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 🤣

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,129 3/6

🟨⬛🟨🟨🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I was very tempted to try a solution at row 2; I’m glad I didn’t. I needed that eliminator.

Spoiler

TRACE
HOUND
CADET 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #910
9️⃣🔟
8️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

This was tricky.

I couldn’t see any other possibility for 3L, and 2R after that had only two answers that I could see. The alternative wasn’t as likely, though.

The whole thing felt risky and tentative.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN 
UNTIL 🎯

Daily Octordle #910
STOVE 9️⃣🔟 NAVAL
AGATE 8️⃣4️⃣ RERUN
UNTIL 3️⃣5️⃣ MINOR
THESE 6️⃣7️⃣ WIDTH
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

I can see why you made the guesses that you did, springyzone.  It really came down to … which group of letters will fit here and aren’t ruled out?

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,130 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout/frond (as it covered a few new letters plus took account of the green and gold I already had)/prong. Which so easily could have been-wrong! 😂

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #911
4️⃣7️⃣
🔟🕚
3️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
Score: 55

#5 seemed obvious and that gave me #1. Before that, I had had 3 possibilities in mind.

But there were a few here that just could not be totally solved, given what I knew.  I had to go with my best guess.

Spoiler

#4, wordy or dorky. No way to know for sure but I thought wordy more likely.

# I went for ample, it was apple, but the M helped me with #3 as I had been hovering between rotor/motor. I really, really wanted to try rotor but stopped myself, luckily.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,131 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I just managed to get this done before the clock struck twelve.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN
FORTE

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #911
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣🔟
8️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

I’d solved this a little earlier.

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <-eliminator
START 🎯
APPLE 🎯
etc

Daily Octordle #911
STEED 5️⃣6️⃣ COLON
MOTOR 7️⃣🔟 WORDY
BLEND 8️⃣9️⃣ PENNY
APPLE 4️⃣3️⃣ START
Score: 52

I’m glad I’d used SPOIL as my eliminator, so that I wasn’t lured into STEEP as a guess for 1L.

[springyzone]

Oh, my aching head. Feeling quite poorly today. I think a granddaughter has passed her bug onto me.

Wordle 1,132 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I was surprised to get it, I just tried out a word that used a few different letters plus the yellows elsewhere and it wa 'it'. Lucky. Have not tried octordle.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #913
4️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣🔟
8️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣🕚
Score: 60

Today I started with my usual two words and I could see the shape of a couple of words but there were alternative answers. I didn't want to just jump in. In the end I went for a 3rd eliminator and it solved almost everything, well worth it, although of course it pushed the score down.

Spoiler

For #7 I was suspecting guild or build though my fav was quill. For #1, henna or hyena. For # 5, I was almost certain it must be coach as I could not think of any other word.

3rd eliminator PRICY

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,132 2/6

⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Yes yes yes! A 2-rower!

Spoiler

TRACE
PORCH 🎯