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 897 3/6

🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I used TRACE as my starter; with POUND as my second row eliminator, there was nowhere for those letters to run or hide!

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #678
2️⃣4️⃣
🔟🕚
8️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
Score: 53

2R - there were two possible letters in the middle, and I chose the wrong one…

However, I had an excellent start with TRACE, and FILMY as my 3rd row eliminator wasn’t bad.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0678 5&4/7
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩🟩⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

TRACE, then SLIMY, were my first two. I still needed another eliminator.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 678
3️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟩🟩⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

This felt amazingly good to solve. Every solution was well-oiled, leading to the next, and the next.

I started with SLATE followed by COUGH.

[springyzone]

Wordle 898 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My first turn wasn't as successful as some.

Bot told me there were over 300 words left but I was lucky with the second guess, in that the yellow placement of the vowel cut out most possible answers.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #679
9️⃣3️⃣
🕚5️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 53

I am actually really annoyed with myself over this score, although I know it is a lot better than most of my attempts. I was going along really well till the very final word (#3), and then I went and spoilt it all by putting in a word that it could not possibly be. I checked that I wasn't putting any letter in a spot where I knew it to be yellow, but what I did was forgot to include a letter I knew should be in it.

Spoiler

In #3, I was excited to think of fugue but I had overlooked the fact the word had to have R.🙄

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 898 3/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I started with SLATE. The eliminator ruled out some words but it also confirmed that I was on the right track with my gut instinct. 

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #679
9️⃣3️⃣
🕚5️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 53

I am actually really annoyed with myself over this score, although I know it is a lot better than most of my attempts. I was going along really well till the very final word (#3), and then I went and spoilt it all by putting in a word that it could not possibly be. I checked that I wasn't putting any letter in a spot where I knew it to be yellow, but what I did was forgot to include a letter I knew should be in it.

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You were as close as the shadow of a mouse’s whisker, springyzone.

Daily Octordle #679
9️⃣8️⃣
🔟7️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
Score: 52

CATER, then HOUND, got things started for me. 

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0679 4&3/7
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟨⬜🟨
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

I started with STALE and followed that with GROIN. I could see 3 possibles for the RH word and from experience I strongly suspected one more than the others.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 679
6️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

It definitely lacked yesterday’s smoothness.