In summary, the player played the New York Times daily word game and found that they had a higher fail rate in playing against Spanish-speaking humans. They also mentioned that the game is similar to a board game they remember from their childhood.
I was under the mistaken impression that playing hardmode would prevent me from guessing at the same words twice, or putting a wrongly placed letter the same place several times. Not so apparently.
My only excuse is that's 23:39 and I've been looking at code most of the day.
EDIT: At least I can try again in 20 minutes if I can stay awake. :)