Stupid, stupid, stupid. Should have been a three.
Wordle 972 4/6
CRANE
BLAST
TOAST - head smack
STASH
Wordle 972 X/6* 2/16/2024
ASCOT → OK, not a bad start. I see one good word right off the bad, so
TASER → Would have been nice to pick up another letter. Shuffle 'em around and try again
STAND → Yeah, I’m gonna have to call this one a trap… OK, what have I got? STAPH and STAMP both use P, I should probably knock it out
STAMP → Nada. STALL and STALK, ditto, so
STALL → One guess left. STAGY is still around, as is…
STAFF
A streak of 98 comes to an end. Where’s Admiral Ackbar when you need him? Ironically, if I had seen the answer while looking for the fourth guess, I would have guessed the word that could have covered all three options I was thinking of, and finished in 5; what’s more I thought of STACHE at one point, but of course, six letters. I should have slept on it when the trap appeared. Frankly, I had been lucky for a while now; guess it was time for my luck to run out.
Wordle 972 2/6*
LEAST
STASH
I’ll be damned. I’ve never had three 2s in a row! I really like LEAST as a starter word.
Wordle 972 5/6
OLIVE
RANTS
STAMP
STACK
STASH
Had a short run of threes; now I’m back in Bogeytown.
I got excited when that STA turned owner at three. Then I looked… and looked… and looked… and saw STAFF and STACK and nothing else. I went to the used words list and found STAFF was burned already, so I sat back to take my par and - What the Hell??? I totally didn’t see that.
@SunUp, sorry about your streak.
@Rebo, nice run! Keep it up!
Wordle 972 4/6*
TROPE
LATCH
SWATH
STASH
Relieved to get it in 4, especially after seeing the stats: 14% didn’t guess it today, which unfortunately means a lot of broken streaks.
I hope to break my streak of 4s soon. Not today, though!
Wordle 972 4/6*
IRATE
STAMP
STALK
STASH
Saturday, February 17th
Wordle 973 2/6
PLANT
PSALM
I suspect this would’ve been trickier with a starting word other than plant.
Wordle 972 3/6
SLATE
STARK
STASH
Got super lucky with this one! I was seeing 6 words, 3 of which seemed the most likely…so out of those 3, I just eenie meenie miney moed it.
@Rebo Congrats on your three-day streak of 2’s! That’s awesome. 
Wordle 973 3/6
RATIO
SHALE
PSALM
Wordle 973 4/6
STERN
CLOUD
GIMPY
PSALM
Wordle 973 3/6*
ALONE
STALK
PSALM
Wordle 973 3/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,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 C} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 973 2/6
51
SLANT
PSALM → Could’ve also been LEASE; LEASH had been used.
Worked out pretty well with slant, too!
In your case, it could’ve also been PEARL.
Yeah, looking over the scores, today’s answer is easier than I expected.
Also, very glad I didn’t see pearl. I started by focusing on p_al_, which pretty quickly led to psalm. I never even looked at p_a_l.
[spoiler]Wordle 973 3/6
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CLONE
TRILL
PSALM
Wordle 973 3/6
RAISE
SCALP
PSALM
Wordle 973 3/6*
Upset
Clasp
Psalm
What an idiot. This should have been a two.
Wordle 973 4/6
SLATE - as it turned out, this only left one choice, but no-o-o-o-o
ATLAS
LEASH
PSALM
Wordle 973 3/6* 2/17/2024
STASH → OK, not bad. If the S doesn’t go at the end, there’s pretty much just one place left for it… but then what goes first? ?SA??, ASADA? Let me try something with an E…
USAGE → ASADA would still work… bu there’s one possible with a consonant, and it lets me try an L, so
PSALM
So a bit lucky there at the end, even though I had seen another alternative first (along with one with an N instead, which I might have bitten on if I had seen it.) After yesterday’s debacle, I’ll take it.
Wordle 973 3/6*
LEAST
SLANG
PSALM
There goes the streak, but a 3 is ok!