This post embiggens my spirit

My 78 day streak ended today, I had all the letters but the first on my last three guesses. I had a 50-50 shot on the last one...and I chose poorly. Glad to know I wasn't alone.

But, I'm kind of glad the streak ended. Feeling an obligation to this stupid game every day was getting tiresome, but I would have hated to break the streak by just not doing it one day. It is better to go down as a loser.

That's where hardcore screws you (spoiler)

Lover
Mover
Cover
Hover
Rover

I have run into this exact same problem before and at that point if you stick to the rules of hardcore it's not smarts but luck that gets you the W. Sorry.

I was lucky enough to get the intial R quickly

so I didn't run into that problem. But it is very annoying when you guess four letters and realize that there are a multiplicity of choices for the fifth which lead to actual words.

Agreed - folks who don't play "difficult" mode can't relate

I guess that is life... That said there probably is a "game" here in that we should probably guess the words with repeating letters before exhausting common words. I think something similar is what did my streak in months ago.

I randomly guessed (spoiler)

river on my 3rd guess, so rover was an easy 4th

I'm in a contest with co-workers...

...so it'd be tougher for me to walk away from it.