Wordle Postgame Report, November 1

GAMES OF SKILL AND CHANCE DEP'T.

Wordle Postgame Report, November 1
New porcupines at Griffith Park Zoo (African giant crested), 28 August 1951. 'Porky' is the bigger one (male); 'PINEY' female. (Photo by Los Angeles Examiner/USC Libraries/Corbis via Getty Images)

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November 1, PINEY, 3/6

BY SUNDAY, THE Halloween candy in the drugstore had been moved to the racks at the end and the "Seasonal" shelves already had Christmas candy on them. Now in November, I opened with CARGO and came up empty. Fully reloading with SPITE got a yellow P, yellow I, and yellow E. If the I couldn't be in the center, it would probably go toward the front, and the word would be two syllables. Did the E want to go with a D? Wordle may accept past tenses, but that doesn't mean I have to play them before the better words are gone. Adjective: PINEY. Unbroken green, the balsam smell of success.

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