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Date: May 18, 2023

Outcome: win

Hard Mode: true

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🟨🟨⬛️🟨⬛️
🟩🟨🟩⬛️⬛️
🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩
🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩
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Share: ↘️ Standard | ↘️ Enhanced | ↘️ Spoilers

Guesses: 6 (⛔️ Spoilers❗️)

#	Word	Usage	Before	After	Diff
1	plank	2 / 4	⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️ 10	⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ 9	-1
2	noise	2 / 4	⬛️⬛️⬛️🟨⬛️ 9	🟨🟨⬛️🟨⬛️ 7	-2
3	snoop	1 / 1 ✅	🟨🟨⬛️🟨⬛️ 7	🟩🟨🟩⬛️⬛️ 5	-2
4	sworn	1 / 1 ✅	🟩🟨🟩⬛️⬛️ 5	🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩 2	-3
5	scorn	2 / 2	🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩 2	🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩 2	0
6	shorn ✨	1 / 2 ✅	🟩⬛️🟩🟩🟩 2	🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0	-2

Puzzle: 698

Shift: yowax

Puzzle Score: 25

Category	Count	Score	Notes
Outcome	win	0	No penalty for a loss
Guesses	6	N/A	Guess count doesn't factor directly into the score
Correct	15	0	15 * 0 pts
Present	5	5	5 * 1 pts
Absent	10	20	10 * 2 pts

Golf. Low scores are better.

I had the scent but it was a slog again.

Contest: May 2023

Prev Puzzle: 697: 2023-05-17

Next Puzzle: 699: 2023-05-19

Date	Puzzle	Turns	Score
May 18, 2022	333	2*	7

Published: 2023-05-18 05:58 -0700

Committed: 2024-02-13 02:54 +0000