Wordle 1,286 4/6 — 2024-12-26
STARE
DOILY
PUNCH
AFFIX
Wordle 1,286 5/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,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 V} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt L} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[yellow,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt W} \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 A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt F} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt X} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 1,286 4/6* Boxing Day 2024
SHARE → Not much there. Last three WoFcons plus an O give us
TALON → Even less. I or U, or a second A, in there? But I also need consonants. I’ll try a variant spelling and see if it works
AMUCK → Yep, but now I’m in even worse trouble. I stared at this for ten minutes and then SunWife came over. We both stared at it for five more minutes and then she went into the kitchen, and came out one minute later with
AFFIX
An assist for the par. And thanks to my better half’s better guess, I beat Scoredle (which gets a bogey for its trouble).
Wordle 1,286 4/6
CRANE
HOIST
VALID
AFFIX
Wordle 1,286 4/6
YEAST (A single unplaced A. AUDIO and MIAOU aren’t viable.)
QUOTA (No help. Going for an I and a couple of WoFcons.)
ALIGN (Placed the A and gained an I, which I’m choosing to believe is penultimate.)
AFFIX (Not bad.)
Wordle 1,286 5/6
HEART
APPLY
AMONG
ABIDE knowing the E wasn’t correct, just fishing for letters
AFFIX
Wordle 1,286 3/6*
LEAST
APHID
AFFIX
Wordle 1,286 4/6
OLIVE
TRAIN
MAGIC
AFFIX
A very tough word; I’m happy to come away with a par today. Took me a lot of staring though.
Wordle 1286 5/6
1,191
173
17
1
SLANT
CHORE
DUMPY
JAFFA
AFFIX
This one, at least for me, was damnably hard. After 3, well, just look at all those blanks! I don’t think I’ve ever gone that far knowing that little before. Not only that, but with the handful of possible letters I had left after 3, I couldn’t come up with a possible solution at all.
I knew the solution wasn’t Jaffa, it’s a proper noun. But I couldn’t think of anything else to try at 4, and it had taken me hours to come up with that! But at least it gave me a couple of consonants and enough info to limit the combinations I had to try to find a solution.
Wordle 1,286 4/6
PLANT
RACES
AVOID
AFFIX
Wow, affix is a word I haven’t thought of in a while. Back in my DDO days I remember a lot of discussion about weapon enchantments, which were always referred to generically as affixes since they can be either a prefix or suffix. (eg: Holy sword of Pure Good.)
It wasn’t until googling right now to make sure that is the real definition (“prefixes and suffixes”) that I was reminded of the verb form, to affix something to something else, which had me doing a figurative headslap. That verb form of the word is boringly common. (Still not as common as “avoid”, though!)
Wordle 1,287 5/6
Wordle 1,287 5/6
RATIO
FLAIR
BRAIN
DRAIN
GRAIN
Wordle 1,287 3/6
PLANT
SNARE
GRAIN
Wordle 1,287 4/6 — 2024-12-27
STARE
DOILY
CHAIR
GRAIN
Wordle 1,287 2/6
TRANS
GRAIN
Wordle 1,287 4/6*
\begin{aligned} &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt B} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt E} \bbox[lime,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 C} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt M} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt P} \\ &\bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt T} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt S} \bbox[silver,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt H} \\ &\bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt G} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt R} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt A} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt I} \bbox[lime,5px,border:1px solid black]{\texttt N} \\ \end{aligned}
Wordle 1287 2/6
31
SLANT
GRAIN
See my comment from #1282: there aren’t many words that result in this green-and-yellow combo with my starting word, and most of them have been used - even more so after this past week! I was down to GRAIN, KNACK, PRAWN, and possibly UNARM. And I wasn’t feeling like going against the GRAIN. 
Maybe next time it comes up, I’ll finally get the KNACK of this game. 
Regarding yesterday’s solution, I’ve generally encountered it as a highfalutin synonym of ‘attach,’ as in ‘please affix your resume to your application.’ Perfectly legit solution, just one that gave me fits. Its other definition, as a term that encompasses both prefixes and suffixes, was new to me, but it makes sense that there should be such a word.
(Spoilered in case it’s still yesterday somewhere out near the International Date Line.)
Wordle 1,287 2/6*
Ideal
Grain
Wordle 1,287 5/6
Grrrrrrrr.
CRANE
BRAIN
TRAIN
DRAIN
GRAIN
Wordle 1,287 4/6
HEART
BRAIN
DRAIN
GRAIN