An old, fat fool starts a log. Hope no-one minds

Four for me. Abandoned the tactical approach and went for sheer guesswork just for something different.

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The momentum continues. From this point everything will be a personal best and so the pressure is off and the beard stroking can be of the more relaxed variation.

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Very productive now-standard first two.

5

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A fast 4.

A disappointing five

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The first three usual factfinders found enough facts for this to be a routine day. The fourth attempt appeared very quickly and carried high confidence, but being wrong caused some stroking of the beard and it was a disappointingly long while for me to think of another option. Onward and upward though

And again we see negative wording attached to a 5.

A fairly quick 3, thought it was going to be a two after the first guess but alas no

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A passable four. Standard openers, mildly speculative third and only one option remained as far as I could ascertain.

I am also fairly convinced that my opener will never be a word of the day as it’s slightly obscure but does the job for me. Yet, I won’t change it just in case…

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5

A quick and fortunate 2

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A pretty tactical four. Too many options after the second to take a punt on the third so this should have delivered a four, five or six and it landed as a four.

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3 today. A fortunate choice for the 2nd word helped to avoid a 4 or 5.

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What could have been a glorious two, wasn't. A three instead.

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A very lucky first attempt as you see, and a perfectly sensible second attempt.

So I was lucky, but could have been luckier, on the plus side, I didn't make anyway mistakes which is never a bad thing :-)

Threes are my favourite.