storrsroars
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Opened with no 'e' due to yesterday's double e, at my own peril.
I do things like that often. I accuse the puzzle makers of keeping tabs on our starter words and trying to come up with letters that aren’t typically used.
i like starting out with a Q.Was struggling a bit with the S in the middle of the word.
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I almost never do (I change every day) but it felt like it was due. Evidently not yeti like starting out with a Q.

I had to try Dipso today. Sometimes, the available consonants result in unique solutions. Dipso came to my mind before Disco .SICKO is a somewhat odd 2nd word choice for me. I'm not prone to making early guesses ending in a vowel, and I didn't have a gut feeling that today's solve would be one of those. And it doesn't have my usual favorite consonants. But it worked out today:
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Funny thing about that... on today's xordle, I became fixated that the L went with the A and the KV with the E, and I don't know why. I lost, but the answers were so damned obvious. I think my brain is fried from the heat & humidity.< .3% chance