on โ27-01-2022 01:45 AM
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 ๐คฃ
Solved! Go to Solution.
on โ19-04-2024 11:10 AM
On the other handโฆ
Daily Octordle #816
๐4๏ธโฃ
2๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
5๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ
7๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
Score: 51
I guessed 2L at row 2, with a suspicious mindset about the last letter.
Then I played an eliminator - SOILY. Based on where a letter could not go, I had a stab at 1R and could also solve 3L.
By now it was obvious what 4R must be, and as a result of playing that, I knew what 4L must be. In turn, that gave me 3R. By the time I came to 2R, there was only one possibility, and I now turned my attention to the final block, 1L. There could be only one answer.
on โ19-04-2024 11:18 AM
Daily Dordle 0816 4&3/7
โฌโฌโฌโฌ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐จโฌโฌโฌ
โฌ๐ฉ๐ฉโฌ๐จ โฌ๐ฉ๐จโฌ๐ฉ
โฌ๐ฉโฌ๐จ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle
TRACE was my starter, with LOUIS as my first eliminator. Guessing the RH word was easy, and as for the LH word, I had two choices for the first letter. It could have gone either way.
on โ19-04-2024 11:23 AM
Daily Quordle 816
6๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
m-w.com/games/quordle/
โฌโฌ๐จโฌโฌ โฌโฌ๐จโฌ๐จ
โฌ๐ฉโฌโฌโฌ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌโฌ๐จโฌ โฌโฌโฌ๐จโฌ
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌ๐จ๐ฉโฌ โฌโฌโฌ๐จโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ ๐ฉโฌโฌ๐จ๐ฉ
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
๐จ๐จโฌโฌโฌ ๐จโฌ๐จโฌโฌ
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ โฌ๐จโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌ๐ฉโฌโฌ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ฉโฌโฌ๐ฉ
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
7 again.
on โ20-04-2024 07:49 AM
Itโs s new day.
A new cold dark day. Outside, a swathe of greyness dims the reluctant morning, and the birds are silent. Ah, no, I hear a lone throat nowโฆ it is burbling a chirping cry.
Soโฆ let us Wordle forth.
Wordle 1,036 3/6
โฌโฌโฌ๐จโฌ
๐ฉโฌ๐จ๐ฉโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
If I post the eliminator that I used, the answer would be obvious. But it is very clear.
on โ20-04-2024 08:31 AM
Wordle 1,036 4/6
โฌ๐จ๐จโฌโฌ
โฌโฌโฌ๐จโฌ
๐จโฌโฌโฌโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
The 3rd word is an eliminator as I wasn't feeling it. You can probably even guess what it was. And it did help me a lot.
Bot made me laugh today though. He told me that my 3rd word was 'guaranteed to eliminate every word but one but it couldn't solve the puzzle given what was learned from my previous guesses'.
on โ20-04-2024 08:49 AM
Daily Octordle #817
9๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ
7๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ
3๏ธโฃ๐
5๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
Score: 52
I was happy with this but the funny thing is, I used an eliminator on turn 4 and looked across the board and was quite happy with it as it exposed several letters in various squares.
But it wasn't till the very end when I was clicking on the 'share' tab that I saw the list of word answers and thought, hang on, that eliminator was an answer for one of the squares? I had not noticed at all.
on โ20-04-2024 10:38 AM
That is bizarre! The eliminator left only one word but it couldnโt solve the puzzleโฆ? I think the bot must have been at the brandy.
Daily Octordle #817
๐4๏ธโฃ
5๏ธโฃ๐
8๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
7๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ
Score: 54
I had trouble at row 9; it just seemed to be a huge morass of stonewalling and I needed another eliminator.
on โ20-04-2024 10:43 AM
Daily Quordle 817
7๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ
6๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ
m-w.com/games/quordle/
๐จโฌ๐ฉโฌโฌ ๐จ๐จโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฉโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ ๐จโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌโฌ๐จโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
๐ฉโฌโฌโฌโฌ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ โฌโฌโฌ๐ฉ๐ฉ
โฌโฌ๐จโฌ๐จ โฌ๐จ๐จ๐จโฌ
โฌ๐ฉโฌโฌโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌ๐ฉ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
Seven, seven, nothing but seven.
on โ20-04-2024 10:49 AM
Daily Dordle 0817 2&5/7
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จโฌ๐จ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ ๐จ๐ฉโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ โฌโฌ๐จโฌ๐ฉ
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle
My eliminator at row 3 was BOUND.
on โ21-04-2024 08:19 AM
Well, it was lamost the walk of shame for me with wordle today.
Wordle 1,037 6/6
โฌ๐จโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌ๐จโฌโฌ
โฌโฌ๐จโฌโฌ
โฌ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉ๐ฉ
๐จ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉ๐ฉ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
The stupid thing is, the actual answer is one I was tempted to try on turn 4.
But my mind was ticking over, saying jolly/lolly/dolly/golly/folly or maybe even lobby, oddly, lowly.
So I thought.. can't risk it. I went with godly instead, which did allow me to cross out quite a few possibilities.
Bot was in my corner to some extent. He liked godly and was quite sympathetic on my last turn as he said I had eliminated most but now was in the unenviable position of just having to pick one of the possibilities and guess.