Is my absolute Wordle fail the worst you've ever seen?

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Before we go any further, what follows are massive spoilers for today's Wordle answer. Do not read if you've not completed puzzle #265 from March 10.

Dear reader, today is a bad day in my career as a word puzzler. Not because I couldn't figure out the Wordle combinations that I needed to. Not because I simply ran out of options to try.

No, it's just a huge, frustrating mess that I think (well, I hope, in order to make myself feel better) will catch out a lot of people.

Let me tell you a story about how I failed at Wordle today.

I was hard at work, feeding a rabbit and eating a piece of toast before bed. Big stuff, I know you'll agree.

Then I realized that it had passed midnight, and there was a new Wordle to try. Excitedly, and possibly the reason I chose this first word, I went for DANCE. No, it's not one of the top Wordle starting words. Whatever, I'm a renegade.

Far from a total disaster, and some excellent clues in there. The chances are this word ends in a CH, one of the most popular letter combinations.

So that means it's likely not a vowel in middle, as AO and AE aren't that well-used, and AU and AI don't have any obvious starting consonants.

So it's _A_CH. I run through the middle letters. T! That has to be it!

Oh man, not done it in two. No worries, can't be that many answers left that it could be, right? And so many letters answered… nobody could fail from here, right?

Right?

OK, that's pretty unlucky, think we can all agree here. But I know how to Wordle… yes, I'm mostly a 'done in four' kind of guy, but I've got a good vocabulary and I'm getting better with practice. I rush on as usual, knowing that the next word has to be right by the process of elimination:

What is happening. I've only got two attempts left, surely I