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 Octordle #743
9️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣🕚
7️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
Score: 53

Grrrrrr. That final word… 2R… 4th letter… I made the wrong guess.

[springyzone]

Wordle 964 3/6

🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Because I knew 3 letters after my first turn, I decided to skip my usual second word and see if I could work on letter placement. It helped a lot, but Bot was not at all happy with it.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #745
5️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣🕚
Score: 53

It flowed easily enough today but I did have one lucky move that helped a lot.

Spoiler

7th word along, the answer jumped out at me but it could just as easily have been taunt. I was just lucky.

l

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Wordle 964 3/6

🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Because I knew 3 letters after my first turn, I decided to skip my usual second word and see if I could work on letter placement. It helped a lot, but Bot was not at all happy with it.

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¡Ay, caramba!

I have it in 2!

Wordle 964 2/6

⬛⬛🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My most frequently used starter - TRACE - gave me a superb start, and my eliminator - which was the actual solution - was apparently exactly what the bot would have played.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #745
6️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
🔟3️⃣
Score: 52

Main bit of luck was in my refraining from the major’s opposite. The alternative guess that I did make helped with other words as well.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 745
6️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜🟨🟩🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

Another 7. I don’t seem able to shake the 7 as my usual Quordle result.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0745 4&3/7
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

Well, this was a nice result.

LOUIS, then TRACE.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 965 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Oh, the sweet pleasure of seeing the bot admit it would have reached the answer only on the 5th guess…!

Spoiler

 

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #746
🔟9️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

I started with TRACE, and BOUND was my 2nd.

Warning: US spelling for one of the words.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0746 5&3/7
⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

TRACE again as my starter… I’d have done better with a different one, but never mind.