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 โ23-04-2024 11:47 AM
Wordle 1,039 4/6
โฌ๐จโฌโฌ๐จ
๐ฉ๐ฉโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌ๐ฉ๐ฉโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
Ah wellโฆ it needed 4, and thereby ends my tale (as the mouse almost said).
on โ23-04-2024 12:10 PM
Daily Octordle #820
8๏ธโฃ๐
6๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ
7๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
Score: 52
3R was obvious, and after that, 3L became obvious.
Then 4R - easy enough.
And now things slowed down.
I couldnโt solve 4L until Iโd solved 2L - and 2L involved something of a guess.
In the wake of solving 4L, I could solve 1L.
Having solved both 1L and 4L, I could solve 2R.
I was left with 1R - and once more I needed a guess based on the three letters Iโd uncovered, and what remained unplayed. I made a guess that felt right.
on โ24-04-2024 06:44 AM
Wordle 1,040 2/6
๐จ๐จโฌโฌ๐จ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
My opener (the most usual one) gave me a good start, but I took the sort of risk thatโs unusual for me in trying out a guess for the 2nd row. I really should have gone for an eliminator, but a word had popped into my mind and I thoughtโฆ letโs try it. Itโs not life or death.
And it was correct.
on โ24-04-2024 07:13 AM
Daily Octordle #821
9๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
๐3๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ
7๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
Score: 52
There were a couple of words that could have been a few different things. I held off on solving two or three words in the hopes of being able to rule in or out a few letters, but I just had to go for two of them: 4R (with that initial letter), and 2L (which might have started with a particular letter and might have included a double, or might NOT have included a double and had instead another letter, or might have been an anagram of thatโฆ).
โ26-04-2024 06:04 AM - edited โ26-04-2024 06:04 AM
@countessalmirena wrote:My opener (the most usual one) gave me a good start, but I took the sort of risk thatโs unusual for me in trying out a guess for the 2nd row. I really should have gone for an eliminator, but a word had popped into my mind and I thoughtโฆ letโs try it. Itโs not life or death.
And it was correct.
I should have read this before I tried wordle today. But too late! ๐
After my first guess, a word popped into my mind but I thought nope, try to work out what other possibilities there could be. An immediate and obvious one then occurred to me and I thought maybe it was more the sort of common word the Bot might go for.
Should have gone with my first thought but as you know, my first thoughts often lead me astray! ๐
Wordle 1,042 3/6
๐จโฌ๐จโฌโฌ
โฌ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
on โ26-04-2024 06:08 AM
Daily Octordle #823
9๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
๐6๏ธโฃ
๐7๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ
Score: 61
I had a similar thing happen to me in #5 & 8, in that the first answers that occurred to me, I didn't go with & I should have.
on โ26-04-2024 09:00 AM
Wordle 1,042 3/6
โฌโฌ๐จโฌโฌ
๐จ๐จโฌ๐จโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
I didnโt know where we were going wordwiseโฆ until the eliminator helped out.
on โ26-04-2024 09:28 AM
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Daily Quordle 823
5๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ
7๏ธโฃ2๏ธโฃ
m-w.com/games/quordle/
๐ฉโฌโฌโฌ๐จ โฌ๐ฉ๐ฉโฌ๐จ
๐ฉ๐จโฌโฌโฌ โฌ๐จ๐ฉ๐จโฌ
โฌโฌ๐จโฌโฌ โฌโฌโฌ๐จโฌ
โฌโฌโฌ๐ฉ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌโฌโฌ๐จ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ๐จโฌ
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
๐จโฌโฌโฌโฌ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌโฌ๐ฉโฌ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌ๐จ๐ฉโฌ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
on โ26-04-2024 09:59 AM
Daily Octordle #823
5๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
3๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
๐8๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ๐
Score: 54
I used CATER as my starter, and FOUND as my 2nd row eliminator. Things were moving along nicely โฆ but when I had only two words left to solve, I was faced with a dilemma.
4R - the final letter. Was it x or y? (Youโll know what I mean.) And 3L - I knew by that point that letters 3 and 4 must be zz or aa. Itโs possible I would guess correctly - but the chances were higher than Iโd guess at least one incorrectly. In that case Iโd lose nothing by ruling in or out the possibilities for both words, if I could do that in one move. I used a word that covered all possibilitiesโฆ and there we are.
on โ26-04-2024 10:08 AM
Daily Quordle 823
4๏ธโฃ2๏ธโฃ
6๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ
m-w.com/games/quordle/
โฌโฌ๐จโฌโฌ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌโฌ๐ฉ๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
๐ฉ๐จโฌโฌโฌ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ โฌโฌ๐จโฌ๐ฉ
โฌโฌโฌ๐ฉโฌ โฌ๐จ๐ฉโฌ๐จ
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
โฌโฌ๐จ๐ฉโฌ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
๐จ๐จ๐จโฌโฌ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
Well! Thatโs one of my better Quordle results. An eliminator I donโt often use has turned out to be the 2R word and itโs given me 4R, which then gave me 1L. I did use another eliminator - DUSKY - and that gave me the final answer.