June 30, HUTCH, 5/6
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DECIDED TO START by prioritizing consonants over vowels, with CLEFT. The C and the T went yellow, ruling out anything ending in -CT. But the C was probably combined with some other consonant, since it wasn't opening the word. How about its best friend, K? THICK went green on the C, and yellow on the T and H. That would fit with ending on -CH. And a frame of _ T _ C H seemed weird. End on -TCH, then. WATCH? Gray on WA, green on TCH. Ecch, another boring elimination game. BOTCH? No luck with the BO-. What did that leave? Something-UTCH. PUTSCH has an S and is six letters long; MUCH has no T and is only four. Was DUTCH a legal Wordle word? Or—just reuse the H, for HUTCH. There. Latch this one in its cage and forget about it.
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