Mumble grumble I followed your rules and this is what I got

Wordle 207 X/6*

⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩

(I might have used the correct word from two days ago rather than yesterday's)

I mean these rules are meant to make the game harder rather than easier

well sure, I was just mumble grumbling because I was so close!

i have to ask, what is wordle? i have seen it around on the internet before but never with enough context to understand

a word game!!

i feel like number 3 is just good wordle strategy in general

I think that using letters that are marked out can be useful when fishing for letters if you have a word that can check a lot of common letters or specific positions even if it uses ones you know can't be correct instead. But I guess if hard mode is enabled that becomes less useful.

I think the restriction of never using letters that have been ruled out makes it harder to think of new words but it does help me to not waste guesses. Same goes for if a letter is confirmed to be in a certain spot, don't guess any words that don't have that letter in that spot.

This usually means i spend like 40 minutes on one wordle puzzle tho

oh thank you! this looks fun