Schrödinger's Wordle

During the course of the past few years, my morning routine has changed in several ways. One of these changes involves a small daily ritual whereby Megan and I try to solve several word and music puzzles before launching into the rest of our day. This is sometimes hindered by me being on a ferry or in the 'wrong' archipelago, but mainly we are able to attempt the Daily Wordle, a generic Quordle, Heardle Decades 1970s (my era), Heardle Decades 1980s (a bit of common musical ground), Heardle Decades 1990s (Megan's era), the Daily Quordle, and finally, the Daily Quordle Sequence. And usually in that order, for some reason.

The Wordle puzzles are as described above. Quordle is four 5-letter words in 9 chances. Quordle Sequence has 10 chances, as each word has to be completed before you see the letters for the next word. Heardle is a song intros game, with 6 chances to guess the artist and song with the snippets increasing from 2 seconds up to 17 seconds.

We usually solve the word games, but occasionally crash and burn if we haven't realised it might be an American spelling. The music stuff is more of a challenge, as even in our own eras (and read that as teens), we weren't interested in all genres, so it can be a bit of a lottery. Every now and then though, we hit it lucky and manage all three decades (and incredibly rarely, all at the first attempt).

For the word games, we alternate who goes first each day, and earlier this week, I was presented with the following Wordle scenario to put in the second line...

The first word is 'ideal', but as none of the letters are correct, it isn't really ideal. As it says at the top of the page, this is Schrödinger's Wordle!