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]

Now THIS is a result with teeth!

Wordle 293 2/6

⬛🟨🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

There were only two word possibilities after my first guess. One was far more likely than the other.

Having the right initial word is the basis for the whole game.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle #0074 4&5/7
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

I can’t complain…

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 74
7️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
quordle.com
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

I did need that 4th line elimination word… 

[countessalmirena]

Some tricky words…

Daily Octordle #74
8️⃣5️⃣
🕛4️⃣
🔟6️⃣
🕚9️⃣
octordle.com

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Now THIS is a result with teeth!

Wordle 293 2/6

⬛🟨🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

There were only two word possibilities after my first guess. One was far more likely than the other.

Having the right initial word is the basis for the whole game.

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😄😂

It is funny because I am on the computer reasonably early (for me) and before I logged in here, I decided to do wordle. I managed to get it in 3 and was quite pleased with myself, then I wondered how you had done & when I opened this thread, I saw you got it in only 2! You're a hard person to match, countess.😁 Congratulations.

At least it is a normal word. While I have been away, I have done some wordle clones on the phone-and some of the answers have been plain weird.

There was one game I did where I bombed out completely. I had never seen the answer before or heard of it, so I googled for meaning and there was none. The internet didn't recognise it as any type of word.

Wordle 293 3/6

⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I agree, if you can get the initial letter, it is a real help.

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[springyzone]

Daily Dordle #0074 5&4/7
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

[springyzone]

Daily Quordle 74
7️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
quordle.com
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

My first 3 words were all elimination words but after that, the answers seemed fairly obvious today. Am I going mad or was one of the answers the same as in the dordle? In one word I had the exact same letter clues and I thought, surely not again, but it was.

[countessalmirena]

Two of my most-often-used starting words are STARE and TRACE. They are particularly good, most frequently, for giving a nice start to the guessing.

[countessalmirena]

Springy, what was the “bombed” word? (If you can remember it…) I would like to do some digging if possible.

[countessalmirena]

Are they designing Wordle now just to make me feel euphoric????

Wordle 294 2/6

🟩🟩🟩🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I want some champagne.