WORDLE - anyone else trying the daily online word game?

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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 1,157 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I immediately suspected the shape of the word, and played an old eliminator accordingly.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOUIS <- eliminator 
METER 🎯

The shape which I suspected was __ter, and with less certainty _eter, so LOUIS would rule out the other vowels and also rule out ESTER. 

Admittedly it didn’t rule out quite a few other candidates such as ENTER, PETER, DETER, etc., and there’s no denying the element of luck.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #938
9️⃣🔟
4️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

I think we have a new word making its appearance…

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
AFTER 🎯 lucky as it could have been dater, water, hater, rater, etc 
BRAVO 🎯
ANGRY 🎯
CHARM 🎯
CHECK 🎯
ENNUI 🎯
HUMAN 🎯
WRIST 🎯

Daily Octordle #938
HUMAN 9️⃣🔟 WRIST
BRAVO 4️⃣3️⃣ AFTER
CHECK 7️⃣8️⃣ ENNUI
CHARM 6️⃣5️⃣ ANGRY
Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,157 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I suspected this would end in ER and the answer was the only thing I could think of, offhand. There probably were other possibilities but I was too tired to try to think of them all.

Daily Octordle #938
🕚8️⃣
🔟9️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 59

With this, I I pretty much had #2,5 & 7 worked out after turn 2, though 2 & 7 did have an alternative so i just went with another eliminator by turn 4. Anyway, got there and just under 60 so can't complain.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,158 4/6

🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/stale/feral/delay (with fingers crossed the answer was not belay)

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #939
🕛8️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣🔟
Score: 60

Spoiler

Kicking myself a little bit with this as right after my second turn, I wrote down boule as a possible word for #1 but thought it maybe a bit unlikely so left it and at the end, tried joule instead!
Probably would not have made a big difference to the score but even as I was hitting the enter tab for joule, I had a feeling....

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,158 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Ah - pattern suspected, in with an immediate guess/eliminator.

Spoiler

TRACE
BEGAN
DELAY 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #939
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
2️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🔟
Score: 51

I nearly did a stupid thing with my final word.

Spoiler

TRACE
CROAK 🎯
GUILD <- eliminator 
SLING 🎯 could have been bling or fling
BOULE 🎯
SKULL 🎯
CLASS 🎯 luck - could have been clasp
LASSO 🎯
ORDER 🎯
and here I almost came a cropper… I wanted to play “dwarf” but of course there’s no D (ruled out), and yet my mind kept thinking “dwarf dwarf dwarf”… Finally I took control of this insanity and played…
WHARF 🎯

Daily Octordle #939
BOULE 5️⃣6️⃣ SKULL
CLASS 7️⃣4️⃣ SLING
CROAK 2️⃣8️⃣ LASSO
ORDER 9️⃣🔟 WHARF
Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

A nasty tiresome headache has not gone away, so here I am, after 1 in the morning…

Daily Octordle #940
9️⃣🔟
2️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
Score: 49

I had a stroke of luck with my starter; it was just lying there, waiting for me.

Spoiler

TRACE
EXACT 🎯
EARTH 🎯
CHUTE 🎯
LINGO <- eliminator 
LORRY 🎯
BILGE 🎯
ARBOR 🎯
SONIC 🎯 could have been “ionic”
BROKE 🎯

An easy one - even though I felt frustrated after “chute” as I couldn’t get any further without an eliminator.

Daily Octordle #940
SONIC 9️⃣🔟 BROKE
EXACT 2️⃣6️⃣ LORRY
ARBOR 8️⃣7️⃣ BILGE
CHUTE 4️⃣3️⃣ EARTH
Score: 49

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,159 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I knew that the final letter would be from a very limited set; I needed an eliminator to hone in on that, as well as to rule in or out a few letters I had in mind for the rest of the word.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,159 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ TRACE
🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩 LOUGH <-eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MULCH 

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,159 4/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
🟨🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout/lurch/mulch (with fingers crossed it was not gulch)