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]

Daily Quordle 724
6️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

And… as usual.

[springyzone]

Wordle 944 4/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Bot captured my thoughts exactly about my 3rd guess.

"You had two words to choose from and you chose the wrong one. That's a bummer." 😅

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #725
4️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣🕚
🔟5️⃣
Score: 57

This felt a bit like what you described yesterday-although I solved several words in a row from turn 3, I still was not hitting the letters I needed to know about and there were a lot of them.

Even when I had a good idea of the structure of a word and the probable letters, I was still guessing at the end with 6 & 7. I was just lucky I guessed right, because even with most letters exposed by then, there were still alternatives.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #725
4️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
🔟6️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

This could have gone very wrong for me, but I was lucky all the way. Where there was more than one possibility, I chose the right one… but what an uncomfortable way to play!

I’m pasting the screenshots into the spoiler below, to show how perilous this was.

Spoiler

1L, 1R
1L - This was a safe guess, and 1R couldn’t be much else after the S placement.

2L, 2R
2R could have been SPICK or SLICK… so again, lucky choice.
2L - straightforward.

3L, 3R
3R could have been APING, AVING (unlikely) or AWING rather than AGING, so this was something of a risk.
3L - straightforward.

4L, 4R
Solving 4L first… it could have been bribe or brine… I took my first risk.
Later, MOTIF (4R) - straightforward.

So… three lucky guesses.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Wordle 944 4/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Bot captured my thoughts exactly about my 3rd guess.

"You had two words to choose from and you chose the wrong one. That's a bummer." 😅

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How tempting to smack the bot…

Wordle 944 3/6

🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I started with TRACE, and my eliminator DOING was a good choice.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0725 3&5/7
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜🟩⬜🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

LH word needed luck again; that first letter could have any of 7 possibilities.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 725
5️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

7 again. 

This flowed smoothly, but it’s those three initial words - starter and 2 eliminators - that hold things up.

[countessalmirena]

…

       Moments shuffle against the couplings of other moments, and time brings the fretful freight of night to a slow crawl.

It is 4:31 am.

Perhaps a Dordle and a cup of tea will relax my mind.

Wordle 945 2/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My most oft-used starter gave me enough to take a running guess at the solution.

(The bot was full of admiration and had nothing sarcastic or chiding to say.)

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0726 4&5/7
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

TRACE starter… terrible 2nd row eliminator… fantastic 3rd row eliminator.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 726
4️⃣6️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟨⬜🟩⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

My first 6-rower for a while… I started with PHONY for a change, and then played TRACE.