First , I don't know why people with a decent to average brain need any hints whatsoever in their quest to get a certain wordle. If you wanted you could get every wordle on line #1 ! I have already posted that I do wordle the "hard" way unless there are at least 3 options left after line #4. Having said that I did have to put EPICS in line #4 which was unlikely to be correct since wordle never does plurals ending in S. But EDIFY had me stumped and I had to move it along further on line #5 by putting in emergency DUMBO. The D gave me EDIFY. But four wordles later my streak came to a shuddering halt with TAFFY. I am not American and had never heard of the word apart from slang (UK)꧋ for a Welshman. I got the TA and Y quick enough but put TALKY , TABBY , and TAMMY , using up lifeline #5 and having to choose between TAGGY ,TAFFY and TADDY for the last line. I put in TADDY thinking it might be shorthand for Tadpole but wasn't accepted. So I tried TAGGY thinking it would either be right or a non-word like TADDY. But it wrong and a legit word. My ninth streak thus ended on 275 with an average of 3.5

I took 3 hours and 10 minutes to keep my wordle streak today! I still had no consonants after line 4 and co⛦uld not 🤡find a word ( or The word ) for line 5. So I did something that is anathema to me , and put in a word , DUMBO in this case , just to rule in or out letters. I got one consonant and that narrowed it down enough for me to finally see the word. It feels like a defeat but I prefer that to losing my streak.

I don't do ' cheats '. I follow the 'hard' method unless I get to line 5 and to preserve my streak I will enter a word bearing 3 or more possible single letters. I never put in just any word if I am completely flummoxed, which is why last night's ( I do it on the stroke of midnight) word took me an hour and fifty minutes! But I got there thanks to MORNE and a lot of impossible answers ( thank God you don't get pꦺenalised for impossible words! ) TIP OF THE DAY 😃 Record every word on paper and use it for future reference. We wordlers know that a word is never used twice