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]

Daily Octordle #862
9️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣🔟
🕚3️⃣
Score: 59

I was happy enough with this.

Beware, American spelling in one of the answers.

I could figure out the probable shape of the word but didn't solve it till I realised that.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #862
4️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣🔟
Score: 52

Again, TRACE as my starter, and LOUGH as my 2nd row eliminator. I could start guessing 3L (3 possibilities, so I played one, and it was correct).

As a result, I had 1L in the bag. 2R followed without a protest, and consequently 2L was unveiled.

I’d known the shape of 4L ever since the 3rd row, but was hoping to narrow down the first letter. I now had it between two letters… I chose one possibility and it was correct. (There’s no doubt that luck plays an important part in Octordle.)

I could now solve 3R. Warning: US spelling.

1R was now screamingly obvious. I hadn’t paid much attention to it but had I done so, I could have solved it several moves earlier.

Ditto with the final word - 4R. It could really only be one word.

Spoiler

Daily Octordle #862
BLOAT 4️⃣9️⃣ CANAL
PLUMB 6️⃣5️⃣ CLAMP
BRICK 3️⃣8️⃣ FAVOR
FRANK 7️⃣🔟 USHER
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

We both gave warning of the US spelling…!

It tickles my funny bone to see that you solved 4R first while I left it to last. I am guessing that your eliminator contained its first, second and third letters (all yellow) and that your starter contained its fourth letter (green)?

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

We both gave warning of the US spelling…!

It tickles my funny bone to see that you solved 4R first while I left it to last. I am guessing that your eliminator contained its first, second and third letters (all yellow) and that your starter contained its fourth letter (green)?

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Correct. By turn 3, I had 4 of the letters so it was just a matter of moving them about to see what I could make.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,082 3/6

⬛🟩🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟨🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

So cccccold…

TRACE was my starter.

Spoiler

TRACE
BROAD
ORGAN

With the yellow A, it seemed likely that there would be an O before it; either that or a consonant. I decided to use BROAD as my eliminator.

As soon as I saw a yellow O, I knew what the solution must be.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #863
4️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣🔟
Score: 52

I thought I was stuck at 2L. In desperation I tried one of the possible words… and it was right. That was a relief.

After that, I could solve 4L abs then 2R.

4R had to be made from leftover letters.

Spoiler

TRACE starter
LINGO eliminator 
Daily Octordle #863
FLICK 4️⃣3️⃣ CLANG
MOVER 7️⃣9️⃣ SPEAR
ROUTE 6️⃣5️⃣ COACH
SHEET 8️⃣🔟 TODDY
Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,082 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Getting to the actual shape of the word took me a while

alien/shout/baron

Daily Octordle #863
🔟9️⃣
🕛5️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣🕐
Score: 65

Couple of wrong guesses set me back

clank/clang and mower/mover

But at least i got there. I wasn't sure I would. I could only think of toddy for #8 but I wasn't sure if there would be a different word in the wings there, too.😂

[countessalmirena]

Darkness … the early hours when my feet tingle from the warmth of my Polish goose down quilt… and tiredness combines with inability to sleep.

Wordle 1,083 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

TRACE was once again my starter. I immediately began suspecting a particular pattern, but deduced to do some ruling out.

Spoiler

TRACE
HOIST
ETHER

My suspicions fell on the yellow E. I thought it could well be that there’d be a _E_E_ pattern. I wondered whether either S or H might be involved, and wanted to get O and I established as either in or out.

When my HOIST eliminator revealed no O or I, ruled out the last position for T, and showed that H was in, I went for initial guess.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #864
9️⃣🔟
5️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

TRACE was my starter. I used LOUGH as my 2nd row eliminator.

I could start solving at 3L, and 4R was no trouble. 2L - easy. 4L and 3R followed without any hesitation.

2R  lacked only one letter, and that was easily filled. But now we come to 1L. That was a weird one - very weird! Warning: US colloquialism! I guessed it only after trying mental gymnastics, and was helped by knowing where one of the vowels was and where the other vowel must go.

And finally 1R… I had one vowel, one consonant. One of the few possibilities made more sense than the other, and it fit the pattern of Octordle’s “mindset”.

Spoiler

Daily Octordle #864
FELLA 9️⃣🔟 AMASS
TAROT 5️⃣8️⃣ NAVEL
CHURN 3️⃣7️⃣ LEAPT
STRAP 6️⃣4️⃣ NIGHT
Score: 52

[springyzone]

Away most of yesterday, did them on my phone, results in both nothing special I am afraid. 

Similar to today.

Wordle 1,084 4/6

⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟩🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

My very first instinct was felon but then I thought.. lemon, so i went with that. As it turns out, both were wrong but both would have resulted in the same score of 4 turns.

Daily Octordle #865
5️⃣🔟
9️⃣🕚
7️⃣3️⃣
🕛8️⃣
Score: 65

Spoiler

No stupid mistakes as such, but I did try cream in #5 as I thought that seemed a likely word.