Wordle 705 3/6*
LEAST
PALER
BAGEL
I don’t like to think about what you do with your breakfast after a wild drunken sleepover!! 
FRI MAY 26
Wordle 706 4/6*
ALONE
SHINE
SPINE
SWINE
Wordle 705 5/6* 5/25/2023
UTTER → One E found, another vowel and two common consonants ruled out. Not a bad start. Let’s try an A and three more common consonants…
LANES → Good one! But maybe the start of a trap…
CAMEL → Yeah, I’m feeling a little scared here, but there are only so many consonants that can go in that middle…
GAVEL → And it turns out one of them is a G. So, this morning for breakfast I had a…
BAGEL
Kind of a fun 5. Took a lot of guesses, but they went quick.
Wordle 705 4/6
SPINE
ROWDY
CLEAT
BAGEL
Forgot to put that yellow E in my 2nd word, but that meant I had an extra letter to get checked. After my 3rd word, I had 5-6 words I was seeing…got lucky with choosing correctly!
@mattgg Welcome to the thread! I play in a very similar way. A word like Bring that has the letters in your list of words, I like to call a “sleuth” word…and I play them if I have a long list of words to choose from and really need to narrow things down, or nail the word. I too like the word Slate for a start word…I play it more often in Quordle than this game, but it’s done me pretty well in both, for the most part.
Wordle 706 5/6
RATIO
SLIDE
SHINE
SPINE
SWINE
For guess #3, instead of eliminating letters to get it in 4 or 5, guaranteed, I went for it and almost blew it.
Wordle 706 6/6
SALET
ROUND
SCENE
SHINE
SPINE
SWINE
Just made it!
Welcome, @mattgg !
Wordle 706 2/6
42
SLANT
SWINE
Of the possible solutions I could think of after my starting word, I just went with the word that seemed to narrow down the possibilities the most, and got lucky. Shiny! 
Wordle 706 5/6*
\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[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 S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \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 S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \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 E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \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 E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \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 E} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 706 4/6*
CRANE
SPINE
SHINE
SWINE
Looks like I’m not the only one showing some SPINE by wanting to SHINE before throwing my pearls to the SWINE…
Wordle 706 4/6
HEART
SLICE
SPINE
SWINE
Wordle 706 4/6
RAISE
CLAMP
SNIDE
SWINE
Way too many words it could have been, had to ditch hard mode.
Wordle 706 3/6
PLANT
REINS
SWINE
Took a hot minute to come up with reins, which is a substitution because no rearranging of snore puts the N in fourth position. I consider I for O the least disruptive substitution and lucked out with the I. I then lucked out again having already eliminated spine, plus shine having already been an answer. The only thing left was swine.
Thanks for this, and you were indeed correct with the first part. After two 3s in a row, my 3s are now 187 to match my 4s. Woohoo! *snoopy dance*
Congrats! 
Wordle 706 4/6
OVINE
SHINE
SPINE
SWINE
Joining the SHINE-SPINE-SWINE crowd.
Yes, I probably could have guaranteed a three with a sleuth word, but the lure of a possible two was too great, and only a one-in-three chance I’d end up with four. Them’s the breaks.
Wordle 706 4/6
CRANE
PHONE - eliminated the ‘o’ in that position, next logical choice is ‘i’
TWINE - basically only two choices to make and this wasn’t it
SWINE
Happily, a 3. But definitely aided by checking already-used words. There are just getting to be so many of them.
Wordle 706 3/6*
IRATE
SPINE
SWINE
I knew you’d do it! Nicely done!
I have 51 more 4s than 3s, but I was wondering if there were some point after which things were more in balance. And sure enough, since PARER, I have 107 of each. OTOH, I still have 21 5s, 2 6s, and a loss (JOKER) in that span, versus only 14 2s. So even dropping my early days, there’s still that bit of imbalance. But I still think that ain’t half bad.
Wordle 706 5/6* 5/26/2023
BAGEL → OK start. Try it at the end with some common letters, including the O…
STORE → Good progress, I need to find another vowels. I over U, so…
SPIKE → Found it, but looks a little traplike. Nothing to do but keep going, and I haven’t checked N yet…
SHINE → Only consonant left that fits is a W…
SWINE
This one went remarkably fast for me, like each guess was the logical progression of the previous one. Though if I had gone for I as the next vowel in the second guess, I probably could have finished in four.