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]

Ah, this was satisfying in that it proved my theory from yesterday.

Today's game was identical except I solved one square at move 3 then used another eliminator at turn 4 & solved all without error after that.

Yesterday I used my first 3 turns with eliminators then started solving without error.

But the score of 59 reflects how much difference that makes, exactly.

Daily Octordle #690
7️⃣🕚
8️⃣9️⃣
🔟3️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
Score: 59

[springyzone]

Daily Quordle 690
7️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

I decided to give quordle a go again today. I swear one of the answers is the same as one in octordle.

These puzzle people work together, I am sure of it, or use the same word lists at any rate.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 909 3/6

🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨🟨🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

TRACE and SPOIL - it was a pleasure to solve.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0690 4&5/7
⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

TRACE and LINGO started things off.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 690
7️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣3️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

Shades of G&S!

[countessalmirena]

Morning has broken…

Wordle 910 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟨⬛⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Starter was TRACE. I used LINGO as my 2nd, and that made up for the poor return on the starter.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0691 5&4/7
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

SLATE, with GOURD as the 2nd row eliminator… and I still needed another eliminator for row 3.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 691
5️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

7 again. Even though I had a lucky break with an eliminator word being one of the solutions, I still ended up with 7.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #691
🔟3️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

CRATE, then LOUIS: this was enough to know that 1R and 4R were of the same pattern. 

[springyzone]

Wordle 910 4/6

⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

After my second word, I could see the pattern would be _LO_E but I could think of 6 words that would fit. My favs of the 6 were elope and globe but I also quite liked clove. My 3rd word was therefore an eliminator, pubic, which cut my choices down nicely to globe and bloke. I suspected it would not be bloke as 1. too Australian and 2. I seem to recall it was used a couple of years back, to the extreme ire of the American public. 😂