Very, very tough. After guess 3 I knew the “I” had to be in position 1, 2, or 5. I ran through the whole alphabet (non-cancelled letters, anyway) for any possibilities for the first two and then was left with that “position 5,” which had to be a foreign-loan word. Threre are not a lot of those. (OKAPI, SWAMI, UMAMI, and KHADI have been mentioned. I’ve never heard of that fourth one; such an educational game!*)
Anyway, finally got there.
*a type of cloth promoted by M. Gandhi, apparently.
I ended up in a trap after three and went on a letter hunt. I had it down to two options. I seriously don’t know how people are getting these in three. I feel like I’m lucky to get it at all.
Seems to me we’ve done the _O_ER thing a few times already. My first test word came up empty and I still had half a dozen possible words. Sheesh. Lots of work for this one.
After solving I remember feeling like power had already been an answer, meaning that would have been a wasted guess for me at 3. But then I thought I was just remembering having used it as a guess the last time that pattern came up.
Kind of took the scenic route to agreeing with you there; we’ve seen that pattern before at least once, possibly multiple times. Straining my memory, I think maybe mower was one of the answers.
KHAKI → Wasn’t expecting much; wasn’t disappointed. Getting a singular K is a minor coup, though…
DRECK → Really though it would be a CK ending. So K is second or middle! Perhaps an ER ending… POKER
The K did end up being significant. I was so hung up on ending with a CK that I didn’t think of a better second word…
Seems to me we’ve done the _O_ER thing a few times already.
Well, POWER was just a few weeks ago…
Wordle 422 4/6
SLANT
CHORE
DOPER
POKER
There was no way I was going to get this in fewer than 4, and I feel I played this one well to get it in that many tries, after drawing a blank on my starting word. Getting the ORE with my second word, with none of them in the right positions, left me about 18 possibilities, just assuming the vowels in the 2nd and 4th slots.
You’ll be amused by the word I used to narrow things down with my third try.
That got me down to just POWER and POKER, but since one of those had been used already, it had to be the other one.
The “_O_ER” trap required me to test at least six consonants for the words that would fit and hadn’t yet been winning words. Of course that wasn’t possible, so I settled for testing B, C, and K. Still took two more guesses–a real “whew.”
