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December 22, EXCEL, 5/6
DECIDED TO BREAK the habit of mostly starting with consonant pairs, opening the day with BACON. The C was green, so to fill in around it I went with more vowels, in DICEY. The E joined the C in green; the only other vowel left to try on the other side of the C would be U. Unless it were another E. I couldn't think of a -UCE- word but I could think of FECES, and obviously I wasn't going to stop thinking of FECES till I played it. Would Wordle even allow FECES as an answer? That was Wordle's problem, not mine. FECES! The additional E was yellow. All the way to the front of the word with it, for EMCEE. Good word, right position, wrong letters. E blank C E blank. Time for a rarity: EXCEL. The little boxes all filled in with green. Not my most outstanding game.
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