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]

Yes, you’re absolutely right, springyzone — g vs q.

Wordle 793 3/6

⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I used TRACE again as the starter, and I knew immediately what the answer must be, except for the first letter. I used an eliminator designed to bore down on those initial letter possibilities, and voilà.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0574 5&3/7
🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

New baby? Oh well.

My starter was SANER.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 574
5️⃣1️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

Lucky first word!

After that, I had to work for it.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #574
9️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣🕚
Score: 53

One wrong guess…

[springyzone]

Wordle 794 4/6

⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Lucky to even make it in 4 as after turn 2, I had a pretty good idea of where the yellow must go and the overall shape of the word, but even after turn 3 there were other possibilities.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 794 3/6

🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟩⬛🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My starter today was INEPT. When my second gave me the starting letter (which I strongly suspected to be what it was before I played my second row), I was in a very good place because I’d carefully chosen my second row eliminator to confirm or rule out letter possibilities for the very letter that gave you a hard time, springyzone.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0575 5&4/7
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

I made guesses for both words here, after eliminating other likely possibilities.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 575
3️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle
🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

I used SCARE as my starter.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #575
4️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
🕚3️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Score: 53

Final word is a US one.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 795 4/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I don’t think I could have guessed this in fewer than four rows.