Been I while since I got a 2!
Wordle 259 2/6
TRIAL
BRINE
I was thinking either BRINE or CRIME and chose correctly. It could also have been GRIME, GRIND, PRIDE, PRICE, BRIDE, BRING, WRING, DRINK, and probably a few others, so I definitely got lucky with this one.
Wordle 259 3/6
GREAT
CHIMP
BRINE
AHEAD → not a lot to go on, but the next should be…
STORE → Probably another vowel in there - and should the R be first or second?
GRIPE → For a while, thought between CRIME and BRIBE, but came up a third possibility without two Bs…
BRINE
Getting the terminal E early helped. Also, good thing I bought Trader Joe’s Authentic Greek Feta last night.
Wordle 259 4/6*
IRATE
PRIZE
BRIDE
BRINE
Would have had it in 4 but tried BRIDE first. It’s basically the game of Ghost as I knew it where you just return the number of matching letters. A little easier with the graphic interface that tells you something about letter positions. Lots of good first start words, EITHER, ROAST, YEAST, and many more but the letter frequency and double letters can put the target word far away from your guess.
Interestingly we had two very different first words and the exact same last two.
RATIO
SPIRE
Wordle 259 5/6*
RATIO
LAIRS
PRIDE
GRIME
BRINE
Does anybody else play in self-imposed “Super-hard mode”? It’s not an option in the regular Wordle setttings though some of the variants allow it. If a letter is ruled out by a previous guess, you can’t use it in any subsequent guesses, and if a letter is shown in a specific spot, you must use it in that spot for all subsequent guesses. I play this way to punish myself for earlier cheating with word lists, anagram solvers, etc.
I always played in self-imposed “Super-hard-mode,” as you put it, even before I turned on Hard mode. Still do. I turned on Hard mode so I would stop making a dumb mistake, like using letters I’d already ruled out.
Except then I learned that even in Hard mode, Wordle would let me make that dumb mistake. Happened to me yesterday when I used WHEAT after I’d already ruled out that letter with my first try, IRATE. Pretty annoying.
sheesh.
Wordle 259 6/6*
That’s not embarrassing! Seven is embarrassing. 
Cool, thanks. I’ve been surprised by some that Wordle calls ‘words’ — e.g., ABORD. I looked it up and it’s an archaic word meaning approach or accost. I mean, really?
Heh, yes. 
Good point.
It’s been funny, sometimes when checking whether something actually IS a word or not, to see Google Search showing that guessed collection-of-letters trending that day. “Shead,” anyone???
Yeah, probably. No big deal (though of course none of us would like to see it happening often!)
Wordle 259 4/6:
STARE, GROPE, BRIDE, BRINE. Less of a slog than I experienced the day before, for sure.
This one was way harder for me than it should have been.
Wordle 260 4/6
AEONS
BROOM
QUOTE
CLOTH
Wordle 260 3/6
PLAIN
CLOUT
CLOTH
Wordle 260 3/6*
This worked out surprisingly well
CHEAT
COUTH
CLOTH
Wordle 260 2/6
CRATE
CLOTH
Got so excited when the first 3 flipped over on the 2nd guess, but alas.
Wordle 260 3/6
FLAIR
CLOUT
CLOTH
Wordle 260 2/6*
ALERT
CLOTH
Wordle 260 3/6*
Stear
Light
Cloth
This one gave me more trouble than it should’ve.
Wordle 260 5/6
TRANS
LOUIE
FLOAT
ZLOTY
CLOTH