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 🤣

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #940
3️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣🕚
9️⃣🔟
4️⃣5️⃣
Score: 56

Today's was easy enough as one answer led to another etc but it was all a bit stale.

The first one I solved was #1, but it was with a feeling of-I think it will be that word that makes regular appearances and sure enough, it was.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Dordle 0940 3&5/7
🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
zaratustra.itch.io/dordle

The left word was one of those where there is a plethora of possibilities for the first letter. The second was an interesting word - I wish I’d solved it in 4 but … ah well, 5 is perfectly acceptable.

Spoiler

Daily Dordle 0940 3&5/7
🟨🟩🟩⬜⬜ 🟩⬜⬜🟩⬜ ||`CATER`||
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ||`PLOWS`||
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ||`BATCH`||
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟨 ||`COZED`||
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ||`CODEX`||
<https://zaratustra.itch.io/dordle>

[countessalmirena]

I was on a roll with Quordle. I’m impressed by the combination of luck and some logic.

Daily Quordle 940
6️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

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

Look at it! 6! A 6-row victory!

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN <- eliminator

ALOFT 6️⃣5️⃣ SNUCK
LAPSE 4️⃣3️⃣ COMIC

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

maybe a 2 in Wordle on Thursday

[countessalmirena]

k1ooo, you must have the eerie gift of being able to deduce …

Wordle 1,160 2/6

🟨🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I couldn’t go much wrong. As far as I can see, there were no more than 3 possibilities.

Spoiler

TRACE
BRUTE 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #941
7️⃣🔟
8️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
2️⃣6️⃣
Score: 50

I’m more than happy with this result. It was a precarious ride and at times my guesses seem to have hit the spot with undeserved accuracy… but I did launch each guess logically, even the eliminator several guesses in.

Spoiler

TRACE
PLACE 🎯 could have been “space”, “peace” or “glacé” - lucky
ALTAR 🎯
BOUND <-eliminator (which revealed almost all of another word - but I left that word for now as the initial letter was wide open)
ANVIL 🎯
SNEER 🎯
BELOW 🎯
WINDY 🎯
HOUND 🎯 still could have been “found” or “mound” but it was time to guess - lucky
HOMER 🎯

Daily Octordle #941
BELOW 7️⃣🔟 HOMER
WINDY 8️⃣9️⃣ HOUND
ANVIL 5️⃣3️⃣ ALTAR
PLACE 2️⃣6️⃣ SNEER
Score: 50

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,161 3/6

⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,161 3/6

⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

I had 2 words in mind. leech or belch as I was pretty sure it had to end in CH. I figured belch might be too uncouth for them.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #942
9️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣🕚
🔟3️⃣
Score: 58

I am pretty satisfied with this. I did the best I could.

Spoiler

I did make a mistake on turn 5.
For word #2, I  had the letters A E C M.
All in yellow.
So I tried CREAM and double checked, no clashes.

But every letter yellow again.
It was not till after FEMUR that I had the E in place and could think of a guess. I am sure we have seen this word used some time recently, although I am starting to think that about a lot of the words.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,161 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

TRACE
BENCH <- eliminator & guess
LEECH 🎯

It’s an odd thing to realise that people would have died of blood loss in the very process of being leeches as a treatment.