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]

Daily Octordle #647
3️⃣9️⃣
🔟🕚
🕛7️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 61

Had to smile at your comment you were not in good form, with a score of 55.

I was reasonably happy with my effort although I tried another eliminator at 6 (perky), just to see if some of my lines of thought were on the rigfht track. It did help. I made a wrong guess with #5 (tribe instead of trite) but at least today I got there in the end. Didn't do octordle at all yesterday.

[springyzone]

I had started wordle when I remembered that today I wasn't going to use my usual starters, so I changed my second. I can't say it was a lot of help.

Wordle 867 4/6

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The 3rd word was just out of desperation as I knew it could not be it but I had trouble thinking of anything for second spot that was not my first yellow. It helped me get out of that mind set, at least.

I just looked up the bot information about my guess and it told me off.🤣

It said there was only one possible solution and I should have known mine was wrong from my previous guess.

I did, but sometimes when nothing comes to mind, I do any word just to help sort letter placement.

[springyzone]

Now onto octordle. I used the usual starters and I must say, they came into their own today. Nothing got solved in one or anything dramatic but after 2 turns, I had enough to go on to start solving.

Today I got a countess score. I was so pleased.

Daily Octordle #648
🔟9️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 867 3/6

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I have never looked at that bot information! Hmm, it’s not telling me off, which is just as well as I wasn’t in the mood to be chastised by a bot.

My starter was STARE. I used DINGO as my 2nd row eliminator.

(But really… US spelling does disadvantage us…)

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0648 3&6/7
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

Grrr. The answer is an abbreviation. I dismissed it as a possibility at row 4 because it is an abbreviation, only for Dordle to bite the hand that feeds its guesses!

Bad bad Dordle.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 648
6️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
🟨🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

Darn that first letter for Top Right! I guessed wrongly… but at least I didn’t fall into the wrong-letter-the-second-time trap.

[countessalmirena]

That is such a good score! Well reasoned and logical and intuitive.

Both you and I left that top left word until last. It challenged me; I just could not think of what it might be until I started thinking of double duty possibilities.

Daily Octordle #648
🔟9️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣2️⃣
Score: 48

My starter was STAIR. I used POUND as my row 6 eliminator.

[springyzone]

Oh woe is me, a bit of a disaster with octordle today.

I swear I didn't make any outright stupid mistakes, as in trying a word that was an impossibility, but early on I did try out 2 very possible contenders that ended up.. wrong.

So for my 5th word, I used another eliminator, which is what i perhaps should have done for turn 3 and saved myself some bother.

Towards the end, I was sure one letter was going to feature in the last 2, if not 3, of the remaining squares. Unfortunately I used it in the very one that didn't have it.

Spoiler

The letter was V. I tried viper in square 4. I suspected riper, piper or viper but ran out of turns. Just not a good day today for me!

I forgot to add my octordle results, after all that!

 Daily Octordle #649
🕐🔟
7️⃣🟥
9️⃣🕛
8️⃣6️⃣
Score: 79

[springyzone]

And wordle wasn't working (opening) this morning when I first tried it but is now.

Wordle 868 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛🟨
⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I was pleased at least with this one. The wordle bot was happier with me today too.😂

It told me alien was a good starter and my second word was exactly what it would have tried and I had no excuse now for not getting it right next turn.🤣

[springyzone]

Decided to try the other 2 today as it puts off the evil moment I need to start some housework.

Daily Quordle 649
3️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟨⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

And dordle is moving or some such thing.

Daily Dordle 0649 5&3/7
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle