buddy or buggy and also to place the i in the 2nd word. I too almost zilched
Daily Quordle 673
RAISE
POUCH
PIECE - 3
BRACE - 4
BASTE - 5
PESKY - 6
Pouch to help sort out what I thought would be _aste, but then it gave me piece, brace and pesky too 
Daily Sequence Quordle 673
RAISE
COMPT
GRIPE - 3
DIVVY
GRAZE - 5
UNWED
UNFED - 7
STRUM - 8
I’ve pretty much completely abandoned hard mode at this point, with wordle too. It’s much more enjoyable to root out good sleuth words than it is to just guess and hope for the best. Compt to sort out _ri _e and divvy for gra_e. Nice to find compt, that will probably come in handy again some day.
Daily Quordle 674
RATED
PHONY
MUSIC
OMEGA
KOALA
ABOVE
TROLL
After my first three words, I thought I was in trouble. Then I got a little lucky with OMEGA, which also gave me the final A in KOALA.
Daily Quordle 673
SLATE
CHOIR
BRACE (3)
BASTE (4)
JUICE
DEICE
NIECE
PIECE (8)
PESKY (9)
Not one of my better efforts…played too fast again without thinking things through. Deice was a wasted guess, but it was all I could see after Juice didn’t hit…it looked weird though, like it should have a hyphen after De, but I went for it. Thankfully Piece gave me the P for the last word to solve.
Daily Sequence Quordle 673
SLATE
CHOIR
QUIRE
PRIME
GRIPE (5)
DIVVY
GRAZE (7)
UNFED (8)
THRUM (9)
Divvy was to sleuth out the Grade, Grave, Graze trap.
I agree! And I see we both used Divvy to sort out that trap word. It was that or Dizzy.
Nice 6 in Quordle! 
Daily Quordle 674
RAISE
COUNT
ABOVE - 3
OMEGA - 4
KOALA - 5
TROLL - 6
Triple vowel day. That narrows it down a lot right off the bat. a_o_e could have been a few things but I was feeling above and was right for a change. Omega, koala and troll were all shoo-ins.
Daily Sequence Quordle 674
RAISE
LINTY
DWARF
HILLY - 4
MICRO - 5
WROTE - 6
BIRCH - 7
Dwarf for _illy, which placed the R for micro as well
An extra little bit of fun is seeing what sleuth words we come up with I started to use vivid then figured I might as well check for the Y too.
Linty is a good one for me, I was trying to think of something that had the L,N and T.
And koala gave you the L for troll I really appreciate the puzzles that play like that, where each word helps with the next, they seem very well thought out.
I don’t know that I have any go-to sleuth words; it depends on what I’m trying to sleuth out. The ones I find most interesting are when there’s a possibility of a re-used letter in the mix. For example:
_LACK
Could be BLACK, FLACK, or SLACK; but it could also be CLACK.
SCOFF would not be a perfect sleuth word. If you get a yellow hint on the C, that doesn’t give you any information because there’s another C.
COMBS would be better.
Sometimes those are the hardest ones. You’d have to use a word that begins with C, like carbs. If the c came up yellow you’d know it was flack. But you could also just use buffs and if nothing hit, then it would be clack.
Of course the more letters you need to test for the trickier it gets, like yesterday’s _aste could have been H, B, C, P, W or T, there’s no easy way to sleuth that if you haven’t already canceled some of the letters out.
You might be able to make good use of a sleuth word if you had several letters that you needed to test for at once, but I’m guessing that seldom happens with your starting method.
Those always make me a little nervous. Technically, the example I gave could have also been ALACK or PLACK, though those are probably too uncommon to be the answer.
For _ASTE, I would have already used P and H. I don’t see a perfect sleuth word among what’s left.
Daily Quordle 675
RATED
PHONY
MUSIC
ABOUT
BERTH
BRIAR
AMBLE
Daily Quordle 674
SLATE
CHOIR
TROLL (3)
KOALA (4)
ABODE
ABOVE (6)
GENOA
OMEGA (8)
I didn’t see Omega. It wasn’t the only choice though…I grew up in a sailing family, so Genoa came to me, and that was all I could see. However, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it be an answer before (I’ve used it before for guesses).
Nice 6, by the way…two days in a row! 
Lucky guess with Above! There were several words that one could be.