WORDLE - anyone else trying the daily online word game?

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

I recently stumbled across WORDLE online.  For the uninitiated, it is a daily word guessing game where you have to try to guess the word in 6 or less tries.

https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/

This, from Wikipedia, explains the game:

Every day, a five-letter word is chosen which players aim to guess within six tries. After every guess, each letter is marked as either green, yellow or gray: green indicates that letter is correct and in the correct position, yellow means it is in the answer but not in the right position, while gray indicates it is not in the answer at all. The game has a "hard mode" option, which requires players to include letters marked as green and yellow in subsequent guesses. The daily word is the same for everyone. The game also has a dark mode as well as a high-contrast theme for colourblind accessibility, which changes the color scheme from green and yellow to orange and blue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordle

This abc news story has some tips for playing:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-01-26/why-wordle-has-become-a-new-online-obsession/100782794

I have found that most that most days I can get the daily word in 5 tries or less (mostly 5 though).  Interestingly, there is a spinoff of WORDLE called LEWDLE, where the words are lewd, or naughty, words.  I have better success with LEWDLE than I do with WORDLE . . . getting the word in just 2 or 3 attempts.  Not sure what that says about my private school education 🤣

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

my brain hurts just looking at your post !

Tell your son to behave

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Hmmm.

This Wordle go doesn’t give me the same feeling. Have they changed it?

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The link that K1000 put up used to be for a UK site but will now take you to the NY Times.

I read that they recently bought out the rights for wordle or that version of it.

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[springyzone]

Wordle 244 5/6

🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Took a while. I always find it easier if I can work out the first letter earlier. No such luck today.

[springyzone]

I did a quordle. it isn't copying and pasting properly but they took 4,6,8 & 9 guesses. Got there in the end. Just.

[*sons_and_daughters*]

Nearly got me again today. I beat it though! 

Re the NY Times site, as I mentioned the other day, they are suggesting they won't have the same word for all players. I really think that will take the fun out of it, because if I have another failure like yesterday, others won't be able to say, well, it ended up being this word, how did you not guess that, you numpty? Instead, they have no idea what my word was to compare with.

Wordle 244 5/6

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[janeababe]

Wordle 244 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

my usual 4….. again.😂

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

Wordle 244 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

4 again

[ambercat16]

Wordle 244 5/6

⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟩🟨⬜
⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

5 again for me

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

I think luck can play a large part for some letter combinations.

I started getting cocky when I was getting it in 3 . . . then I came back to earth with some 4s and 5s.

Apparently, "CAULK" ended a lot of player winning streaks.  There was a twitterstorm over it.  

[countessalmirena]

That was an easy one for me. I am well acquainted with caulking; I have a caulking gun and do I feel lucky, Wordle? Well, do I?

Yes, I did.