Wordle Postgame Report, August 29
GAMES OF SKILL AND CHANCE DEP'T.
August 29, CHIEF, 4/6
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FOUR ROUNDS THAT felt like 100. The highly reasonable opening pick of SPORT came up blank. ALIVE got a green I and a yellow E. So many consonants gone, such uninformative vowels on the board. Time to start looking at -IE- configurations and remembering that almost nothing goes -EI-. Not SIEGE, not SIEVE. GNEISS would, but it's six letters. BEING? E still yellow, nothing new to add. Blank blank I E, with most the usual consonant combinations unavailable—nothing with S in it, P, R, T, L... Nothing but—oh. C and H. That's what remained for the leading position; this was it.
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