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 #956
🔟🕚
9️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
Score: 58

Not too hard today. 

Right after turn 2, I strongly suspected what #4 would be but there was an alternative so I waited.  The answers all help other squares, so it runs smoothly. And no square with 2 dozen possibilities. You'll blitz it today.😁

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,175 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I felt sure that Wordle was doing the old “use it again” trick.

Spoiler

TRACE
GHOUL <- eliminator
RERUN 🎯 pattern might be RE_U_ or _ERU_ or _E_UR or _E_UE…

revue, rerun, redub, redux, rebus, demur, femur, serum, xerus… I eliminated xerus. I went with my gut feeling.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #956
🔟8️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

I heard a little voice saying “don’t be hasty” with 2R at row 2 (eliminator turn), and then solved another word first at 4R. That word ruled out my first solution for 2R and I knew what must be. As I don’t like the word’s current incarnation on social media, I left it while I solved other words first.

Spoiler

TRACE
GHOUL <- eliminator
GIRLY 🎯 *
HELLO 🎯
PEARL 🎯
TALON 🎯
ICILY 🎯
LIEGE 🎯
HATER 🎯 All right, time to solve this one. I’d known it wasn’t “earth” since row 3, when “girly” ruled out the R in 3rd position.
CLIMB 🎯

Daily Octordle #956
CLIMB 🔟8️⃣ LIEGE
ICILY 7️⃣9️⃣ HATER
HELLO 4️⃣6️⃣ TALON
PEARL 5️⃣3️⃣ GIRLY
Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,176 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

After my usual first 2 turns, I could only think of a couple of words and this seemed the most likely.

[springyzone]

Woohoo, a countess type of score.

Daily Octordle #957
4️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
🔟8️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

I was lucky in that after my first 2 turns, #8 & 1 didn't seem to have any alternatives except the answer.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,176 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My eliminator was ideal. There really wasn’t another possibility that I could see other than the answer as a result of the starter and eliminator.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,176 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 TRACE
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 LOGIN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 OWNER 

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #957
6️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣🔟
4️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

A satisfying result. I had a slightly wobbly start with 4R, hesitating between two possibilities, but thankfully I chose the correct letter - which popped up all over the place thereafter.

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <- indicator
CLONE 🎯 could have been “clove”
SANER 🎯
GRUEL 🎯
SHIRE 🎯
TOOTH 🎯
QUOTH 🎯
SKIER 🎯
TENTH 🎯

Daily Octordle #957
SHIRE 6️⃣8️⃣ QUOTH
TOOTH 7️⃣9️⃣ SKIER
GRUEL 5️⃣🔟 TENTH
SANER 4️⃣3️⃣ CLONE
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Snap! Ideal results for both you and me!

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,177 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout/pagan/drawn

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #958
7️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣🕚
🔟5️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
Score: 59

Spoiler

I knew as soon as I made a mistake on turn 4 (I tried threw instead of three, silly move as they seem to be on a numbers kick lately) that the score would not be ideal.
After turn 5 (to correct my mistake), I sat there for a minute or so as several squares seemed to have a couple of possibilities.
But once I got #3 correct, I found suddenly the way was clear and one word led to another.