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 🤣

[springyzone]

Had to show you this, it is my worst effort in a while, where I actually got through.

Daily Octordle #553
🕐6️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
🔟8️⃣
🕚🕛
Score: 76

The poor score is because I didn't actually start to solve till turn 6.

It is making me laugh as today I decided not to start with my usuals, which would be alien/shout

or ratio/pulse.

Instead, I went with ocean. I wasted a few turns on #1, with slide and glide.

[springyzone]

Wordle 773 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟨🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Had 4 letters after the second word, couldn't think of a thing so tried a word I knew it couldn't be, just to test placement. After that, it came to me easily. But probably should have got this in 3.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #554
8️⃣🔟
6️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

My absolute best, maybe best ever, I am not sure.

I was so disappointed to miss yesterday's eliminator words that I decided to go with different starters, so used fluid/trace (I know, one of yours).

[springyzone]

Wordle 775 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 775 3/6

🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It’s getting on now, so I’ll be open about which words I used.

I started with TRACE, and my second was SPINY. I didn’t need anything else, of course!

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #554
8️⃣🔟
6️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

My absolute best, maybe best ever, I am not sure.

I was so disappointed to miss yesterday's eliminator words that I decided to go with different starters, so used fluid/trace (I know, one of yours).

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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0556 5&4/7
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

CATER and LOUGH were my starter and 2nd row eliminator, and as you can, I had very little to show for my efforts. I threw in SPINY, and had a strong suspicion about what the RH word might be. I tried it; not only was I right, but this gave away the LH word.

Done!

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 556
5️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

Hmmm. I can’t say this was a pleasure to solve.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #556
9️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
🔟4️⃣
6️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

We ended up with a similar result - nice!

[springyzone]

Wordle 776 3/6

🟨🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟨🟩🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

After my first starter, I wondered... could it possibly be one of Countess's words? Nope, it wasn't, but at least it gave me one extra letter and positioned one of the others!