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aggiesal

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9. Booo, put it in hard mode, where you are forced to use the letters that you've already found ...

Wed Jul 15, 2026, 07:33 AM

17 hrs ago

In this case, you would be forced to use the letter 'a' in your subsequent word guesses, instead of using non 'a' words to eat up letters.
"STERN" would have been flagged as an illegal word because it doesn't have the letter 'a' in it.
My sister would do the same.

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Booo, put it in hard mode, where you are forced to use the letters that you've already found ... aggiesal 17 hrs ago #9

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