COULD → middle U, only one vowel? Lot of possibilites with TSRH, but many have double consonants (e.g. TRUSS)
TRUMP → alas, he haunts my puzzling. OK, maybe another vowel try…
BRUIN → Gotta be ?RUN?, not many common letters left…
WRUNG
Elliminating T on the second guess took out a lot of possibles.
Wordle 225 5/6
Yesterday took me 6 guesses. Today was better.
Wordle 225 4/6
I got it in 3 today, too.
Wordle 225 3/6
IRATE
CROWD
WRUNG
A good guess for #3 had me at 4 today:
Wordle 225 4/6
BEAST
JUDGE
GRUNT
WRUNG
I’m finding Dordle fascinating. I’ve played about a dozen games, and never failed. How can it be that it sometimes takes six words to find a single solution, but a mere SEVEN words seem to be able to simultaneously solve two puzzles?
As for strategy, I’ve settled on just concentrating on ‘winning’ without caring about getting lower scores like I do with Wordle. I use the same three words for first guesses (they cover 15 different letters, include all the vowels plus Y) and only then put any thought into using the feedback. It was tight one time when I got one word worked out to SHA?E, but got lucky on the second option I tried.
On, and just because the link was so many messages ago:
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Thanks for mentioning this variant. First try:
Daily Dordle #0006 4&6/7
Shoulda gotten the one on the right in five, but made a silly error. The words were FJORD and JELLY, but somehow I got it in my mind that the word on the right had two Es, so tried JEWEL, only to realize that I already had a yellow E tested in the fourth position. Oops. Fun pair of words.
Maybe not in every case. I tried today’s Dordle and got it in 4/5 and it seemed straightforward enough:
Daily Dordle #0006 5&4/7 Jan 30th
TRACE
SIREN
REPLY
JELLY
FJORD
I wondered if the FiveThirtyEight Riddler strategy would help me get a 3/4 score, so I tried it on a random dordle. I used the strategy on one of the sides and got it in 3, but I was left with ?OUND as the only remaining possible set for the other one. No fewer than 7 candidates and only 4 tries left. It came down to luck as to whether or not I’d solve it.
Dordle 6&3/7 HOUND&CAGEY
I almost got it in two.
Wordle 225 3/6
Irate
Wring
Wrung
You would have got it in two if you’d remembered you already used that first vowel. 
Oh, sorry… I got that second word wrong.
Ah, that makes much more sense!
I feel that the popularity of Wordle is already starting to wane.
Anyway, here’s tomorrow’s. I did pretty good this time.
Wordle 226 3/6
Club 3
Wordle 225 3/6*
CRANK
BRING
WRUNG
Wordle 225 5/6*
Annoying when you get most of a word and there are multiple options for the remaining letters you can’t eliminate easily.
Definitely. Pure luck I happened to start with the right one of five different rhyming possibilities today.
TRACE
HOIST
LIGHT
Just as I got lucky for Wordle, I got unlucky for one of the Dordle words. There were only 3 possibilities left and I picked the correct one last.
Wordle 226 4/6*
AIERY
BIJOU
SIGIL
LIGHT
Eh.
I am having a weird problem today. Don’t know if it’s me, my laptop, or Wordle, but it’s weird.
First move I played THINK and it told me that my last two letters were good but in the wrong spot, so I played ANKLE, which is where it got weird: It wouldn’t allow it, telling me that the word had to contain a “T”–but I had a “T” in THINK, of course, and it told me (by graying the letter out) that it was wrong, that “T” appeared nowhere in the word. So I tried inputting ANKLE a few more times with that same result.
So I put on another cup of coffee and tried to awaken from this bad dream.
Wordle 226 3/6*
Much better today.
Grind
Legit
Light