Wordle 1,139 4/6*
PLATE
FRAIL
SLASH - Dumb move, 1st guess eliminated L in the 2nd position
CHALK
Wordle 1,140 6/6
RATIO
SHALE
PLANE
BLADE
FLAME
FLAKE
Bad trap. Didn’t treat it seriously enough.
Wordle 1,140 3/6
PLANT
FECKS
FLAKE
Had to bail on hard mode immediately. After listing out the words I could see, I wanted to check f, c, k, s. I did still have fucks to give so I tried the other vowels first to see if I could keep it clean. Turns out fecks is a word.
Wordle 1140 3/6
65
1
SLANT
DRECK
FLAKE
With the green LA in my starting word, this was a replay of Wordle 1116 for me. 1116’s solution, BLARE, took one possibility out of play, and it made enough of a difference for me to change my sleuth word on 2 from BRIDE to DRECK. It did the job.
Wordle 1,140 3/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt K} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}
Lucky second guess.
Wordle 1,140 4/6
HEART
PLACE
BLADE
FLAME
Thanks Rebo. Anyway I typed it right where it counts, in the game.
Wordle 1,140 4/6
SLATE
PLACE - Ironically, I immediately thought of “flake”, but went with this stupid choice
FLAME
FLAKE
Wordle 1,140 6/6
READY
SHALE
BLAZE
ELATE
KNAVE
FLAKE
I got a “Phew!” I still maintain that my approach is systematic, and the optimal one for me.
Wordle 1,140 3/6* 8/2/2024
CHALK → Hmm. Is a two possible? Getting that K make it… possible. SKA… but unless it’s SKALD, goes nowhere. KEA… same. KNA…, AKA. I started putting the L at the front and saw
LEAKY → Which meant ?LAKE, which meant
FLAKE
SLAKE was also possible, and woujld have meant a four after that great start. Scoredle sees it, and goes for the answer with its second guess - great deduction, its worst case on that answer with that start was a three.
Wordle 1,140 4/6
PATIO
SNARL
BLAME
FLAKE
By the time I fell into the trap, only three plausible words remained. Logic dictated that GLADE or GLAZE would guarantee at worst a five. But today I decided to look at the used words list and found that GLAZE was off the table, allowing me a coin-toss shot at the word I liked better, which was FLAKE.
Wordle 1,140 3/6
SLATE
PRIDE
FLAKE
I used PRIDE as a sleuth to check some of the letters in the available trap words, and it helped but still left 3 choices…got lucky choosing correctly!
Ah, Dumpy’s long lost cousin Dreck! 
That was a good one for what you were facing. This game can be rather systematic, so part of the fun is coming up with a good sleuth word…I’m not always able to do so, but it’s fun trying.
Wordle 1,140 5/6*
ALONE
SLATE
BLADE
FLAME
FLAKE
Wordle 1,140 5/6*
PLATE
BLADE
GLARE
SLAKE
FLAKE
Caught in a trap!
[spoiler]Wordle 1,141 3/6
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YEARN
BLADE
SCALE
Wordle 1,141 3/6
PLANT
LEARS
SCALE
I saw shale first but decided to go rogue because I felt like scale would be the answer.
Wordle 1,141 3/6
RATIO
SHALE
SCALE
Wordle 1,141 4/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,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[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \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 E} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 1141 2/6
29
SLANT
SCALE
SCALD, SHALL, SHAWL, and SMALL had already been used. I went with SCALE on 2 because it stood at the intersection of two mini-traps: S(C/H/W)ALE and SCAL(E/P/Y); I figured I’d find which mini-trap I was in, and either win or lose a coin toss on 3. But instead it was the solution.