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]

Wordle 1,009 3/6

⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Bot marked my second word eliminator as downright terrible but it helped me, anyway.

I could think of 2 words, which gave me pause, but I chose the right one for a change!

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #790
🔟6️⃣
🕚4️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
Score: 60

Several repeat words here. The first one  is on rotation every few months, I suspect.😁

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,010 4/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟨🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I don't think I could have solved this any faster, given my starting words.

[springyzone]

Just did octordle.

A few tricky patches (for me), where I could think of 2 perfectly possible answers.

#7, I thought of 2 possibilities but held off till last. Just as well. The answer was one I thought of first but then I thought-surely not again. Surely they will pick the other possibility this time. But nope, it was the usual!

Daily Octordle #791
3️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
🕚🔟
🕛9️⃣
Score: 62

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,010 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

With SPOIL as my eliminator at row 2, there was one obvious answer.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #791
5️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣🔟
4️⃣🕚
Score: 55

This was quite tricky.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,011 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I really needed that 3rd word eliminator as I just didn't have enough to narrow it down.

Bot used tyros as his second word. There is no way I would have thought to use it, not sure I have heard of it.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #792
🕚3️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
🕐6️⃣
🕛8️⃣
Score: 69

It didn't feel that hard but I did take a bit of a ramble through it today.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,011 3/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My eliminator should have been my STARTER! Then the feathers would have been flying in my little Wordle-chicken-coop!

[countessalmirena]

Re tyro… it dates back to around 1600. It is not infrequently found in writings from the Georgian period and is still in use. Earliest use: in Coryat's Crudities: Hastily gobled up in Five Moneth's Travels (1611).