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 1,165 3/6

⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

TRACE
DOING <- eliminator 
CROWN 🎯👑

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #946
3️⃣8️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
🔟6️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

That first word - I almost had it without an eliminator, but almost butters no parsnips.

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <-eliminator
TRIED 🎯
FRILL 🎯 - I ruled out “grill” because we’ve just had that.
DROSS 🎯
DECAL 🎯 - which used to appear regularly on Octordle
WINCE 🎯 luck - it could have been “mince”
USAGE 🎯
AGLOW 🎯
BELLY 🎯

Daily Octordle #946
TRIED 3️⃣8️⃣ USAGE
FRILL 4️⃣5️⃣ DROSS
BELLY 🔟6️⃣ DECAL
WINCE 7️⃣9️⃣ AGLOW
Score: 52

Not a difficult Octordle.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,166 4/6

⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

You'd think with 3 known letters, I would be home and hosed and it did help to at least know where the letters couldn't be, but it still left a lot of possibilities.

Spoiler

Alien/dirty/title/lithe

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #947
6️⃣8️⃣
🔟3️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣🕛
Score: 59

Spoiler

I made a mistake early on (turn 5) where I tried salad. It al least showed the second A as yellow so I knew then what the answer had to be, but damage done. At least it helped towards #7

[countessalmirena]

As the wild winds tormentedly buffet themselves, I’m Wordling.

Wordle 1,166 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I made the right eliminator choice.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN <- eliminator
LITHE 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #947
8️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣2️⃣
9️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣🔟
Score: 51

I waited until the end to solve 4R; it was another “what is that one letter?” problem.

The real surprise was that my eliminator was actually the answer to 2R. I then needed to play another eliminator as I still hadn’t enough information to make any confident guess about the remaining words.

Spoiler

TRACE
GHOUL <-eliminator 🎯
PINKY <-eliminator
PHOTO 🎯
GUMMY 🎯
GEESE 🎯
DENIM 🎯
SALSA 🎯 could have been “balsa”
AWFUL 🎯 wasn’t this used recently?
HITCH 🎯 ah well, I now knew that the first letter must be “h” as the only other possibility left was the female canine option

Daily Octordle #947
SALSA 8️⃣6️⃣ GEESE
GUMMY 5️⃣2️⃣ GHOUL
AWFUL 9️⃣4️⃣ PHOTO
DENIM 7️⃣🔟 HITCH
Score: 51

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

I got lucky using a word that I thought common in these words puzzles

Wordle 1,166 2/6

🟩⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Opener > LOUSE

[countessalmirena]

Octordle yielded its secrets to me very gracefully today.

Daily Octordle #948
🔟6️⃣
5️⃣2️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣4️⃣
Score: 51

Spoiler

TRACE
FORCE 🎯
DINGY <- eliminator
TAWNY 🎯
TIDAL 🎯
GNASH 🎯
SHOVE 🎯
KIOSK 🎯
MAUVE 🎯
HUMOR 🎯

Daily Octordle #948
HUMOR 🔟6️⃣ GNASH
TIDAL 5️⃣2️⃣ FORCE
KIOSK 8️⃣7️⃣ SHOVE
MAUVE 9️⃣4️⃣ TAWNY
Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Terrible start to today’s Wordle.

Wordle 1,167 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

But my eliminator was an excellent one. I could only see three possible answers as a result of my 2nd row.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN <- eliminator

The shape of it had to be _ LUNK. It couldn’t be anything else. I was faced with “slunk” or “plunk” or “flunk”. “Slunk” was used recently, if I recall correctly. So…

FLUNK 🎯

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

HITCH 🎯 ah well, I now knew that the first letter must be “h” as the only other possibility left was the female canine option

I remember this well.🤣🤣

I was tormented till the end I think, or close to it, by what letter to start with but I had in my mind from the very start already eliminated the B option.😂