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]

Oh, in the name of Johann Strauss and all of his kin!

Daily Octordle #953
6️⃣5️⃣
🔟4️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

The last word - wouldn’t you know it!!!!

TRACE
LOGIN <- eliminator
PERIL 🎯
MERGE 🎯 could have been “verge”
DRAMA 🎯
SPILL 🎯
STICK 🎯
SMOKE 🎯
SWEET 🎯 could have been “sheet”
WALTZ 🎯 What! Good old waltz again? One two three one two three one two three…

Daily Octordle #953
SPILL 6️⃣5️⃣ DRAMA
WALTZ 🔟4️⃣ MERGE
PERIL 3️⃣9️⃣ SWEET
SMOKE 8️⃣7️⃣ STICK
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,172 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Well, I was satisfied with that - but then saw you’d done it so beautifully in 2, springyzone!

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN <- eliminator

It was clearly _AINT… paint, saint, faint. I was lucky enough with my guess.

FAINT 🎯

Wordle 1,172 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ TRACE
⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 LOGIN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FAINT

(I think adding the layout of the tiles with the guess next to each row makes it as clear as possible.)

[countessalmirena]

Springyzone, you’ve outdone yourself today! 

I hope your nephew will be feeling better soon. Poor boy. It sounds upsetting.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

very happy with a 3 after a lean start.  Rather than try an eliminator I just went for it.  Fortune favours the brave.

Wordle 1,173 3/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,173 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My eliminator combined with starter could only yield one possibility.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,173 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 TRACE
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 LOGIN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STERN 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #954
4️⃣3️⃣
🕚7️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
Score: 53

One wrong letter on the last word.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN <-eliminator
GLOBE 🎯 could have been glove
SHRUG 🎯
ASCOT 🎯 
BASIS 🎯
SEVEN 🎯
RAMEN 🎯 “raven” was just ruled out
MOTEL 🎯
POKER 💣💩
POWER 🎯

Daily Octordle #954
SHRUG 4️⃣3️⃣ GLOBE
POWER 🕚7️⃣ SEVEN
MOTEL 9️⃣6️⃣ BASIS
RAMEN 8️⃣5️⃣ ASCOT
Score: 53

Bad luck with poker.

[springyzone]

I did wordle & octordle on phone yesterday while away.

I recall I got wordle in 3. I cannot for the life of me recall the actual word but I think it may have started with a green S and finished with a green L and I had a couple of other letters to play with, so the answer was obvious after 2 turns.

Octordle, I got about 63.

Today:

Wordle 1,174 4/6

⬛⬛🟨🟩🟩
⬛🟩⬛🟩⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

I had thought of widen but siren seemed more likely. Oh well, tomorrow is another day!

Daily Octordle #955
5️⃣4️⃣
🕛9️⃣
🕚7️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
Score: 62

Chose the wrong words in a couple of spots. Set me back!

[countessalmirena]

Today’s Octordle was one of the more challenging ones. I had a sense very early on that there would be tricksy bits of whimsical misdirection, so a couple of times I paused and avoided solving a word that seemed worth a guess, in order to try somehow to scrape more data from what was there.

Daily Octordle #955
6️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🔟
4️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
MOUND <- eliminator 
HUMID 🎯
NURSE 🎯
OTTER 🎯 I’d been tempted by this after my 2nd row (after the eliminator) but wasn’t sure - OTTER or OTHER? That’s why I hopped over to solve HUMID first.
SIXTH 🎯 yes, just like Octordle to use this.
BOSSY 🎯
KARMA 🎯
WREAK 🎯 I had to take the risk - could have been “freak”
VAPID 🎯 could have been “valid” but there we are - I just knew it was “vapid”; it fit the feel of this Octordle.

Strange to think I hadn’t played an L throughout today’s Octordle! I’d often use SPOIL or LOGIN or GHOUL as my eliminator, which would rule out “valid” anyway.

Daily Octordle #955
SIXTH 6️⃣3️⃣ HUMID
OTTER 5️⃣8️⃣ KARMA
WREAK 9️⃣🔟 VAPID
NURSE 4️⃣7️⃣ BOSSY
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

I made a wrong guess in today’s Wordle.

Wordle 1,174 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨🟨🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <-eliminator
DENIM 💣💩
WIDEN 🎯

Ah well. 

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

I made a wrong guess in today’s Wordle.

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😂Didn't we all! Never mind,  glad to see you're human. Today's another day.

Beware today's wordle. After my usual 2 turns, I had it narrowed down to 2 possibilities (that I could think of, anyway). I suspected it might be the tricky one but went for the more conventional word.  Wrong. 

Wordle 1,175 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩