I also beat the bot by half a guess today.
Wordle 948 3/6*
🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜ SLOPE
🟩⬜🟨🟨⬜ SALTY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STILL
They measure skill and luck, but they don't measure intuition. I use a different starting word each day, just whatever comes to me. It seems to work more often than not.
Not sure I'll finish Connections today. I guessed the yellow and purple but the blue and green are so similar to each other that it just seems like an economic word soup.