Wasn’t sure I was going to get this one.
Wordle 428 4/6*
URINE
AWOKE
HAWSE
WASTE
Should’ve gotten tomorrow’s in four.
Wordle 429 5/6
Wordle 428 3/6
AROSE
SCALE
WASTE
After guess 2 I didn’t know it was “_ASTE,” but thought I should try one of those words next. CASTE was ruled out by guess 2 and I didn’t think of HASTE; that left me with BASTE, PASTE, TASTE, and WASTE. I couldn’t think of a test word that used any three of B, P, T, W----so I decided to just try what I figured was the most common-in-English of the four words to confirm whether or not this actually was a “_ASTE” trap. And got lucky.
Twerp is probably in the guess list. My first thought was Tebow but that’s a name, not a word.
Tomorrow’s Wordle, Today
Finally, some recognition.
Wordle 429 3/6
Wordle 429
FLAME
MINER
MERIT
Wordle 428 6/6
LOAMY
CABIN
PAGER
HAUTE
BROWS
WASTE
I’ve been trying different words than I usually do for my first three guesses, but it hasn’t been paying off. Haute was probably a wasted guess as I wasn’t sure it’d be a word, but it gave me the U and T to check (I didn’t go with Saute as that’s already been an answer word). And then I saw I had three choices of words (taste, baste, and waste), but only two more guesses. Yikes. I came up with a word (brows) that would show me which of the three it’d be, and Waste it was. At least it wasn’t a fail!
Wordle 429 4/6
CREPT
HEART
FIRMS
MERIT
Not my finest effort. Would have really helped if I had checked M to start. After 2 I could see reset, remit, beret, and for some reason I thought ferret was spelled with one R. If I had realized, I would have guessed brims at 3. Either way, that gave me all five letters, three of them green.
Not that it matters, but I got today’s in two guesses. It’s been a while since I got lucky.
Wordle 429 3/6
RATIO
STRIP
MERIT
Wordle 429 3/6*
ROUTE
RETCH
MERIT
Careless to use the R in a known wrong position on second guess so a 3 is better than I deserve
Wordle 429 4/6
EARTH
TERSE
BERET
MERIT
Wordle 429 4/6
CRANE
OILER
REMIT - with 3 greens and 2 yelllows the answer is obvious
MERIT
Wordle 429 3/6*
← 
BEARD
REMIT
MERIT
Wow !
Wordle 429 4/6
This one was genuinely fun. I came up with a new starting word that I didn’t even think was a word, and it gave me enough info that on each subsequent guess, I thought I had a real shot at the solution, and AFAICT had it narrowed down to a single possibility by my fourth try.
SLART
DRIFT
RIGHT
MERIT
- What’s the deal with my new first word? Is it really a word? It’s not in my dictionary, but Google says it is, and provides a definition. My motivation was that while I’ve been using SLANT for months, it lacks R which is by far the most common consonant in Wordle solutions. So I tried SLART (ibartfast) just for the hell of it, and much to my surprise, it was accepted. Who knew?
- From there, it was a question of whether the R was in the first, second, or third spot. I thought second was most likely, because of all the consonant combinations with R as the second letter. So I went with that, then tried R as the first letter (thought for sure I was RIGHT on my third try, but RIGHT was wrong
), and only lastly tried it in the third slot.
Yes I teed it up quite nicely for you. Anyway, I dropped another deuce today.
Wordle 429 2/6
HEART
MERIT
Wordle 429 5/6*
Fiery
Irate
Tribe - wasn’t paying attention
Remit
Merit
Wordle 429 5/6*
SHARE
CRUEL
REIGN
FERMI
MERIT
Wordle 429 3/6
RAISE
TIMER
MERIT
Well, that’s an interesting pattern. I don’t think I’ve ever had five blues (yellows) before. I assumed it was going to be a _I_ER word, and I was waffling between LINER and TIMER. Glad I went with the latter!
That’s one reason I doubt I’ll ever play the hard version: there’s no escape from a trap like that, other than guessing which of several possible solutions is the right one.
Wordle 429 4/6
LOAMY
SMITE
REMIT
MERIT
Joining the Remit Merit club. 