WORDLE - anyone else trying the daily online word game?

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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 746
3️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

I was lucky with my final guess; it could have been at least two other words.

[springyzone]

Wordle 965 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I abandoned my usual second word and tried something different because it left my green in place but tried out 4 other letters, most of them 'good' ones. (I have my favourites 😂). Bot suggested crust would have been much better.

Bot then told me I was lucky and yes, I noticed he took 5 turns today, so who's he to talk! 😁

[springyzone]

I had a bit of a hiccup on turn 5 but otherwise smooth.

Daily Octordle #746
🕚🔟
4️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
Score: 58

[springyzone]

Wordle 966 4/6

⬛⬛🟩🟩⬛
🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Bot & I are just not on the same wavelength. 

He wasn't at all keen on my second word, but I chose it as I could see there were a lot of possible answers but most followed a certain pattern & I thought my word would narrow it down, which it did. Not completely, but it helped.

Spoiler

I chose drops. I was pretty sure letter two would turn out to be R & I wanted to test out D, P & S.
My third word was tried.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #747
🕚🕛
4️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣🔟
2️⃣9️⃣
Score: 59

The only reason it is under 60 is because I managed to solve a word at turn 2.

But then I made 2 mistakes on turns 7 & 8.

Spoiler

spill & vowel. I could see the alternatives but thought these seemed likely. Wrong! 😁

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 966 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My starter - TRACE - proved to be surprisingly fortunate today. (Surprisingly, because the yield was only one green and one yellow, but that ruled out a good many words.)

I’d best not say which word I used for my eliminator, as it rules out everything except the answer.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #747
🔟5️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

If I hadn’t chosen WOUND as my 2nd row eliminator, this would have been far more than 52.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0747 3&5/7
🟩🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

TRACE and BOUND were a lucky start. I still needed to rule out some possibilities for the RH word…

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 747
3️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟩⬜🟩🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜🟩⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

Ohhhh, I made a completely wrong guess in my 2nd row. My starter was an odd one; I don’t think I’ve used it before - SOUPY.

I was dreading the outcome but it ended up being no worse than usual. Seven. Another seven. Ah me, ah my.

[springyzone]

Wordle 967 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

After my first turn, I sat and pondered for a moment on possible answers but in the end, I went with my usual second word because I wanted to find out about O & T, one way or the other.