S could not be in the fourth spot.
Wordle 1,038 3/6
HEART
BREAD
LASER
Wordle 1,038 2/6
RAISE
LASER
Ah, my mistake; thanks.
Wordle 1038 2/6
186
SLANT
LASER
There were a few other possibilities (AISLE, EASEL, BASIL, FALSE, LAPIS, LASSO, PALSY; BALSA, LAPSE, and USUAL had already been used); I went with LASER because not only did it seem like an awfully good guess, but it would guarantee a 3 at worst.
Looks like most had an easy time of it today.
Wordle 1,038 3/6
CRANE
SMEAR
LASER
Wordle 1,038 3/6* 4/22/2024
JOLLY → At least I know there’s only one L. So now I can try that great starting word everyone else (including Scoredle) uses for the second guess
SLATE → And that was… very effective. If we scramble up the first three, tack on that E, and finish with a comcon, we get a fricken
LASER
EASEL was the main alternative on three. Scoredle, naturally, starts off with four yellows yet takes three guesses to try an R as the fifth letter. What the heck, Scoredle? But, if you start it from JOLLY, Scoredle falls into a trap and loses. Oof.
Wordle 1,038 2/6*
LEAST
LASER
Wow, congrats to all the 2s! Of whom I am not one. 
Wordle 1,038 3/6*
IRATE
SPEAR
LASER
Wordle 1,038 3/6*
PLATE
LAGER
LASER
Maybe if I were a bigger beer fan, I would understand seeing LAGER before LASER. As it is, what was I thinking?
[spoiler]Wordle 1,039 6/6
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Stoopid.
Wordle 1,039 3/6
RATIO
ROUSE
ROVER
Wordle 1,039 6/6
PLANT
SCORE
ORDER
BOXER
WHAMO
ROVER
After 2 I saw boxer first but kept looking until I saw order. Meaning I immediately guessed boxer after order wasn’t the answer. At that point I realized I was deep in a trap. I found hover/mover/rover/rower/mower, and then was forced to cheat myself with a sleuth word.
I also saw roger, but I’m not sure if that’s in the answer list. It’s a radio call sign, so it might be. If it had been roger I would have lost.
Wordle 1,038 2/6
SLATE
LASER
Joining the five others who also got a 2 today. 
Could have also been Easel, but I picked the right one! 
Eh, might as well get it over with.
Wordle 1,039 X/6* 4/23/2024
LASER → Hey, good start. Should try something with an O, and I can throw in a couple more comcons with
TONER → which also follows well after LASER, naturally. Ick, looks like a trap, and I’m seeing too many possibilities. Probably should sleep on it now, but I’ll try to bull through it. Hey, here’s a good one to try!
DOPER → So much for my good luck charm. Next?
BOWER → Not that either. Two guesses and two letters left
MOVER → A lifeline! Now, C or H? Fifty-fifty shot… try
HOVER
It wasn’t a fifty-fifty shot - it was one in three. Oddly enough, I had thought briefly of the PARER trap from a while back, but didn’t see fit to try a repeat letter - to my sorrow. My sole redemption is that Scoredle, too, loses when it starts with LASER on today’s puzzle. Tough one, but tomorrow is another day.
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt O} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \\ \end{aligned}
Not just me then !
After the third guess you actually had 4/5 letters. You were probably down to only two options at that point.
BOXER didn’t have the second R from ORDER. You could have eliminated everything but ROWER, ROVER and possibly ROGER or BORER.
Meanwhile, I was luckier than I thought to avoid the trap. Having the first letter helped a lot.
Doh! I didn’t notice that at all.
Wordle 1039 5/6
1,713
77
23
2
SLANT
CHORE
BOWER
MOVER
ROVER
Doggedly worked this through to a solution. Happy to get a 5.
Traps every which way with this one! I’d thought of trying ERROR as my third guess, but it had been used. If I’d gone with it anyway, I’d have been looking at a RO_ER trap, with ROPER, ROVER, and ROWER. No way out of the traps, ROGER that. 
Wordle 1,039 6/6
doggone that was a tough nut
HEART
BONER
FOYER
JOKER
LOSER
ROVER