Wordle 504 3/6
TRACE
GREAT
DREAM
Glad to get this in 3…could have been a lot worse with that REA trap! Got lucky with choosing the right word out of a list of about 7 words it could have been. Though, I’m a little frustrated with myself…this is the 4th time in the last week that I’ve played a letter that wasn’t valid. 
Same! Just went with the one I was feeling the most and took a chance.
Wordle 505 4/6
CREPT
METAL
SLATE
STALE
Sad trombone noises on needing a 4th guess.
Wordle 505 4/6
RATIO
LEANT
ELATE
STALE
PHOTO → Strikeout!
RAISE → Lotta possibilities with those three letters… maybe it’s time for an N or M.
CREAM → Ooh, lucky! Could be BREAM in theory, but I’ll try
DREAM
I almost thought CRANE for the third guess until I saw the E had already gone last. Would have been a costly mistake.
Wordle 505 4/6
EARTH
LIONS
SLATE
STALE
Hmmm, lots of 4s.
Wordle 505 2/6
Slant
Stale
I got lucky with my first word.
Wordle 505 3/6
SLANT => Can I get this in 2?
STALL => Nope. So: STALK or STALE for the 3rd guess?
STALE => Won the coin toss.
It’s a good first word. It’s certainly working well for you!
Wordle 505 3/6
CRANE
GHOST - Could be SHA_E, STA_E, Several G words, or other.
Now, can be STA_E or SLATE, SKATE.
STALE
Wordle 505 3/6*
BEARD
FLAME
STALE
Wordle 505 4/6
NOISE
SHARE
SPACE
STALE
My first attempt these days is STARE, so I got this one in 2
Wordle 505 4/6
HEART
STATE
STAGE
STALE
Wordle 505 2/6
CRANE
STALE - I was really just trying to eliminate letters and lucked into it.
Wordle 505 5/6
RADIO
AMUSE
SHAKE
CLIPT
STALE
My vowel-heavy approach didn’t do me any favors today.
I came up with 9 possible S_A_E solutions, so a test word was prudent.
Wasn’t sure if CLIPT was a word, but it did what I needed it to, and I live to Wordle another day.
My streak of 3s continues.
Wordle 505 3/6*
IRATE
STAGE
STALE
Afterward, I realized there were 2 other possibles. But STALE popped into my head before anything else, and today that was lucky!
Of course, WordleBot made sure to cut me down to size by sharing that today’s average is 2.8.
< sigh… >
But it could have been STAGE, STAKE, STATE, or even STAVE. So a certain amount of luck.
Drat these words.
Wordle 505 X/6*
POUND
ERASE
SHAVE
STAGE
STAKE
STATE
Wordle 505 3/6
AROSE
SLATE
STALE
My second guess put me in a position I don’t think I’ve ever had with Wordle: three letters in confirmed position, with the other two letters confirmed as being in the word, but in the wrong positions. (So, just a switch.)
Two minutes total; I like those.
Maybe it was 2.8 at the time you played, but now 5:10 PM EST it says that the average is 3.2
Wordle 505 2/6
And I got 99% lucky today, thought of starting with CRANE but went with SLATE and so easily guessed STALE
DREAM → A vowel-heavy start. Try to find some consonants
SHAKE → Got one, and placed it and the vowels. Seems a little trap-adjacent, though. Can I at least get one consonant with the next guess? SC-, SL-, SP-, ST-, SW- are possible starts, I think L & T might be my best bets, then P & C.
SLATE → Welp, got two. So…
STALE
As an aside, recounting my third guess above involved typing no less than sixteen asterisks, a feat that, like a 300 game in bowling, may be equaled but never exceeded.
@BobLibDem, I’m curious on how you decided to go with STATE, with repeated T’s, as your second guess? I mean, it worked, but it’s a bit unconventional.