Got it in three. Scarf, shard, scuba, snark and sacks could also have fit the clues I had so far, so I got lucky. ^_^
I tried a tactic with Absurdle: eliminate difficult letters like J, X, Z and W. Five guesses in I has only S and A to work with and I tried 'spald', which wasn't the final word but it was a word. That isn't in my big Webster's. Online it's either a spelling of Spall that fell out of favor 250 years ago or another spelling for spaul, both words I am not familiar with, and apparently, neither is my spell-checker! I think the solution was Smack.
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Date: 2022-02-03 06:50 pm (UTC)From:I tried a tactic with Absurdle: eliminate difficult letters like J, X, Z and W. Five guesses in I has only S and A to work with and I tried 'spald', which wasn't the final word but it was a word. That isn't in my big Webster's. Online it's either a spelling of Spall that fell out of favor 250 years ago or another spelling for spaul, both words I am not familiar with, and apparently, neither is my spell-checker! I think the solution was Smack.