VALET → Hit both vowels. But where to place? Swap them, so ?E?A?, or perhaps a silent E, so ??A?E… I kinda like the second of those. So try it with some common consonants…
SNARE → Good guess on the N! But not many consonants can go before it. If I try a vowel there, I’ll need to repeat the N, but let’s try…
INANE
Fun one.
Wordle 513 4/6
SLANT => Ok, but where? Let’s fish for more letters.
CHORE => That gives us some possible shapes, see below.
GABLE => Cutting down the options.
MAPLE Only other possibility AFAICT was LADLE.
This one was fun to work through. Didn’t really know enough after the first guess to take it on directly, so I went ahead with my standard second word. That gave me a few possible shapes: the FABLE, GABLE, LADLE, MAPLE group, VALUE/VALVE, and the outlier AGILE.
Any word in the first group would either point to or eliminate one or both of the other groups, so it came down to which word in the first group narrowed down that group best. I went with GABLE as the third guess because the G was also in AGILE, though I didn’t really need that; FABLE was really a better choice. But either way, after GABLE, I was down to MAPLE and LADLE, and the former seemed like a better bet.
Wordle 513 4/6
CRANE
TAILS
FAMED - Looking for letters. -For FABLE, M for MAPLE, etc. It’s the M word[
MAPLE
Wordle 513 4/6
SAUTE
CABLE
EAGLE
MAPLE
Wordle 513 6/6*
That was harder than it should have been!
ARISE
GLADE
LANCE
VALVE
TABLE
MAPLE
Wordle 513 4/6*
BEARD
CHEAT
ANGLE
MAPLE
Wordle 513 5/6
OVINE
CAUSE
BARGE
LATHE
MAPLE
Agreed!
I suppose LARGE would have been a smarter guess than BARGE. Other than that, I just ran into bad luck today, turning over black square after black square.
At least the black squares eliminated everything but the right answer in time.
Wordle 513 3/6
CRANE
ABATE - dumb choice
MAPLE - but it worked out
Ho hum, another 3. 
Wordle 513 3/6*
IRATE
PAUSE
MAPLE
WordleBot advises there was only 1 possibility after my second guess, and that appeared to be true based on my wrenching.
They must be getting easier.
Today’s seems to have been the exception, but so far since the NYT took over curating the Wordle solutions (starting with #506 I believe), they seem to have been much easier. Looking at how people have been doing in this thread, 3 seems to have been the average number of guesses every day, and an unusual number of 2’s. This is the first day since #506 that 4 seems to be the median number of guesses.
So if they were trying to make it harder, they didn’t exactly succeed.
Wordle 513 6/6
ROAST
VIOLA
FABLE
EAGLE
LADLE
MAPLE
VIOLA was a wasted guess as O had already been eliminated. Then, after FABLE, when I could see EAGLE, LADLE, and MAPLE, I guessed them in alphabetical order instead of looking for a test word to eliminate some from the list D, G, L, M, and P.
Oh, well.
Wordle 513 5/6*
BURST
ALIGN
PEDAL
LAPEL
MAPLE
Wordle 513 5/6*
LIONS
FLYER
PETAL
APPLE
MAPLE
WordleBot gave me a 90/99 for skill and a 29/99 for luck 
And agreed with Wheelz above, harder than it should have been
Wordle 513 5/6
COAST
FAIRY
LAUGH
NAVEL
MAPLE
I forgot to get the E in early, and I had the answer word on the board at 4…all typed in and ready to hit ok, but I changed my mind at the last second. It’s been a fairly easy month thus far with getting 3’s and 4’s, so I guess a 5 was due.
Wordle 514 6/6
RATIO
SHARE
SCARY
SWARM
SPARK
SNARL
Should have gone with the common letters first.
Wordle 514 5/6
CRAMS
STARE
SPARK
SHARD
SNARL
After 2 I could see spark, shark, shard and sharp. Spark was supposed to positively id the answer, but unfortunately I had not yet seen snarl.
INANE → Two vowels, one placed. Try some consonants…
PARSE → Placed the second vowel, and hit on the P.
TAUPE → Hmmm… ?AP?E… ?APOE and ?APEE go nowhere. Not many consonants can go in 4th… but L is one…
MAPLE
4th guess did take a while, though - I was thinking “MAP-el” before I realized “MAY-pel” was the right way to pronounce it…
Wordle 514 3/6
Slant
Snail
Snarl
Wordle 514 3/6
EARTH
LIONS
SNARL
Wordle 514 2/6
My second 2 in the new world.
CRANE
SNARL