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 🤣

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 877 3/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My starter was ROUGH, which wasn’t too bad for today. I almost used LINGO, which would also have been fine.

I used an eliminator to whittle away at vowels in particular. Then I had it.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0658 5&3/7
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

LOUIS and TRACE  gave me what information they could… I still needed another eliminator to help with the LH word, so it’s 5/3 today’s Dordle.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 658
3️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟩🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟨⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

Grrrrr. Frustrating. It’s still a 7-row scenario.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #658
7️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
🔟4️⃣
Score: 52

I did actually use SLATE as my starter for today’s Octordle. It was not an ideal word but after using MOUND as my 2nd row eliminator, I could at least guess the top right.

[springyzone]

Must be ESP.

I decided to also use SLATE but I used it to start today's wordle.

After telling me endlessly, day after day, that I should be starting with that, Bot was absolutely ecstatic today with my first turn. Less than impressed with my subsequent turns, however.😂

Wordle 878 4/6

🟩⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

I found octordle harder today. Not that the answers are hard words, just that it took me longer to solve. I started with slate & followed with odium.

Daily Octordle #659
🔟3️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
🕚5️⃣
Score: 59

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 878 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I started with CATER. I was luckier with my 2nd row eliminator - PUSHY.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0659 5&4/7
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

I started with STALE, and used ROUND to follow. I still needed another eliminator after that.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0659 5&4/7
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

My starter was STALE, and I used ROUND to follow. I still needed another eliminator after that.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 659
7️⃣6️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

TARES was my Quordle starter. Perhaps I should have tried a 2nd row wide-as-possible word, to give a good array for each block, but instead I focused on an eliminator for bottom left, given that I knew I was looking for a letter in a specific location…

Quordle is probably the most frustrating of these Wordle-type puzzles.