As you posted this on 5/8/24 and "pious" was the answer on 5/8/24, I'm surmising you'd been limiting guesses to words on this list, so that must've been quite frustrating. You're right. Of course, now it shouldn't be on the list, but on 5/8/24, it should've been. My first question when looking at this list, though, was (and still is): Did this person somehow acquire an actual list of 5-letter words the New York Times is randomly taking words from without replacement to derive this list or did this person just make up their own list made up of words they guess such a list might include? As I'd find it specious that this person acquired The New York Times' actual list, if one even exists, I was leaning toward it being the latter before, but now that I read your comment, I'm leaning much more strongly toward it being the latter, toward this all being based on this person's guesswork, guesswork that you with your example, along with a number of other people here with a number of other examples, proved is not accurate, so not accurate as to be unreliable.