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#730: Kazoo

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Prompt: posed, glowy, throb, canon, kazoo --v 5.1
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I figured this one out in 5 guesses.

Do I think the bot represented my guesses?

posed
Yes!
glowy
Yes!
throb
Yes!
canon
Maybe...
kazoo
Yes!

This puzzle was a little rough on me. I share my “censored” wordle solutions with a group of friends on Discord, and one of them wrote about her puzzle solving experience: “This one made me feel like I went on a short walk that was twisty and turny but I got a treat at the end.”

That experience sounded really nice as I flipped back to my unsolved puzzle, which felt more like moving a couch upstairs to a fifth-floor walk up.

I definitely got stuck on a landing for awhile, but managed to figure it out without sawing the couch in half (mostly because I ran out of letters).

This one was funny because the KAZOO is definitely coming out of his chin. Also, I am interpreting THROB as heart throb here.

CANON, initially, I was like, sure, the KAZOO sort of looks like a cannon, but then I realized that this guess has one too few Ns, and is not a projectile-firing weapon, but rather a noun with a more conceptual meaning. So… maybe…