Wow, a five-second three and I beat the Bot!
Wordle 967 3/6
CRANE
ENTER
NEVER
Wordle 967 3/6*
LEAST
FEVER
NEVER
Boom.
Yesterday:
Wordle 966 4/6
IRATE
CRIER
DRIED
FRIED
Since I forgot to play until about 11pm and had been drinking most of the day, I’m happy with this result!
Wordle 967 3/6
AUDIT
LONER
NEVER
Fun to nail a birdie after a clean miss at one.
Wordle 967 3/6
PLANT
SNORE
NEVER
Another labor intensive one where I spent much of the day coming up with possible answers. None of which would positively identify among the others, so I just went with the one I felt most likely to be the answer. Lucked out with never.
Wordle 967 3/6*
TROPE
REACH
NEVER
WordleBot says “You got it! With 24 words still to choose from, this was a very lucky guess.” And it rated me at just 79/99 for skill.
Wordle 967 4/6
SLATE
CHOIR
DEMUR
NEVER
MON FEB 12
Wordle 968 4/6*
ALONE
TRASH
PITAS
PASTA
Wordle 968 4/6
RATIO
CASTE
PHONY
PASTA
I am proud that I actually put a little thought into this one. After two I was thinking xASTY so instead of guessing one of those words to see I went with a sleuth word that also ended in Y which eventually got me a four instead of five.
And how was your Super Bowl party?
Can somebody please spoiler the above? I did message the mods. It won’t let me do it and I feel terrible for messing up. I thought that I had the spoiler tags in the quote.
Wordle 968 4/6
PLANT
PASTE
PASTY
PASTA
Doh!
[spoiler]Wordle 968 3/6
[/spoiler]
SLATE
NASTY
PASTA
Wordle 968 3/6
218
20
SLANT
HASTE
PASTA → coulda been PASTY, but didn’t seem likely; TASTY’s been used
Went with HASTE on 2 to test for the -ASTE trap (and might’ve been the solution; didn’t go with TASTE since it’s been used) and to check for SH and TH combinations. Worked out well. 
Fixed.
Wordle 968 3/6
RAISE
HASTY
PASTA
Wordle 968 4/6
HEART
TALLY
SATIN
PASTA
Wordle 968 5/6
STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
HAWKS
PASTA
Wordle 968 5/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,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 G} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \\ \end{aligned}
Giddy-up!
Wordle 968 2/6
SLATE
PASTA
Wordle 968 4/6* 2/12/2024
NEVER → Well. After that, I was looking for a word with a lot of comcons and A & O for vowels. I was plugging in lots of combinations when suddenly I hit on
LOAST → which I have no idea what it is, but at least it got me three letters. They looked like they went together so I moved them over one space, tacked on a consonant and a likely looking-vowel, and went with
PASTY → which I had noticed would go equally well with PASTA or TASTY, so the solution was easy
PASTA
Scoredle had 108 words remaining after the second guess, but most of them were regular plurals, so my guess wasn’t quite as lucky as that statistic would make it seem.