[peeters]

It's too bad hard mode only requires that you use positive clues, not negative. I've been trying to push "true hard mode" with my work colleagues. Where every guess must be a potential winner given the information revealed thus far.

So, hard mode, plus no reusing grey letters, plus no using yellow letters in the same incorrect slot.

[alkonaut]

What, one can re-use a gray letter in hard mode? That's not hard enough!. I find the fun challenge isn't finding the final word but finding valid guesses (i.e. words that exist and aren't using any grays) along the way.

[albert_e]

this is my default approach unless really out of options i can think of

but i do slip up at times and jump to punch in a word that i later realize violates one of those yellow rules for instance