STAGE → A & E, A placed, E not last (and probably not 1st or 4th either). Vowels are looking good, so try a couple more common consonants.
DEALT → Could be BEARD, if the D is last, or if not, we could try…
HEADY
So a lucky pickup for the three but I’ll take it, as I haven’t been on the right side of par for a while now. Ironically, the two common consonants I tried for the second guess missed, while the less common one that hit was the key to the solution.
The highs and the lows
Wordle 601 X/6*
Wordle 601 4/6
COYER
BEAMY
HEAVY
HEADY
Add me to the Heavy > Heady club! After my second word, I had 6 words I could see, but I wasn’t able to come up with a sleuth word that would check enough of them. I had been feeling the word “Heavy” before I played my second word, so I just went with that. Good choice, which let me get it in 4.
Wordle 601 3/6*
CHOIR
STASH
HEADY
Luckily for me I didn’t see HEAVY or HEAVE
Wordle 602 3/6
ASIDE
COURT
DEBUG
It was either UNWED, UNFED, or DEBUG. Just a lucky guess.
Wordle 602 4/6
RATIO
DUNES
DEUCE
DEBUG
Wordle 602 4/6*
ALONE
USHER
DEBUT
DEBUG
Wordle 602 4/6
CRANE
SLEET
DUMPY - I often use this word when I have little information after the second word
DEBUG - DUMPY gave enough information
Wordle 602 4/6*
FEINT
MEDAL
WEEDY
DEBUG
Wordle 602 3/6*
BEARD
DEBIT
DEBUG
I outwitted myself on this one. 
Wordle 602 5/6
NOISE
CLUED
REDUX
DEBUT
DEBUG
Wordle 602 4/6
CRIMP
STALE
BENDY (like the straw!)
DEBUG
Took me five or more minutes to figure it out after 3. What word has both a B and a D but doesn’t end in E?! (So no budge, etc…) Finally I thought of debut. It was already eliminated because of the T but that led me immediately to debug. Yay!
For the first couple minutes I just kept thinking of Deebo Samuel from the 49ers. That was not helpful.
Wordle 602 5/6
DEATH
DECRY
DENIM
BEFOG
DEBUG — as someone whose career was as mostly a SW tester, I should’ve guessed this earlier on. But noooooooooo…
I spent an embarrassingly long amount of time mulling whether debud was worth trying.
Wordle 602 5/6
HEART
FEIGN
GELDS
DEGUM
DEBUG
Miraculous recovery on this one.
Wordle 602 4/6
CRANE
SPOIL - Gah!
DEBUT - Incredibly lucky, although it had to either be another ‘e’ or a ‘u’.
DEBUG
Up early. Sometimes I think I do better at this when my brain hasn’t quite engaged yet.
Wordle 602 4/6*
IRATE
SHELF
EBONY
DEBUG
Glad for a 4 today.
Wordle 602 4/6
SLANT
CHORE
GIMPY
DEBUG
After the first 3 guesses, I had just 2 letters, and the positions of neither. The solution was the first legit possibility I came up with, and it took me forever to find it. So I’m quite happy to escape with a 4.
Wordle 602 3/6
OVINE
DREAM
DEBUG
D was the least likely hit at two. Decided to try for another vowel and there it was.
My first trey in over a week.
Wordle 601 4/6
STARE
MEALY
HEAVY
HEADY
Another HEAVY - HEADY. I was surprised that HEAVY hadn’t yet been a winner; presumably it will be, someday.
Wordle 602 4/6
OUTER
EQUIP
BEAUS
DEBUG
I knew BEAUS, as a noun made plural by addition of S, could not be the solution, but I just couldn’t think of anything else and needed the information on position of letters, etc. After that it was a systematic listing of _EBUC, _EBUD, _EBUF, etc. (_E_UB, with the B definitely at the end, did not seem to yield any English words of five letters.)