Wordle Postgame Report, February 7, 2023

GAMES OF SKILL AND CHANCE DEP'T.

Chiryu, The Horse Fair, in The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road (Tokaido Gojusan Tsugi-no Uchi), Ando Hiroshige, Japanese, 1797-1858, Hoeido firm, Woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi), ink with color, Groups of horses tethered in tall grass. Upper center, tree with crowd of horse dealers at its foot and some buildings. APPLE-green grass. Japan, 1833-34, figures, Print. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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February 7, 2023, APPLE, 4/6

IT TOOK SOME stretching out for starter words before I came up with RANGY. I tried centering the A in PLACE, but that wasn't where it went; still, the P, L, and A came up yellow and the E was green. The answer presented itself obviously: AMPLE. The answer was wrong. The M stayed gray. APPLE. Green and sour. 

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