Wednesday, November 29th
Wordle 893 3/6
446
8
SLANT
CHORE
SUSHI - only other possibility was SWISH; liked SUSHI better
Really didn’t expect to see things narrowed down that much with just one green and one yellow after 2, but narrowed down it was. 
Wordle 892 4/6
SLATE
CHOIR
SCONE
SCOPE
Wordle 893 4/6
STERN
ALOUD
CHIMP — the only word left is sushi
SUSHI — and there you have it
Wordle 893 3/6
RATIO
SHINE
SUSHI
Wordle 893 4/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Q} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 893 4/6*
ALONE
SHIRT
SIGHS
SUSHI
That . . . took a while.
Wordle 893 4/6
RAISE
SPOIL
SIGHT
SUSHI
Wordle 893 4/6
HEART
SHINY
SWISH I knew I wasn’t #3 but had to fish for letters
SUSHI
Wordle 893 4/6
PLANT
SCORE
SQUID
SUSHI
After 2 I saw a swish, shush, squib and sissy, but I didn’t like any of them. Squib would be the only one I would try since it’s a real word – both a Hollywood blood pack to simulate getting shot and also a type of kick in football – but still didn’t like it enough to actually try.
Was about to sleep on it when squid came to me. That’s a real word! But no joy, and I was confused by the results so I slept on it. Then while brushing my teeth this morning, sushi came to me almost immediately after thinking about Wordle.
Wordle 893 4/6*
FREAK
MOUTH
DUCHY
SUSHI
That took a while!
I saw what you did there!
Now that’s funny as the pun was completely accidental!
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SCOPE → There’s something psychologically nice about seeing that first letter come up green, even if (as in this case) everythng else misses. OK, two more vowels and some comcons
SNAIL → Where should the I go? R & T still out there, and U, but I can’t put them all into one word. I’m seeing (ahem) one that checks the T - I’ll go for it on a lark
SIGHT → I still unplaced, but getting that H is cool. Not many words have ‘IH’ in them, so S??HI is most likely, with the U still alive looks like I’ll have to double up on the S for
SUSHI
My third guess did the job, but it turns out it was more likely to be wasted - Scoredle had more than a dozen non-bogus possibilities there. Lucky me!
Wordle 893 4/6
CAMEO
UNLIT
QUIRK
SUSHI
I had fun with this one!
After two, I was absolutely certain we were dealing with another Q here, and it took me a while to regroup.
So it has to either start with IU or end in I. Well, the latter is more likely, but I was drawing a blank for the longest time. Eventually I started pairing up consonants to go before the I, and finally hit on SH. Aha!
(It turns out QUIRK and SUSHI were the only real words left after two, so I was closer to a birdie than I realized.)
Wordle 893 3/6
SLATE
SUGAR
SUSHI - Total SWAG on this. Wordlebot was huffy about it.
Can’t see why. It turns out that the only wrong thing you could have done on 3 was fish for more letters. (Seems counterintuitive when you only had 2 letters, but this word seemed to work like that.) Per Scoredle, after tossing out the bullshit words, the only possibilities were Sunny, Sudsy, and Sushi, and if your third guess had been wrong, whichever of the three you guessed, it would have eliminated one of the other two. So given your 3rd guess, your worst case was a 4, and best case was the 3 that you got. Tell Wordlebot to stuff it. 
Wordle 893 4/6*
CRANE 97 6: My standard first guess, calculated by Grant Sanderson. I like having the S, T, and L available to come up with my second guess when I need to freelance and don’t remember what Wordlebot recommends. I did remember this case, though.
SOUTH 99 90: I think Wordlebot used to prefer SLOTH. There were two words left according to Wordlebot, but it took me forever to find them.
SHLUB 9 48: Having to put the U and H in other places was very constraining. It took me at least ten minutes to find a hard-mode possible answer. Finding out that the U and H went in other places might be the most frustrated I’ve felt playing this game – even more than my X/6s. Wordlebot would later add insult to injury with that skill score – I’m pretty sure that’s the lowest non-zero score I’ve gotten.
SUSHI 99 --: I don’t know how many 5-letter words end with U, but I eventually convinced myself that U had to be second. I don’t think there are any words starting SUH, so that puts the H fourth – but what’s third? Not a vowel, so… sugh? Suph? Sush? What about fifth? Y, possibly? Sughy? Suphy? Sushy? … oh.
What do the numbers mean, after each guess?
Those are Wordlebot’s skill and luck scores, on a scale of 0 to 99. Skill is a measure of how much a word is expected to reduce the number of possible words; luck measures how lucky your guess was.
As an example, my starting word is a very good choice (97/99), but it was unlucky for me that none of its letters were correct (6/99).
Hoist on my own petard! A 4 that should have been a 3.
Wordle 893 4/6*
IRATE
SPINY
SQUID
SUSHI
I felt like I was playing SOLID all over again! After my second try, I had SUSHI before SQUID, but due to my aversion to using double consonants, I decided to try SQUID first. Oops! WordleBot acted like I was a rock star, though. (I think it likes to see me fail.)