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.
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.
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 ๐คฃ
Did one of your guesses rule out double L, or an L in 3rd position?
When I read this, I was scratching my head as this was yesterday's puzzle and I can't remember what all the answers were. But I usually jot down possibilities on a piece of paper so I have been sorting through those/ At first I thought it was apple. Apple must have been #1 at some stage as I have a tick next to it.
But then I looked at your solutions and I see it was wooly (yes, it looks terrible, I agree).
I have droll and folly written down on the same sheet as #1, but both are crossed out. I am not sure how I knew it was wooly, but I remember I did, or strongly suspected it anyway. I may also have eliminated the F, R or D by that stage as I notice I only solved #1 on the 10th turn. I wish there was some way to check my answers but I never took a screenshot. I am actually wondering more why I didn't have drool written there.
I have done today's and I found that a bit of a minefield. I got through it & a lot of the answers are the words that first occurred to me but the problem was the usual one in that there were several possibilities for almost everything.
I took a leap of faith for #1 as it is a word that has been out before, but there was another word I had down as a more remote possibility.
I used another eliminator on my 4th turn, just to clear things up a bit.
Oh, felonious fiddlers, this was such a frustrating Octordle!
There was scarcely any sort of on-flow; solving a word didnโt help much with other words. I had to guess the whole way, and inevitably got one wrong.
I was expecting to score much more badly. There was only one redeeming feature with this Octordle โ in that I could guess 2L immediately. It was all downhill from there.
TRACE ERECT ๐ฏ GHOUL <- eliminator SHALL ๐ฏ could have been โshawlโ SHARK ๐ฏ could have been โshardโ or โsharpโ STRAY ๐ฏ could have been satyr, straw, strap AFOOT ๐ฏ could haven been adopt MINUS ๐ฏ with only yellow S and green U, this one was quite a challenge ANNEX ๐ฏ could have been apnea DROWN ๐ฃ๐ฉ BROWN ๐ฏ
Daily Octordle #930 MINUS 8๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ SHARK ERECT 2๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ ANNEX AFOOT 7๏ธโฃ๐ BROWN SHALL 4๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ STRAY Score: 52
If Iโd used a starter such as SHOUT, I can see this would have gone much more smoothly. Luck of the draw.
TRACE ๐ญ๐ซ nothing SPIKY ๐๐ป Ah! Just as well I didnโt play GHOUL or LOGIN or BOING or DOUGH or FOUND; SPOIL would have been okay, ditto with SPINY SKIFF ๐ฏ
TRACE LOGIN <- eliminator RIGHT ๐ฏ PIANO ๐ฏ LYRIC ๐ฏ could have been โlucidโ FILET ๐ฏ LARVA ๐ฏ only possibility except for words ending in โsโ CLOVE ๐ฏ at last! Iโd been waiting for something to tell me whether it was clove or close ADMIN ๐ฏ ESTER ๐ฏ Iโd just ruled out โmeterโ
Daily Octordle #931 RIGHT 3๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ LARVA PIANO 4๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ CLOVE FILET 6๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ LYRIC ADMIN 9๏ธโฃ๐ ESTER Score: 52
I took 4 for wordle yesterday, from memory. I had to do it on the evil new phone as I wasn't home, had an early start at my son's (6.40am). And I am off later today to my daughter's so if I manage to get on tomorrow at all, it will be late.
As soon as I had had my first turn, a lot of words occurred to me, several of them finishing with INE or at least with E. The first one I thought of was spine, but I seem to recall that that was an answer a while back, or maybe it was just a word I had down as a possible answer. But in any case, it turned me off trying it, so I tried SHINE instead. Up popped a yellow H, plus I could see there was no E at the end. Solved.
I am surprised I got a score as low as I did as I made several mistakes. I think it must be because I solved The 4th one on my second turn. I had 4 letters, with 2 of them in place, so it wasn't a work of genius.
The rest of it, I felt like there were potential pitfalls on a few of them.
Turn 3 was my usual eliminator and that got me through fine to turn 6.
On turn 7, I tried BLUFF for #3. Wrong, but I immediately knew then what it had to be. Typical strategy to reuse a letter. But my wrong guess did show B as the starting letter for #1, which immediately cut down the list of possibilities I had listed. I was convinced it would be BIBLE. Wrong again. Got it next turn though.
After 10 turns, I still only had one letter (O) for #2. But at least I could see 2 spots in the middle where it couldn't be. That cut things down. I had my fingers crossed though that the answer would not be mommy.
