I agree.
Wordle 718 4/6
CRANE
SHIFT - went with a consonant-heavy word
EARTH - &$#@!
HATER
Wordle 718 6/6
PLANT
RATES
WATER
TATER
HEEDS
HATER
It’s been quite a while since I’ve had to break hard mode rules, but this one had way too many potential answers. None of them felt like viable answers to me, which meant they all became viable.
Still, with water, tater and later eliminated and cater having previously been an answer, the top choices I had remaining were dater, eater and hater. But there were still others out there so I couldn’t just check two and assume if nothing hit the third was the answer. Couldn’t find a word that started with E and included DH, so I had to guess a double E word to verify eater.
Well, I see I’m in good company today. The answer was a perfect word for today.
Wordle 718 5/6*
IRATE
WATER
LATER
EATER
HATER
Nasty stupid trap word.
Wordle 718 5/6* 6/7/2023
SCOUT → Makes the second guess easy.
TRAIN → Good pickups but I really need some green here
RATED → A trap is forming. At least T R C and D are out
LATER → So, an H?
HATER
Sheer luck I didn’t see E or W in the trap or I would have missed it completely.
Wordle 718 6/6
RATIO
LATER
WATER
EATER
THUMP
HATER
Stupid trap word 
Should have done a sleuth word out the gate, but I wanted to see if I could get it. I wasn’t sure if Mater, Pater, or Tater would be used, but I had those words along with Hater, and so I came up with Thump to check which one. Hater it is. Ugh.
Wordle 718 4/6*
LEAST
TREAD
WATER
HATER
Glad to see that I’m not the only one who thinks HATER is a bogus word
THU JUN 8
Wordle 719 4/6*
ALONE
SHIRT
RUMPY
CRUMB
…rumpy?
Wordle 719 5/6
RATIO
SURLY
CHURN
CRUDE
CRUMB
I almost put CRUMP because I couldn’t see anything else. Then I saw CRUMB and judged it far more likely.
Wordle 719 2/6*
GRIME
CRUMB
Not had a 2 in ages 
Wordle 718 4/6*
I came here to see how others did on 718, and accidentally spoiled 719 for myself. Darn.
Wordle 718 4/6*
PRIDE
REALM
SHEAR
HATER
I beat Wordlebot. That’s something.
Both HATE and HATER are nouns. And they mean different things. I don’t get the whole bogus word thing. There aren’t that many useable 5-letter words. It’s not like it’s obscure, and I’m pretty sure there have been others of the same type. Fair game, I think.
Wordle 719 5/6* 6/8/2023
HATER → Thought for a second it was a strikeout. Better try a couple more vowels
LORIS → Nothing doing. Last two vowels, and an N (or two)
RUNNY → It’s U. Try it in the middle, and not many places left for R to go
FRUMP → Whew. Gotta be
CRUMB
A 5 by virtue of the process of elimination.
Wordle 719 3/6
1,713
8
SLANT
CHORE
CRUMB
The only other word I could come up with was CRIMP, and that had already been used.
Wordle 719 3/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,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 O} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt U} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 719 4/6
HEART
BROIL
FRUMP (damn forgot about the B)
CRUMB
Wordle 719 4/6*
OUGHT
EQUIP
SAUCY
CRUMB
The last word took a long minute! I couldn’t think of any words with just one U and my remaining consonants.
Wordle 719 3/6
PLANT
SCORE
CRUMB
Another super quick one. My natural instinct was to move CR to the front, and then given that start, U seemed more likely than I. Plus, of course, trust the B!
For me personally, I resisted hater because it feels too slangy for me. Not the same thing but of a kind with finna. (Which google voice just recognized. That makes me sad.)
The difference, of course, is that the former is an actual word while the latter is pure slang. That’s why I checked for it even though I initially resisted it.
Wordle 719 4/6
RAISE
FLOUR
CHURN
CRUMB
Oops! Boy I feel silly.
But I still hold the opinion that certain categories of words that are made up by adding a letter or two are cheap shots.
e.g. PINEY describes something that has a PINE smell. Ugh. (I guess that’s probably the tenth post I have made about that one–perhaps it’s time I let it go).
Today’s was nice, even if it was a four…
Wordle 719 4/6*
A very common word, CRUMB, with an unusual spelling that isn’t derived from some other word–two thumbs up in my book! It’s just my opinion of course, but these are the words that make Wordle fun.