Wordle 377 4/6
HEART
TOILS
PIVOT
PINTO
Wordle 377 3/6
EARTH
LIONS
PINTO
Wordle 377 3/6*
Eight
Tiara
Pinto
Wordle 377 5/6*
BEARD
QUILT
OPTIC
PITON
PINTO
As I may be offline for a few days, I’ve done tomorrow’s very early.
I can already imagine @Terminus_Est’s hint.
Wordle 378 5/6
Wordle 377 5/6*
IRATE
BLITZ
MISTY
WIDTH
PINTO
Yeesh.
Wordle 377 3/6*
Wordle 377 4/6*
PLAIN
PINCH
PINKY
PINTO
Now I can’t stop thinking about Blazing Saddles.
Wordle 377 4/6
ALONE
NOISY
INTRO
PINTO
A satisfying par; I didn’t have any brain farts for a change.
Kind of funny that I considered PITON at three but rejected it. Wouldn’t have changed the outcome though. No regrets trying R before P.
LOL!
#377 4/6
SLANT
CHORE
TOXIN
PINTO
After the first two, my third guess was literally the only word that came to mind. And after my third guess, I really had the devil of a time coming up with ANY word that would fit for my fourth guess. I must’ve played around for 20 minutes with pen and paper before it came to mind.
I assume that’s not a complaint. 
Is anyone else tempted to just order a cheapo Scrabble set from Amazon just to have letters to play around with?
And now that I took the time to compose this post I took the time to check Amazon. $8 for 300 pieces with one day delivery. Sold!
300 Wooden Tiles. Scrabble Classic Original Board Game Letters. Wood Gift Decoration & Scrabble Crossword Games. Deluxe scabble for Adults and Children. (300 Pieces) https://a.co/d/2z5bLnU
You can switch it to just 100 pieces for $7, which I would have done if I’d noticed before I ordered.
LOL, no, not a complaint. Funny where Wordle takes us, though!
I just use a pad of paper.
Take the messiest scenario: you know 3 of the letters, but don’t know where they belong. But of course you know one position where each of them doesn’t belong.
Absent that last part, there’d be P(5,3) = 543 = 60 possible ways to arrange those 3 letters in the 5 places they can go. But the locations they don’t belong will take out roughly half of those possibilities. It varies a little, but generally you’ll have in the close neighborhood of 30 possible arrangements. It takes a few minutes, max, to write them all down.
That’s not saying you shouldn’t get those Scrabble pieces from Amazon - whatever helps you visualize things best is what you ought to do. (And like I keep saying, it’s a game! Do what makes it fun for you.)
And getting away from whatever screen you’re looking at is a plus IMHO, once you’re to the point where playing with Scrabble pieces, or pen and paper, would be helpful. Because if you’ve got a few of those yellow/tan/whatever squares, it’s highlighting the places where the letters are now, but won’t be in the solution, and I usually think more clearly when I’m not looking at the board pointing me in the wrong direction.
It’s mainly for the second word for me. I try to play the 10 letters that make up ‘clamp store’ with my first two words. Exactly those letters, although substituting N for M is acceptable. How I get there is largely irrelevant, though I do have some minor preferences. (A or O in the middle, E at the end, CL or CR to start, etc…)
The problem is the feedback from the first guess limits how many new letters I can check in the second. This is where being able to move letters around would really help me. I’ll know the five letters I want to use, or possibly six if I haven’t used M or N yet, but sometimes they’re really hard to see.
So it may just be me.
EDIT: Just remembered that somebody checked the word talon recently, which combined with salon is another excellent ‘second word’ option for my strategy.
Wordle 377 5/6
STARE
TOUCH
OVOID
PILOT
PINTO
Took way too long.
For me it was exploding cars.
Now that’s something I hadn’t thought of! Fortunately, we already have a Scrabble set in my house…
That was supposed to be 5x4x3, only as is the norm, I used * as my multiplication sign. So the way Discourse works, it simply italicized the 4, and disappeared the multiplication operator. Grrr.