Wordle Postgame Report, February 20, 2023

GAMES OF SKILL AND CHANCE DEP'T.

Wordle Postgame Report, February 20, 2023
Giving the Medicine - circa 1906 Navajo medicine men assist a man in a ritual SWEAT during a Yeibichai ceremony. (Photo: Edward S. Curtis/Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)

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February 20, 2023, SWEAT, 4/6

THE ROW WAS dry and empty where I played GULCH. Turning to vowels and common letters with RAISE got three yellows on A, S, and E. Put the E and the A together, put the S at the front, fill in the gaps efficiently: STEAK. The old letters were green and the T was yellow. Send the T to the end, plug in an W. No problem.

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