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]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Spoiler

Then I looked at 3R. Canny? But I saw 4L looking very obviously sauna-like, so I solved that one first. I’m glad I did; there were no Ns in 3R! Misstep avoided: it was cabby. (I use the spelling “cabbie” so this was a narrow escape for me.)

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I fell into the trap. Not with canny, as N had already been covered. 

But I went for caddy.

Like you, I would have thought cabbie, not cabby.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

I see it, but I don't believe it.

Tried a starter that I thought might yield one or two letters, but got 4!

Wordle 1,105 2/6

🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

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@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

I see it, but I don't believe it.

Tried a starter that I thought might yield one or two letters, but got 4!

Wordle 1,105 2/6

🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Congratulations.  Wonderful result. I have only ever managed to solve in 2 a handful of times. Maybe once in a blue moon.

Today was a white moon day, I am afraid.😁

Wordle 1,105 5/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I must say I was a bit surprised by the answer, as I had a lot of possibilities in mind after my first 2 turns & out of them all, I thought the eventual answer was more one of the more unlikely ones.

Spoiler

I had grove, grope, prove, drove, evoke, broke, erode, probe and so on in mind.
So for #3 word, I went with prove as it at least covered p, r and v.
Next i went with grove.
I thought drove, being a past tense word, was more unlikely.
But then, I often get these choices wrong.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #886
🔟🕚
6️⃣🕛
3️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
Score: 61

I thought this puzzle had quite a few pitfalls in it, in that too much choice at times for different woords.

I found #5 & 8 pretty straightforward but had to chip away at a couple of others.

Oh well, got there eventually!

[springyzone]

I just did octordle sequence (which i got through, just) and I have to laugh.

The first word in it, I ended up in exactly the same spot as I did with today's wordle. At least i still had today's list in front of me to see possible answers, but boy, I worked through a  few before I hit on the right one. 

At least it covered nearly every letter by the end so the other squares weren't a challenge.😂

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,105 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Ah. I know what your starter must have been, k1ooo. Wordle is showering you with its approbation!

I used DOING as my indicator, which of course revealed all to me.

springyzone, hmmm… Your starter wouldn’t have given anywhere near enough information, and it would have been good luck if you had used a 2nd row eliminator that got you on track.

Spoiler

TRACE
DOING
DROVE    

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #886
3️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣🕚
6️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 53

As I approached the last word in my Octordle (2L), I had only two letters - one of which was a yellow. I felt that I had to play an eliminator, just to make it manageable.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOUGH

Daily Octordle #886
FORTE 3️⃣9️⃣ WAGER
VERVE 8️⃣🕚 CONDO
EXULT 6️⃣7️⃣ BETEL
LEGAL 5️⃣4️⃣ HORSE
Score: 53

(My second eliminator was PINKY.)

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #886
🔟🕚
6️⃣🕛
3️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
Score: 61

I thought this puzzle had quite a few pitfalls in it, in that too much choice at times for different woords.

I found #5 & 8 pretty straightforward but had to chip away at a couple of others.

Oh well, got there eventually!

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Yes, too many possible choices! 

[countessalmirena]

My starter for Dordle was different.

Daily Dordle 0886 3&4/7
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

Spoiler

SPOIL
DEATH
SHIED 🎯
FEAST 🎯

Daily Dordle 0886 3&4/7
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ||`SPOIL`||
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ ||`DEATH`||
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ||`SHIED`||
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ||`FEAST`||
<https://zaratustra.itch.io/dordle>

[countessalmirena]

I’m very pleased with my Quordle result. A 6 is good.

Daily Quordle 886
6️⃣4️⃣
2️⃣3️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨⬜🟩⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

LOGIN
… then bam! First unravelling!

  SCENE 6️⃣ 4️⃣ PRIMO
MOGUL 2️⃣ 3️⃣ OPIUM

I did need an eliminator at row 5… CADET … but that’s fine.