That fourth guess felt like a little bit of a risk but luck was a lady and favored me with a win. Of course, I also had a cat in my lap on Caturday so that helped. Wordle 1,932 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 ⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩

This one definitely made me think. But I would rather spend my time trying to think of a difficult word that fits than guessing which of five possible words that fit I should guess next with only three

I thought of The Word for my third guess but wasn’t brave enough to try it until my fourth guess. 😅 Wordle 1,930 4/6* 🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟩⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Streak - 28

I was so sure I had it in two and then the last letter betrayed me! But, alas, I will never complain about a three-guesser. A great dopamine hit with my mid-morning coffee. ☕️ Wordle 1,929 3/6* ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨

I feel like I should have gotten this one sooner but I still smiled when it . . . swam into view. I’ve had several long travel days (and still going) so it’s good to maintain my Wordle routine at least.

Barely had time to get this one in before my flight. Luckily I got lucky and guessed it in three! Wordle 1,927 3/6* 🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩🟩⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Streak - 25

Big day today attending the last British Clarinet Ensemble concert of the year featuring @alessandrawhite and then dinner with @steevec afterward who was kind enough to drop in and join the festivities

Today‘s puzzle was one I had to step away from for a bit and come back with fresh eyes. But once I did it revealed itself right away. 😅 Wordle 1,925 5/6* ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ ⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Streak

This was a proper Wordle word. Unusual but not so much that I had to hope it was a word and look it up afterwards (which is how I’ve learned about various species of flora). And yes, it was a five-guesser

Image created by @bitterirony using ChatGPT One of the games @alessandrawhite and I like to play when people are talking about Hive going up or down against the US dollar is: “Which Currencies Are Worse?”.

I considered the correct word as a guess fairly early on after seeing the results of my second guess but it felt like a risk. I thought surely I could come up with a more strategic word that would increase

Photograph by @bitterirony This line from “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T.S. Eliot is, according to my AI companion Claude, about the narrator feeling his life has been about trivial things instead

Another five-guesser! 😅 I wasn‘t too worried because I honestly couldn‘t think of any other word that would fit but still, the prospect of staring down the barrel of a sixth guess made me sit up a little

Whew! Going to a fifth guess will wake you up. I could tell my mind was racing to see if I could think of more words that would fit the pattern than I had guesses remaining. Luckily, I didn’t have to finish

Once again I felt that familiar pang of anxiety as my old nemesis, the one-missing-letter pattern, came into view but I was able to get there on the next guess so crisis averted. 😅 Wordle 1,920 4/6* ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨

This one could have been scary. It was starting to set up with the kind of pattern that always breaks my streak: one letter left but with more possible words that would fit than guesses available. 🙀 But

One of the things I like to do when I’m stuck on a Wordle is set my phone down and close my eyes to see if I can think of a guess that will work given the known letters. I did that today and the answer

No better way to kick off the weekend than with a three-guesser! That third guess was a pure strategy play with zero expectation that it would be THE word but every now and then . . . Wordle 1,917 3/6*

As always with a four-guess or better, there was a bit of luck involved but as the gamblers say, “I’d rather be lucky than good.” 🃏 Wordle 1,916 4/6* 🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨 🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Streak - 14

This felt like the perfect Wordle. It required a little bit of strategy and a little bit of luck (or no strategy and a lot of luck!) and I really liked the word. Plus getting it in four ain’t bad. Wordle