Boxed in by a small word list...

I'm Scott Strosahl, and today I'm trying the Letterboxed for September 14th.
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[@buggy879]

TAXPAYERS > SWIRLY > YEH.

[@CosmicNGS]

3:50 top 10 most heartbreaking scott stro solves moments

[@CosmicNGS]

5:56 this too

[@awg7232]

3:19 this made me stop watching to figure out if it would accept Listeria… and it did, so I continued for myself: LISTERIA - AXLES - SWIPE - EASY - YEH Also, you don’t need to worry about committing in this: backspace continues to work through previous words. Helps in figuring out where to go next.

[@SeismicViking]

Whilst, Taxpayer. random compound words will be your savior in this puzzle

[@PurpleSidewalk1]

Taxpayer is a disgustingly smart word 😅

[@StroSolves]

Shoot. I should've come up with taxpayer once I was thinking tax.

[@SeismicViking]

@@StroSolves there is always a 2 word solution for each letter boxed

[@buggy879]

​​@@StroSolvesI used Taxpayers Initaly I planned on Starting with Payer and trying to end with Tax. But though Id Try TAXPAYERS (I though taxpayer was 2 Words but Correct and Prefixes and Suffixes also are Very Useful.

[@PurpleSidewalk1]

@@SeismicViking good to know!

[@LuigiFan1akaStar]

I wonder if X-ray didn't count because of the - in the word, but xylyl should have been accepted though

[@Craznar]

It is a chemical term, and once you allow chemical terms - any combination of letters is likely a word :)

[@StroSolves]

Well, it's an acceptable word in wordle 🤷‍♂️

[@CarMedicine]

My solution: WHIRLS -> STAY -> YEP -> PAX

[@sonicloquendo]

I think you overfocused on trying to put the x at the beginning or end of a word when TAXES could have work just fine in the middle of the string. Not that it mattered in the end.

[@etrisplayer6169]

you cannot do taxes. just like I cannot do mine.

[@buggy879]

TAXPAYERS would be even Better

[@chinareds54]

I've played a couple of games, my strategy is to try to get a really long word to start off with and then fill in the missing letters after. You can just put in your words as you go. If you want to redo them just hit backspace they will unlock the previous word. It's actually kinda annoying because when I try to restart a word I often hit the backspace too many times and now I'm erasing the previous word.

[@HeadStrate]

Axle

[@QwDragon]

LAX was accepted too, if I remember correctly. Failed the puzzle anyway)

[@etrisplayer6169]

My par solution: THREW, WHIP, PLEASE, EYES, SAX

[@NotHexaaaa]

GGs! Here's my solution (spoilers): WHITE EARLY YES SAP PAX

[@Bilal_Aslam_]

You should play today’s Adoptle.

[@whippedcreamvibes1734]

this is a long one!

[@Gage7GD]

I got it in four swirly-yeah-help-pretax