Wordle 275 wasn’t very exciting. Just look at the title! I had to misuse Their instead There. That’s liable to make some word police types quite angry. Myself included. 

Adieu was pleasant enough giving me a yellow I and E.

I figured Field was a decent enough guess. Filled with fairly common letters. Not to mention that it was going to help me figure out where the I (yellow) and the E (green) went. 

So, was I dealing with a word that began with a C? Maybe. Though I couldn’t come up with anything that worked. After a minute or so of tryping, I figured out what it had to be. 

All went green on Their.

Wordle 274 began in a spartan with Adieu only giving me a green E. My second guess, Other, kept it that way. 

Well, heck. This isn’t a good place to be when one is trying to fix the gap between results of their three and four guesses. Which is something I’ve been trying to do. Three is for me! 

I almost made the boneheaded move of putting D at the end of the word. Even though I knew dang good and well it wasn’t there. I caught myself and, through tryping, came up with a new guess. Even though I wasn’t super happy with it. Resew didn’t feel on brand for Wordle. 

It wasn’t, but everything went green except the S. I stared at my options for far too long. Inventing new words. Questioning if someone at the times forgot how to spell Review. Then, I saw that gorgeous N. Which should have totally gave me the answer I needed. 

Renew.

I don’t know what it was about Wordle 273. Shortly after playing Adieu and getting a green A, I felt a calling of two letters lurking in the Wordle. Though I did not know what they were. 

Abbot added a green O to the mix. Which were the double B’s really where I should have started? Probably not, but it’s Wordle, so almost any guess is as good as the next. 

There’s been a lot of W love lately. For that reason alone I punched in Arrow and hit enter. Everything went green except the R’s. Making me reasonably certain that I knew what the answer was. 

Without a second thought I punched in LL and hit enter. Done.

Wordle 272 was my chance at stopping the new trend of five and six guesses. Which aren’t bad, but a little too close to Wordle X’ing for comfort. I’d really like my three guess results to surpass my four guesses. Which isn’t too far off.

Adieu let me know that A, E, and U were in the puzzle and that they were not in the proper locations. 

Haute came to mind fairly quickly. While it mostly seemed on brand, it also felt like a non-obvious choice. Therefore, probably not the answer. I couldn’t be bothered to find a better solution I wanted to know if I was barking up the right tree. 

I was.

All the letter, but H went green. The obvious choice was Saute. Which I can’t help but kick myself over as I typically prioritize the guessing of S over H. 

I now realize that I could have had my first two guess. 

Bummer.

Wordle 271 came on a day that I was busy. I started work immediately after waking up and didn’t play Wordle until later in the day. When I was listening to the news. My attention was split. I really wasn’t into it.

Adieu gave me a yellow I and E. So I tried Isles. Really? That was a terrible guess and didn’t try to find a the spot for E. 

Rifle was my next guess. The I remained yellow while the E went green. Though I used L again which I already knew wasn’t good. 

I was not doing well. So I typed in, Ollie, my dog’s name. At least the I went green, not that process of elimination hadn’t told me that already. I also got a yellow O!

Bowie counts as a word, eh? I was a bit surprised by this. Also, Wordle was in love with W last week and now, nothing.

I have to admit, I was panicking by this point and it was all my doing. I wasn’t paying attention. I wasn’t thinking. 

Thank goodness Movie worked out.

Wordle 269 made me reassess the amount of gloating I did over solving Wordle 268 in about a minute. In fact, even with slowing down and taking a bit more time. I still made a boneheaded move. 

Adieu gave me a yellow A and E. I went with Stare which greened those yellow letters while adding yellow S and T. Two guesses and I practically had this thing solved!

…Or did I?

Maybe it’s the time change. It’s certainly because I still wasn’t fully awake. I didn’t immediately see the solution. For the first time in days the concept of double letters lurking in the puzzle, didn’t even cross my mind. 

As I returned with a fresh cup of coffee I entered Slate. Which was the boneheaded move. I already knew that S didn’t belong at the beginning of this thing. Yet, I’d gone and done it. 

I felt like a fool. At least I knew that I only needed to guess the second letter. I was pretty sure that a Wordle beginning with TS was right out. An O didn’t seem right for the second letter. Nor didn’t any consonants. 

Then E hit me. As it should have all along. So simple. Why did I not suspect double letters. Please do not Tease me.

Wordle 267 began with a bit of trepidation on my part. After all, I’m still a bit shaken after my loss the on Wordle 265. I have every right to be. 

Adieu gave me a yellow U. As did Hours. However, I did get a green O which was good. After that, I did some tryping and came up with Bogus and Focus as potential next guesses. Since Wordle has been in a bit of a beige phase lately, I figured the Wordle wouldn’t be Bogus, but Focus instead and went with that.

I mean, all the tiles going green is great and all. However, I was a little let down that the solution wasn’t Bogus. Maybe I should go watch one of the Bill & Ted movies to make myself feel better. 

Wordle 266 was my first Wordle after Wordle X’ing on Wordle 265. I could have used the loss as a natural ending to playing Wordle. Close the book and the tab forever. Yet, I enjoy playing Wordle too much to let one little loss bring me down. 

I brushed the metaphorical dust from my shoulders and typed in Adieu. Which gave me a yellow A and a yellow D in return.

Then I typed in Salad because I really can’t get over the double letters streak I’m on. Even on Wordle 265 I did it, though I can’t recall the word. 

Not wanting to go down the same road I went the previous I slowed down just a touch. Did a bit of tryping. I gave Today a shot as it was a great way to figure out what other vowels were lurking. Not only did I find out, I was rewarded with all greens.  

Wordle 264 was kind of a cross roads for the ways the last few puzzles have gone. I solved it quickly, but needed that fourth guess. 

Stare my second choice and it turned my yellow A and E green while giving me a yellow S. 

My next guess was a surprise to me. I typed in Masse for the purpose of visualizing a word. Though I was in the room alone, I remember looking over my shoulder before I hit enter. Instead of having the boxes shake back and forth because Masse isn’t a real word, the tiles started flipping.

I immediately punched it into google. Apparently, I’m not a billiards guy. Which is something that I didn’t need Wordle to inform me. Also, apparently Wordle will take French words. Though Masse is a French word that has been adopted into English. 

I really need to get off the double letter train. Double letters do not happen nearly as often as I’m trying them these days. Lapse came to me quickly after and that was that.

Wordle 263 told me to shut up and take my time playing Wordle. For the first time in a bit Wordle took me more than a minute to complete. This was closer to about five to ten minutes!

Adieu gave me nothing. Storm  gave T, O, and M. All yellow. 

Influenced by Sweet from Wordle 262, I felt that there could be some double letters hanging out. For that reason I went with Motto. Which gave me M and O in a hue of green. Everything else was yellow and gray. At that point I knew there were not any double letters. Well, unless M was a double letter. Which I mouthed out a few times before accepting the situation and moving on.

After a moment of hopelessness, believing it was some word that I was too stupid to know, I figured out what it was. Month. Anticlimactic.

Wordle 256 had me mourning my choice to continue to play Wordle. Have to admit, my daily habit for more than the last month, sometimes feels like a chore. Especially when I don’t get any greens in my first two guesses. 

Struck was played after Adieu. Then I played Crumb. Perhaps that choice was slightly flippant, but I usually find my first three guesses are quite fast. No more than a few minutes. 

By the time I hit my fourth guess, I wasn’t in the mood for using a fight guess. I slowed way down and had a good think.

Wordle 256 was a nasty little bugger. Stark followed Adieu and I had more than half the letters, but no idea where they went. 

Perhaps I could have done better than Baths. Though know if the S belonged on the end and if there was an H before it seemed like a great question.

Then I tried Tasty. Even as I hit enter, I knew I was making some kind of mistake. It didn’t seem like a Wordle solution. Though it would definitely let me know where the T ultimately belonged. 

On my fifth guess, I solved this Nasty Wordle.

Wordle 254 resulted in another four guess having to be used. Four guesses happens to be my most common result. Followed by five and then three. Six is way back there, but so are one and two. Seriously though, what’s the fun in one? Nothing.

I’ve been getting reminded lately of how much luck is involved with Wordle. So many times, it’s down to a random choice from the user which word they choose to input next. 

Oh sure, you could lie to yourself and think you can guess the likelihood of Phone being used over Choke. Wordle uses common and somewhat uncommon words – I’m looking at you Tacit -. There’s really no way to go, other than guess. 

Wordle 249 I was particularly proud of, especially after seeing it trend on Twitter at the number of people that had X’ed out. If that is the proper terminology.

When I solved it in a matter of minutes – hard mode still engaged – I hadn’t thought much of it. It was over before it really started. I felt a little sad. Quick solves are a rush, but much of the fun is removed. 

The real fun comes from the challenge and running through dwindling chances. Someday I’m sure I will look back on this Trove of easy wins. 

Wordle 248 went too quickly. For all the complaining I’m seeing online and the conspiracy theories that The New York Times have upped the difficulty, I’m not seeing it. I mean Shake from Wordle 243 was a bit cheeky, but still solvable.

Thorn didn’t present an issue here.

Wordle 247 was put in the corner like its name wasn’t baby. I was still on vacation, had other things I wanted to do, and was tired of having Wordle rule a portion of my day. With that, I put it off until after we’d gotten home and settled back in. 

Briskly, before watching the new Hilda movie, I bang out this puzzle in a matter of minutes. Disabling hard mode, but keeping myself beholden to the rules of hard mode. 

In less than three minutes I’d discovered that it was Other, not Otter.