Looks like 4 is a respectable score today. (Or so I tell myself.)
Wordle 618 4/6*
IRATE
CHORE
FORCE
WORSE
My word listlooks like a bad day I hope no one is having.
Wordle 618 4/6
Practically played itself today.
READY
STORE
ROUSE
WORSE
Slart?
Well, I suppose it is a word. And as long as you’re not in “hard” mode, checking as many consonants as possible as quickly as possible is a viable strategy.
ETA: Huh. I could have sworn I typed strategy.
ETA: Strategy.
ETA: Stra-Ge-Ty
ETA: Good. Stragety.
Thought I was gonna have to change my handle to Bugs_Bunny for a minute there.
Wordle 618 3/6*
CRATE
HORSE
WORSE
Wordle 618 4/6
ABOUT
ROSIN
SORRY
WORSE
At three, I hadn’t realized E was still out there; otherwise I might have scored the trey. But at least I picked WORSE over HORSE and avoided a five.
That reminds me: I’ve been meaning to ask who has the longest current win streak on here. I think I did for a while, but I lost it a few weeks back.
Just curious.
Wordle 618 4/6* 2/27/2023
SYRUP → Not a bad start. Where to try the S? Probably not the end, and ASROC is an acronym, so - 4th? What should I try…
FIRST → OK, not bad. I’d like to get another couple vowels out of the way, though… perhaps E & O? My kingdom for a…
HORSE → So close. NORSE? MORSE? GORSE? Oh, there’s one better word, the others are…
WORSE
I was a little scared at the end, which looked like a trap.
Wordle 618 4/6
[Long and probably not very interesting discussion of my current starting word follows]
Summary
Sure it’s a word! It’s short for ‘Slartibartfast.’ 
Anyhow, I tripped over it totally by accident sometime early last fall, I think, and only used it once or twice before going back to SLANT as my starting word. Reason being I had good followup words to SLANT if it didn’t yield enough info on its own, but I didn’t for SLART. Recently I came up with a good followup, though.
Yeah, I’m definitely a consonants-first guy. I figure that if I get the consonants, filling in the vowels won’t be that hard. Vice versa? Not so much, at least for me: there’s only 6 vowels (counting Y, which is a vowel about 90% of the time in this game) but there’s 19 consonants, excluding Y and Q. So if you’ve got the vowels, that’s a lot of consonants to have to check. (I think of Q less as a consonant in and of itself than as a QU[vowel] combination, which is worth thinking about only if there’s room for it in a 5-letter word.)
But why SLART over SLANT? The answer is that R is the most frequent consonant in this game, and L,R,S, and T gave me (a) the four most common consonants, and (b) consonants that are in a metric ton of consonant combinations. N is #5, so my starting word was going from #2,3,4,5 to #1,2,3,4.
That’s the theory anyway. I’ve only been using SLART for maybe a week and a half. Come back in a month and I’ll tell you whether it seems to be making a difference.
Wordle 618 4/6
ROAST
HORSE
WOMEN
WORSE
WOMEN, of course, was a test word. I saw GORSE, MORSE, NORSE, and WORSE. I wasn’t entirely sure that Wordle would rule out MORSE and NORSE (though I thought it should). And WORSE is certainly more common than GORSE, so I could have thrown caution to the winds and gotten a 3, but…what the heck.
Same here! Was it a HORSE of a different color?
Wordle 618 4/6*
SLATE
NOISE
HORSE
WORSE
WordleBot says that today’s average score is 4.1
We slid in under the wire! 
Wordle 618 4/6
MEANT
SLICE
ROUSE
WORSE
Tuesday, February 28th
Wordle 619 5/6
CLOTS
LONER
FOLLY
POLIO
POLKA
At this point I’m just bad at this game. Both P and A are cornerstones of my strategy, yet I didn’t check either. It took me five guesses to check five vowels; that’s just not good.
Two more days until I hit 400, and if I win them both I will beat my previous longest streak of 199.
I think I’ll come up with a different strategy going forward. (After 400.) Different starting words, different letters to check, etc…
Wordle 619 4/6
RATIO
SHOAL
ALLOW
POLKA
Not upset with a four.
Wordle 619 4/6*
HOUSE
POINT
PORKY
POLKA
Wordle 619 4/6
DEATH
SCOUR
GIMPY
POLKA
Wordle 619 4/6
CRANE
TOILS
LOYAL
POLKA
Wordle 619 3/6
ABIDE
SOLAR
POLKA
Wordle 619 4/6*
ALONE
SHOAL
LABOR
POLKA
That second word was a mistake.
Wordle 619 5/6
READY
AUDIO (just to clear out all unusable vowels)
WOMAN (so, the A has to be in position 5)
POOKA (there HAVE been a lot of doubled letters lately)
POLKA