on โ27-01-2022 01:45 AM
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 ๐คฃ
Solved! Go to Solution.
on โ18-01-2023 04:01 PM
Yes, I discovered that too on my second turn, and I also knew T was out, so I guessed it would start with C but went through chary and charm before I hit on the right answer.๐
on โ18-01-2023 06:08 PM
Wordle 578 3/6
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CATER
HOUND
on โ19-01-2023 09:34 AM
My second word was SHARD. It sounded good at the time!
on โ19-01-2023 10:06 AM
Wordle 579 3/6
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Not what I expected. A bit of a dirty word if you ask me.
on โ19-01-2023 10:39 AM
Wordle 579 4/6
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on โ19-01-2023 12:44 PM
Wordle 579 3/6
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SLIMY
CROUT
Yes, this word has me reaching for a pair gloves and a good dose of detergent!
on โ19-01-2023 01:00 PM
My path to it didn't start off well.
alien-with not a single letter to show for it
chord
bumpy
Finally got it after that!
on โ19-01-2023 02:41 PM
Daily Dordle 0360 4&3/7
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zaratustra.itch.io/dordle
TRACE
SOUND
โฆ and I was well on the way.
on โ20-01-2023 08:54 AM
I am in a mood, could kick myself. Just goes to show what happens when you are distracted.
And when you are debating which starter to use and choose the wrong one.
Wordle 580 5/6
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After my 3rd try, I tinkered with the letters and was pretty sure I had it. But then had an interruption, came back a few minutes later and couldn't remember what it was but a word came to me so I thought that was it & quickly typed it in, only to realise it was one I had rejected earlier as impossible.
But the real kicker is that had I started with alien as I was almost going to, I think I could possibly have solved this in 2. That's life though!
on โ20-01-2023 10:31 AM
Wordle 580 3/6
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I started with CATER.
The unknown letter could have been one of four possibilities. I rejected two of them as unlikely, but between the remaining two there was nothing to swing it one way or the other.
Given that - that is, that the 2nd place letter was almost certainly either L or F - there was no point in using an eliminator. Iโd make the correct guess on either the 2nd or 3rd row.