PLUNK → Strikeout. Time for one of my favorite second guesses
ROAST → Wow that’s… not much. Need to try H and E and I, and find a place for R
HIRED → That’s something, and I’m running out of consonants. Can’t think of much left with an ??IRE ending, so better try ?RI?E, so
CRIME
Scoredle reminded me that GRIME and BRIBE were also in play.
Wordle 725 4/6
RATIO
HIKER
PRICE
CRIME
I had it narrowed down to Bride, Crime, and Price…had to check the C, and just chose wrong, darn it. Fine with a 4 though, but those 3’s sure seem to be elusive these days.
As an aside, I guess this is “negative connotation words” month (Beast, Hater, Wrong, Crime). I wonder what will come next? 
It depends. Sometimes I just like to see if I can nail it without the help of a sleuth word (and hope I get lucky), but I prefer to try and avoid getting worse than a 4 if possible. So if I can come up with a good enough one, I’ll go for it at guess #3, but sometimes I don’t find out until 4 or 5 that I even need one.
I also sometimes ignore what letters hit in my start word and go with 5 new letters for my second guess, but that isn’t what I consider a sleuth word…I’m just checking for more commons and vowels.
Wordle 725 3/6*
CLOSE
CRANE
CRIME
I go to Wordle for an escape but instead get reminded of my current worry: my daughter wants to move to a NYC apartment in a high crime neighborhood
Anyway, pleased with a 3
THURSDAY, JUNE 15th
Wordle 726 4/6*
ALONE
STARE
BADGE
MAYBE
Wordle 726 4/6
RATIO
LANCE
BADGE
MAYBE
That took a minute to see the answer.
I agree. Inflation sucks.
Wordle 726 4/6*
PLAID
MASON
MAUVE
MAYBE
Wordle 726 4/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[yellow,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[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt J} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt Y} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \\ \end{aligned}
JAMBE ?! dunno why i went with that !
Wordle 726 3/6
1,191
50
SLANT
CHORE
MAYBE
Liked the solution better than WAIVE, ABIDE, and the assorted other possibilities.
Yep! I went grocery shopping yesterday and it sure felt as if I’d been robbed.
Wordle 726 3/6
RAISE
TABLE
MAYBE
Wordle 726 5/6
HEART
PLEAD
MAVEN
MASSE
MAYBE
An ugly one.
Wordle 726 5/6
CRANE
SPOIL
ADAGE
BATHE
MAYBE
Wordle 726 4/6*
ADIEU
STEAK
PLANE
MAYBE
Wordle 726 5/6
PIOUS
LATER
DANCE
GAFFE
MAYBE
I felt really good about GAFFE. I looked and looked and looked for a pair of consonants that could fit between the A and E. When I hit on the double F, I was sure that had to be it.
And it took even longer after that to finally stick the Y and B together. I just had a blind spot for this one.
Wordle 726 5/6
PLANT
RACES
GAFFE
WAIVE
MAYBE
I think the previous answers list cost me a guess here. My first instinct at 3 was badge, but that’s already been an answer and guess 3 is when I guess for the win, so no used answers allowed. If I had guessed badge, that would have given me the B to make maybe obvious for a 4.
Yeah, same deal if VAGUE hadn’t already been a solution, would have identified which of gaffe, gauge, maybe, and waive it was.
I did ok today. I’ll take the par.
Wordle 726 4/6*
IRATE
SAUCE
FABLE
MAYBE
WordleBot was predictably petty. It gave me a 52 for luck and awarded itself only 38. But we solved the puzzle in the same number of steps! It also said the word GABLE would have been “more effective” than FABLE. MAYBE, if the only alternative to the answer (there were only 2 words available) contained a ‘G’.
Does WordleBot take past solutions into account? Because its ‘more effective’ third guess eliminates a past solution that your third guess doesn’t.
Also, Scoredle shows the ‘more effective’ guess eliminating a word from the list of 14,855 legit guesses (GAMBE) that is almost certainly not on the list of solutions. I would hope that WordleBot has the brains to not count that.
WordleBot does not take past solutions into account. It offers them as legitimate solutions to the puzzle – even though we know that, until we find a recycled solution, it doesn’t apply. (I kind of dread that day.)
I’m pretty sure the word you’re referring to is BADGE – which I actually remembered was a past solution, so I avoided it. But I’ll bet you’re right.