I have used crate many times. Also stare.
Wordle 938 2/6*
SLATE
HEARD
I got it in two! Lucky guess.
Wordle 938 3/6
PLANT
SCARE
HEARD
My struggles continue. This time inexplicably, in that I have no idea how it took me so long to see heard/beard. I was confident the answer would be of the form _EAR_, but I just couldn’t see that terminal D. Then finally saw both heard and beard almost at the same time. That brought up the dilemma: Go with the first thing I saw, or trust the B? Thankfully I chose correctly.
Wordle 938 3/6
SLATE
BEARD
HEARD
Wordle 938 4/6*
TROPE
SPEAR
REACH
HEARD
[spoiler]Wordle 939 3/6
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COAST
FOUND
DOING
Wordle 939 4/6
RATIO
NOISE
GOING
DOING
Another boring 4…
Wordle 939 4/6
STEEN
ALOUD
CHIMP
DOING
Wordle 939 4/6
210
26
3
SLANT
CHORE
BOUND
DOING - could’ve also been DOWNY
Summary
You’ve got traps to the left, traps to the right…
After 2, I figured the O was in the #2 slot. I saw DOING right away, but also realized that an OU vowel combination…oh wait, that’s the 8-trap! As in -OUND, preceded by your choice of BFHMPRSW.
Turns out the 8-trap has been mostly de-fanged, since FHPRS have already been used. (And my first two words had knocked out HRS anyway.) But that still left BOUND, MOUND, WOUND. And -OING was a mini-trap too, with GOING as well as DOING, and possibly the sound-effect BOING.
Also, just before I noticed the 8-trap, I’d thought I should check for words ending in Y, which is the second most frequent 5th letter in Wordle solutions. But the traps distracted me, and I never did get back to that, so if the solution had been DOWNY, I’d have gotten a 5. Fortunately, it wasn’t. (After 2, BONNY was also still a possibility. And OWING. If the latter had been the solution, it would have been the only possibility after 3; the hard part would have been finding it!)
So I went with BOUND on 3, which would have told me which trap I was in, and narrowed it down to 2 possibilities in the 8-trap and just one in the -OING trap. So DOING on 4 for the win, and as already noted, lucky it wasn’t DOWNY.
Wordle 939 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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt D} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 939 3/6
RAISE
GUILT
DOING
Wordle 939 4/6*
ALONE
MOUNT
DOWNY
DOING
Wordle 939 4/6
PLANT
SCONE
BOUND
DOING
Last night after 2 I was sure it was the _ound trap, but I was too tired to go through the previous answers. Falling asleep I thought of shrub as a sleuth word. This morning, previous answers eliminated most of the trap letters, leaving only three. I figured I’d shoot for the 3 with the first one I had seen, which also let me trust the B. When that U came up black it was a real “Doh!” moment.
I did see downy but dismissed it as a brand name. I’m fortunate it wasn’t downy.
Wordle 939 4/6
HEART
SPOIL
IDIOM
DOING
Wordle 939 4/6
SLATE - groan
POUND
DOWNY - [quote=“RTFirefly, post:5309, topic:981659”] could’ve also been DOWNY[/quote] - Yes. . .yes it could
DOING - Took me forever to get of the long ‘o’ sound
Downy feathers on a baby bird, etc.
The word I was wondering about on account of today’s Wordle is BONNY. It can be a girl’s name, but it’s also an adjective (a ‘bonny lass’) but its flavor is mostly Scottish; AFAICT it doesn’t get used much that way in American English.
It’s the sort of word that might or might not be on the solutions list. (I’m happy to leave it in that state of indeterminacy.)
Wordle 939 3/6* 1/14/2024
HEARD → Well, at least it knocks off some high-frequency letters. I’d like to try two of STLN to go with I & O, can I build a letter that also uses the D? Can’t be SOLID, I need to place D… so
DINOS → That worked well. Rearrange INO… DOINT? or
DOING
DOILY would have been as good or better a second guess by my criteria, while Scoredle wanted to try DOWDY, so I guess had had more than my share of luck.
Wordle 939 4/6*
LEAST
POUCH
WOODY
DOING
I just thought of something regarding the used word list. If I think of word to use, and it’s on the list, what if it is the correct word just added today? What time is it updated?
It’s a boring 4 kind of day, except for all the clever 3s!
Wordle 939 4/6*
IRATE
SPINY
BLINK
DOING
Hey, my 4 was an interesting 4! 
