Wordle 724 4/6
ASIDE
COUNT
FLUNG
PLUNK
More of a sound effect than a word, but okay. I’ll be happy with a par here.
Wordle 724 4/6*
INERT
PLANS
PLANK
PLONK
PLUNK
OK. This is just a ridiculous word. 
My good luck continues to hold.
Wordle 724 3/6*
IRATE
SMOCK
PLUNK
An especially pleasing result, considering my first try was a total bust. But I learn! WordleBot advises that after my second try, only two words remained: FLUNK and PLUNK. Since I was only letter-testing, I wanted to know about the ‘P’ and never even considered an ‘F’. I laughed out loud when my third try turned out to be the answer.
Wordle 724 6/6* 6/13/2023
WRONG → That’s something. Try one new vowel
SLANT → Miss on the vowel, hit on the L. Seems somewhat trappish
BLIND → Feeling quite trappish now. Next letters
FLUNK → Two words left that I can see, both onomotopeias. Try alphabetical order
CLUNK → Nope. Last guess
PLUNK
Eighteen green squares and zero yellows.
Wordle 725 3/6*
HAUNT
SPICE
CRIME
Wordle 724 4/6
RATIO
UNCLE
FUNKS
PLUNK
Seeing the trap, I went with a sleuth word (FUNKS) to tell me which one it was (glad it accepted the word). I’ve no shame in doing that, obviously. 
I came so close to a two!
Wordle 724 3/6*
SNAKE
FLUNK
PLUNK
Wordle 725 3/6
RATIO
SINGE
CRIME
This should have been a two. I was all ready to go with CRIME as my second guess when I decided it was better to try more common letters and then I forgot the R anyway. I consider this one a major fail.
Wordle 725 3/6*
\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[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[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\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 I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 725 4/6
1,713
10
1
SLANT
CHORE
CREME
CRIME
Wordle 725 5/6*
ALONE
SHIRE
TRIPE
DRIVE
CRIME
Wordle 725 3/6
RAISE
PRICE
CRIME
Wordle 725 5/6
HEART
PLIER
REIGN
DRIVE
CRIME
Wordle 725 3/6*
STARE
PROVE
CRIME
Lucky!
Wordle 725 3/6
OUIJA - new opening word for a change and a big mistake
SPINE
CRIME - wordlebot agrees that this was spectacularly lucky
My usual opening word of “crane” would have given me three letters, all in the proper places.
Wordle 725 3/6
PLANT
SCORE
CRIME
I saw creme, but other than that there wasn’t a whole lot else it could be. At least not if assuming it started CR, which I did.
CRUDE and CURVE (I know, not a CR start) were also possibilities. But that was about it.
Wordle 725 4/6
ACUTE
VOICE
CHIME
CRIME
I knew it was C_I_E after two. I saw CRIME, CHIME, CHIDE, and the less-likely CLIME and CHILE.
Which gave me an interesting choice: CHIME gave me a shot at a three, but also left open the possibility of a five if I got unlucky; while a sleuth word like HEARD or WORLD would have guaranteed a four.
I went for the chance of a birdie and came up par anyway.
I tend to reserve sleuth words for when there’s a chance of a fail, which there wasn’t here. Do the rest of you (who don’t play in hard mode) have a prevailing philosophy in these situations?
I used to use them at 3 to try and ensure a 4. But for a while now I’ve been treating 3s and 4s as wins and losses, with 5s and 6s the equivalent of no contest. So nowadays I only pull them out at 5 if I’m in danger of losing.
Well, depending on who you believe (WordleBot or me), either super lucky or super sleuthy.
Wordle 725 2/6*
IRATE
CRIME
Hitting 3 letters that really could only go in one order for the second try (-RI-E) was lucky. I wrenched on that combination for a long while and came up with quite a list – more than half of which were eliminated as already having been used. My finalists were PRISE, BRIDE, PRICE, URINE and CRIME. I was pretty sure PRISE and URINE were not in contention. A background in the legal world caused me to favor CRIME as my second word. So “lucky,” I guess.