Well, at least it was quick…
Wordle 289 5/6
MANGE
FRACK
PLAID
SHALL
SHAWL
Wordle 289 4/6
SCRAP
STOLE
SHADY
SHAWL
I’ve been tanking it lately but this one was noticably sloppy. First I didn’t reuse the A in my second word, then I didn’t reuse the L in my third. The first mistake didn’t hurt, but the second cost me an extra guess.
I was going to post my scores after 60 but I had just posted a bunch of good scores in a row, so it felt like cherry picking. By contrast, my last 6 games I scored 4, 6, 3, 3, 6, 4. (Neat, it’s a palindrome.) Two 6s this week, ouch! So anyway, now feels like a better time for a score check.
68 games played, 100%
2: 4
3: 29
4: 22
5: 8
6: 5
2*4 + 3*29 + 4*22 + 5*8 + 6*5 = 253 / 68 = 3.721 average
I can’t believe I got two 6s this week. Just rough.
Wordle 289 3/6*
ALTER
SNAIL
SHAWL
Wordle 289 5/6*
CHIDE
SHAFT
SHARP
SHALL
SHAWL
That’s why playing in hard mode can be useful. It will stop and tell you if you haven’t used a letter.
Wordle 289 5/6*
Well, a five is a lot better than a fail, so I’m more pleased than with the previous one.
TEAMS
SNACK
SOAPY
SHARD
SHAWL
Wordle 289 5/6
AIERY
LOTUS
MUNCH
SHALL
SHAWL
I am surprised Wordle took that word…I believe it’s actually spelled with a dash in between = up-bow. At least when I looked it up, that’s how it was spelled. Makes me wonder how many five letter words have a dash (can’t think of any off top of my head, but Wordle could use them for the “word of the day” maybe).
Wordle 289 2/6
PEARL
SHAWL
Well howdy doo, I got it in two! That was a nice surprise. I had a few choices as to what to try, but the word it ended up being came to me first, and so that’s what I went with. Gut instinct wins again. 
Wordle 289 5/6
SPANK
SMART
SCALE
GHOUL
SHAWL
I am glad I don’t play on hard mode because the funnest part of the game for me is finding a word in the midgame that uses none of the green letters. Even better if it also uses a yellow letter in a grey position so that every letter will give me more information.
Wordle 289 5/6
TRACE
LIONS - Ignoring the green A, going for more letters
FLASH - Had SHALL on the screen but changed my mind. I didn’t want to waste a space. But, after the result I realized I should have used SHALL
SHALL - I thought I had it, but not quite.
SHAWL
Wordle 289 6/6*
I think I didn’t pick good words, and screwed up on the 4th one by again forgetting that I already knew those letters were in the wrong spot.
QUERY
TOPIC
FLASK
GLASS
SHALL
SHAWL
Wordle 289 3/6*
Youth
Chalk
Shawl
Wordle 289 4/6
HEART
SHADY
SHALL
SHAWL
Harder than it should have been
Wordle 289 4/6* 4/4/2022
FEWER → The only letter I hit on is the one I didn’t use yesterday…
WAIST → Is there an O or U? Let me check more consonants…
SWAMP → That narrows things down. If the W is fourth, it should be
SHAWL
Getting the early W helped on this one, though I needed all four guesses to place it correctly.
Wordle 289 4/6*
BEARD
TWAIN
WHACK
SHAWL
Splendid.
Wordle 289 3/6
ARISE
SHOAL
SHAWL
A somewhat lucky second guess. Didn’t we just have SHALL a short time ago? Usually I don’t much remember past words, but I was thinking about using SHALL in the third spot and then realized it was already used. So SHAWL it is.
What are there, another couple thousand wordles? I don’t think it’s going to be realistic for me to change my opener every day over the long haul.
I think I’m just going to stick with the CL and CR openers. I’ve got about a dozen of each; that’ll have to be good enough for the foreseeable future. I’ve been doing significantly worse with other openers.
Bah. Wordle outsmarts me again!
Wordle 289 4/6*
IRATE
CHALK
SHALL
SHAWL
I had the correct word and would have tried it third, but I outsmarted myself, thinking, “Wordle always uses double letters when I try for all different letters. I’ll do that instead.” Oops.