Wordle Postgame Report, November 15
GAMES OF SKILL AND CHANCE DEP'T.
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November 15, SNARL, 4/6
MAYBE I WAS looking at a graph of something, or thinking about a graph of something; somehow, CHART came up as the opener, and the AR turned green. Time for a basic guessing game: SPARK? The S was green, and the guesses got narrower. Surely it couldn't be SMARM, could it? It wasn't worth burning a turn on. I tried SWARM instead, but the two gray spaces stayed gray. There was no way this one could flow off the bottom, not with that S looking for a consonant partner in a dwindling field—but what if the A was looking for a vowel? No, nothing seemed worth pursuing that way, yet. If I blew it on the fourth guess, I'd have to systematically work through the options on round five, but for now I just played SNARL. The gray went green. No need to untangle the other possibilities.
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