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 1,147 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩🟩
⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Oh-ho-ho!

I couldn’t have missed the answer after row 2.

Spoiler

TRACE
SOUND
OUNCE 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #928
7️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣🔟
4️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

The trickiness continues. So many little traps…

Spoiler

TRACE
FOUND <- eliminator

Daily Octordle #928
APPLE 7️⃣6️⃣ START
CRISP 5️⃣🔟 GUAVA
REFIT 4️⃣9️⃣ PLAZA
COULD 3️⃣8️⃣ ALIBI
Score: 52

2L might have been CRIMP. 
1R might have SMART.
1L might have been AMPLE.
4R might have been AXIAL.
Those were all gut feeling aka luck.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #928
6️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
🕚🔟
4️⃣2️⃣
Score: 55

I am getting a bit tired of #5, he and his family seem to call in too often lately.

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I know what you mean… and yes, that’s a frequent offender.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

I used the letter from line 1 as the first letter in line 2.

Happy to have solved this in 3 lines considering there were many possibilities after line 2.

Wordle 1,148 3/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

Took me forever to solve wordle today.

Wordle 1,148 5/6

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟨🟩⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I had a feeling the second word would be a washout but I felt I had to double check as I have been caught before.

Spoiler

alien/shout/fiery/midge(which was by way of being an eliminator)/medic

[springyzone]

I had a bit more luck with Octordle.

Daily Octordle #929
🔟🕚
7️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
Score: 58

After my first 2 turns, the probable answer to #6 was obvious. 

But for #2, I had a long list of possibilities.

Spoiler

I used another eliminator at about turn 5 (grump) and I am glad I did as I had had #8 tagged as probably being FIRST, so I was surprised to see no R highlighted from grump, but lo and behold, an M.

By the end, every single answer I had been thinking of for #2 had been ruled out and I couldn't think what it could be till I thought... ah, must be a letter that I already have in the word.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,148 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
🟨🟩⬛🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I wish I’d gone with my gut feeling. I sort-of suspected the actual solution but tried an eliminator instead of going for the word itself.

Spoiler

TRACE
DENIM <-eliminator
MEDIC

[countessalmirena]

I was not happy with the top left (1L) word - not one little bit. That is not how we spell that particular word.

US spelling. I tweak its nose and stomp on it.

Daily Octordle #929
🕚3️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
Score: 53

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN <-eliminator
ELATE 🎯 could have been plate, slate, stale, but I know Octordle’s sneaky ways.
GAUNT 🎯
BATON 🎯
SCENE 🎯
BLUSH 🎯 - fortunately I’d left this one until after “scene”, otherwise I’d probably have tried “bluff.
MIDST 🎯
PINCH 🎯 - luck; it could have been winch, cinch, finch.
JOLLY 💩💣 - I’d hovered between “folly” and “jolly”, but it now transpired there was no double L, and the only possibility was the terrible “wooly” with only one L. Ugh. That’s no’ how yü spell woolly!
WOOLY 🎯 - Wrong wrong wrong, even though it’s right.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

I had a bit more luck with Octordle.

Daily Octordle #929
🔟🕚
7️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
Score: 58

After my first 2 turns, the probable answer to #6 was obvious. 

But for #2, I had a long list of possibilities.

Spoiler

I used another eliminator at about turn 5 (grump) and I am glad I did as I had had #8 tagged as probably being FIRST, so I was surprised to see no R highlighted from grump, but lo and behold, an M.

By the end, every single answer I had been thinking of for #2 had been ruled out and I couldn't think what it could be till I thought... ah, must be a letter that I already have in the word.

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Springy, how did you avoid the 1L trap? (Your #1?)

Spoiler

Did one of your guesses rule out double L, or an L in 3rd position? 

[countessalmirena]

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@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

I used the letter from line 1 as the first letter in line 2.

Happy to have solved this in 3 lines considering there were many possibilities after line 2.

Wordle 1,148 3/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Good solving. I think you must have had the shape of it solved in your head before you tried the word itself. That can be part of the gut feeling.