Gary A.

@dutchiris Yes on the puzzle, and yes on Wordle. I too never use the same starting word - my goal being to elicit a comment from "the bot" of "No one in our sample of 1,777,956 completed Wordles faced this scenario!" Otherwise it would become too formulaic for me.

@Deanosaur spectacular comment! at the same level as this spectacular puzzle

@Kelli I think you're right but I didn't realize it because I do the puzzle with my son. He knows the newish stuff and I the oldish - we complement each other. Without him I'd have run into the same difficulties as you did.