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 1,143 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟨⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It’s daunting when the starter gives so little. My eliminator was a good choice, and there wasn’t any doubt about the answer after that.

Spoiler

TRACE
SOUND
ENSUE 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Jellied eel in a jar!

I had a 1 in 3 chance with the final word, and my first choice was unlucky. Grrrrr.

Daily Octordle #924
5️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣🕚
Score: 53

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <- eliminator
FRUIT 🎯
HAUTE 🎯
SANDY 🎯
BASAL 🎯
GOOEY 🎯
BALMY 🎯
WIDER 🎯 luck, because it could have been “rider” or “eider” or “wired”
WAKER 💩💣 wrong - bad luck
WAVER 🎯 at least I didn’t try “waxer”

Daily Octordle #924
SANDY 5️⃣6️⃣ BASAL
HAUTE 4️⃣7️⃣ GOOEY
BALMY 8️⃣9️⃣ WIDER
FRUIT 3️⃣🕚 WAVER
Score: 53

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena

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WIDER 🎯 luck, because it could have been “rider” or “eider” or “wired”
WAKER 💩💣 wrong - bad luck
WAVER 🎯 at least I didn’t try “waxer”

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These made me laugh, they bring back memories.

OMG I never thought of eider. I would have been beside myself if I had known there was yet another one!

And I recall thinking of the other two words but thinking (hoping) waxer was more unlikely.

In this game though, you never know, not for sure.

Wordle 1,144 2/6

🟩🟨🟨⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This gave me heaps of trouble. Heaps.

I looked at it and all I could think of was align. I could see it was wrong, absolutely not possible, but I couldn't get it out of my head.

I was sorely tempted to just go for a couple more eliminators because patience isn't always my virtue but I sat back and felt too embarrassed to, because after all, I had 4 of the letters. Plus the starting letter.

How hard can it be, I wondered. Took me about 5 minutes though.😩

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #925
5️⃣3️⃣
🕚4️⃣
🕛9️⃣
🔟6️⃣
Score: 60

I felt that I was going along okay for a while. But then about half way through, I felt I needed another eliminator.

Spoiler

I had grove and broke written down as possibilities for #6 and vigil or civil as likely for #3. Plus I thought #7 might be lefty but it seemed an odd sort of word for octordle.
So I used gravy as eliminator.
This is where I made a big mistake.  I was excited to see grove was cut out of the possibilities for #6 and immediately wrote in broke, which I should have seen was also not possible as gravy had shown there was no R. As soon as I saw the results, I knew what it had to be, but too late, should have been more careful!

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,144 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Oh, no … springyzone, if I’d seen your post, I would have known …

I ended up with a 3.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN
ANVIL 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #925
5️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣🔟
9️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <- eliminator
AFOUL 🎯
ALOUD 🎯
etc

Daily Octordle #925
PLUME 5️⃣3️⃣ AFOUL
VIGIL 7️⃣4️⃣ ALOUD
SURER 6️⃣🔟 BOOZE
LEFTY 9️⃣8️⃣ MAPLE
Score: 52


I loathe that “lefty” word and almost went for “felty”, but I remembered lefty being used before, so that is what I played. Disappointingly it was right.

SURER - It caused me a few moments of trying to force SUPER into being the answer (mentally), although I knew it wasn’t because the solution had no P.
 

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,145 3/6

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Although my eliminator didn’t give me any additional letters, it ruled out many solutions. It was enough for me to take a stab at it on row 3.

Spoiler

TRACE
CHINO
MACAW

I’d ruled out caulk, nacho, macho, magic, basic, antic, etc. Wacky and sumac and ducal and scuba were among those still in the running, as well as various plurals which I discounted. I just had to make a guess; it came down to dumb luck.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #926
🔟9️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
Score: 52

By the skin of my teeth… This Octordle had two major sneaky tricky moments.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN <- eliminator 
GLAND 🎯
BUGLE 🎯
BATCH 🎯
UTTER 🎯
ERUPT 🎯

… but then the sneaky tactics began.
Was it wiper, viper, riper, piper…? I just had to guess.

RIPER 🎯
THYME 🎯 but I almost played “theme”
SWORD 🎯

Daily Octordle #926
SWORD 🔟9️⃣ THYME
GLAND 3️⃣7️⃣ ERUPT
BUGLE 4️⃣8️⃣ RIPER
BATCH 5️⃣6️⃣ UTTER
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Quordle 926
4️⃣2️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜🟩🟩🟨
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟨⬜🟨 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

I’m very happy with this. I managed to solve 1R immediately, and needed just the one eliminator for the rest.

Spoiler

TRACE
PEACH 🎯
LOGIN <- eliminator
GONER 🎯
USHER 🎯
SWUNG 🎯

GONER  4️⃣2️⃣ PEACH
SWUNG 6️⃣5️⃣ USHER 

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0926 5&3/7
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

Grrr. It was a 50/50 for that LH word, and I was unlucky.

Spoiler

Daily Dordle 0926 5&3/7
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 🟨🟨⬜⬜🟨 ||`TRACE`||
⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ||`LOGIN`||
🟨🟨⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ||`ENTRY`||
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ||`MONEY`||
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ||`HONEY`||
<https://zaratustra.itch.io/dordle>