Yesterday was the first time I played, after reading about some monetization thing on HN related to wordle. For me, my first guess was ABIDE, and was able to get AB in the correct location, with e in there as well.
Thinking that e was the second last letter, I was convinced it was ABLED, since it was the only word I could think of with an e in that position, but I didn't realize that I already tried D in the first word.
Using guesses 3-4, I wasn't able to narrow it down further than AB_E_. But I was able to eliminate some characters, leaving only ~ Q, X, Z, Y, J, K, F. In my mind, I couldn't figure out what 5 letter word could be made using just these letters, so I systematically tried swapping all combinations (wordle doesn't accept fake words).
It was only after that that I realized I could repeat letters, so I tried until I figured out duplicating B would give abbey, which seemed probably enough to be a real word.
