WORDLE - anyone else trying the daily online word game?

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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 🤣

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle #0066 6&4/7
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

It was anything but straightforward.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle #66
7️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
quordle.com
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

Okay.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #66
🔟5️⃣
6️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🕚
octordle.com

Given the variety of letters in the words, I don’t think I could have done much better.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 286 3/6

🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I had all of the letters after line 2, and only 1 possible answer.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle #0067 6&4/7
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

I had it narrowed down to the extremely rare word that was word 1, and still doubted it could possibly be that word. I’ve only encountered that word in one particular scholarly context before.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle Fools 67!
6️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
quordle.com
⬜⬜🧀⬜🥦 ⬜⬜⬜🧀⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🧀🧀🧀⬜
⬜🧀🧀⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🧀⬜⬜
🥦⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦
⬜🥦⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬜⬜🧀⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🥦
🧀⬜⬜🧀⬜ ⬜🥦⬜⬜🧀
🥦⬜⬜⬜🥦 ⬜🧀⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🥦⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🧀⬜
🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🥦⬜🥦
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦

What is with the broccoli and cheese selection????? Weird.

Welk, in terms of word solving, this was straightforward. My 3rd guess was an elimination word and it meant there was only one possibility for top right word and bottom left words. One possibility was then left for top left word. The bottom right word could have been 1 of 2, but one was a little more likely than the other… so I tried that first, and I was correct.

[countessalmirena]

It came down to the wire.

Daily Octordle #67
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣🕚
9️⃣8️⃣
🕐3️⃣
octordle.com

[springyzone]

Wordle 286 3/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

Daily Dordle #0067 6&4/7
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

Countess helped me here by saying one word was rare. My first 3 words plus my 5th try were all 'elimination' words, to try out as many letters as possible. I have never seen the answer word used, as far as I can recall.

But I had the position of one letter nailed, so I wrote down some possible combinations. None of them made real words, as far as I could tell.

But I didn't let that deter me, after what countess said. A couple of possibilities looked more likely than others so I googled 'meaning of...' and one possibility had a meaning.😁 So not entirely done above board on this one.

For anyone following me, apparently it means being said once. That won't be a huge help, believe me. 😁

[springyzone]

Daily Quordle Fools 67!
7️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
quordle.com
⬜⬜🧀🧀⬜ 🧀⬜⬜⬜🧀
⬜🧀🧀⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🧀⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🧀🧀⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🧀⬜⬜⬜
⬜🥦⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🥦⬜⬜
🥦⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦
🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬜⬜⬜🧀🧀 🧀⬜🧀⬜⬜
🧀⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🧀⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🥦⬜⬜⬜🥦 ⬜🥦⬜⬜⬜
🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🧀⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🥦⬜🥦
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🥦🥦🥦🥦🥦

Ah, I really just did this today as I wanted to see if I got cheese and broccoli. Yes.

Now I am off to the city to see a sistine chapel exhibit.