That is not its standard starter in non-hard mode, which would get a green 2nd letter and the others all blanks.

Did the hard bot use the bot's favorite starter? If it did, that would leave 4 unused possibles out almost 40 eligible words. I don't know if the bot knows which words are solution-vs-acceptable before it tries them, which might enable it to reduce the list.

Thanks. Your own result looks crow-worthy from here. Recently I ran across an NYT link to an article that explains how the bot works. Unfortunately I didn't save it, but when I find it again I'll share.

Not sure why but this one seemed to take a long time.
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“Risky business”
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The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

What we already know about Jared Kushner is infinitely worse, from any possible angle, than anything we ever learned about Hunter Biden. And yet the media is completely ignoring it.

Open corruption is tolerated from one of the two parties. But only one.

Forgot to mention. 7AM EDT the non-hard avg was 3.7; the non-hard bot took 3.

The blanks and that lone yellow did the heavy lifting this morning, and luckily the rule of last resort still works more than it doesn't. Wordle 1,767 3/6

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Re-enchant your life by making the mundane exciting. You're not going to CVS, you are visiting the apothecary to buy potions. You are not running an errand, you are doing a side quest. You are not feeding the birds, you are making an alliance with the crow queen.

Good morning

Sounds like just about the whole of the Sandman Slim series, if you're paying attention.

I tend to anthropomorphize things, especially things wearing socks.

This had better end it for every single Republican!

March 23 — The Power Plant Pause:
$580 million in oil futures flooded the market in a sudden spike — with no public news to explain it — roughly 16 minutes before Trump announced a pause in strikes on Iranian power plants.

Well, you're the one who (somewhat violently, I hear 😜) de-socked it.

Well Done! I hope the hard mode avg doesn't catch a chill, going around sockless on this chilly marathon day.

Of COURSE he's insider trading. He's a crook, he's ALWAYS been a crook, he's using the presidency to make billions.

He ran to stay out of jail, to make money and to feel powerful, because that's what a narcissist like him gets off on. It was never about helping people.

“…Occam's kazoo: the principle that the most plausible explanation, so far as Mr. Trump is involved, is invariably the stupidest. To understand his motives in any given situation, pick the most aggressively simple-minded, crudely self-serving, as absurdly moronic rationale you can think of…”

I don't think I'll ever get over Clarence Thomas ruling on cases related to Jan 6 knowing that his wife was an active participant in the attempted coup.

Or ruling on cases related to government regulations and a wealth tax knowing he took gifts from billionaires.

It's a disgrace.

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Not enough. Impeach. Remove. Prosecute. What do you mean there are no laws?

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7AM EDT NYT average 4.7 non-hard bot took 5
After 2nd try the bot said I only had 4 possibles, which for a change was what I thought, too. The little voice and I agreed on which one the WG would want, but we took a deep breath and picked the solution instead. Wordle 1,766 3/6

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Because this makes sense, it will probably never happen, but just once, if they lifted the cap, it would make the system work as it was designed. Can you imagine how much life could change for people who rely solely on Social Security to get by?

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Goodness. I guess your time away was not for naught. 😉

Wordle report over in Donna's thread.
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“Small change”
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