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]

Daily Quordle 959
3️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

Darn… nothing more than a 7.

Spoiler

Daily Quordle 959
3️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜🟩⬜🟨 TRACE
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ SPOIL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ CHIRP
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 THETA
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 FUNKY
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ MINUS
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 THETA

🟩⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ TRACE
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ SPOIL
⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ CHIRP
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ THETA
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜ FUNKY
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MINUS

[countessalmirena]

Today’s Wordle is a good 3-rower.

Wordle 1,179 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,179 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 TRACE
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 SPOIL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 REBEL 🎯

It could have been revel, or possibly beryl.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #960
7️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
🔟9️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
GHOUL <-eliminator
Daily Octordle #960
AMPLE 7️⃣8️⃣ SCALP
BULGE 3️⃣6️⃣ WACKY
CIRCA 🔟9️⃣ CEASE
BLOKE 4️⃣5️⃣ LANCE
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

It’s Wednesday, and Octordle was not easy. My starter gave me insufficient data and I knew I had to be cautious in choosing an eliminator. As it was, even though my eliminator illuminated two words in particular, I couldn’t see ahead further than row 5.

It was like driving in thick fog and hoping there’d be an illuminated turn sign soon.

Daily Octordle #961
3️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣🔟
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
BOING <-eliminator
BASIN 🎯 I was lucky with that “b”
BIOME 🎯 also knew this as a result of starter and eliminator
THIEF 🎯 … and this.
PRIDE 🎯 could have been prize or drive
DODGY 🎯 could have been godly
PRIVY 🎯
OUTGO 🎯 my head kept on suggesting “ought” (because it had to start with “o” and surely there must be a “u” as well) but it couldn’t be that (because of “g” position and with “h” ruled out); finally I snapped out of the fugue & worked it out
POUTY 🎯

Daily Octordle #961
  BASIN   3️⃣6️⃣ PRIDE
    THIEF  5️⃣9️⃣ OUTGO
   PRIVY  8️⃣4️⃣ BIOME
DODGY 7️⃣🔟 POUTY
Score: 52 

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,180 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩
🟨⬛⬛🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

No guesswork required: I had all of the letters, which is no challenge at all.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,180 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 TRACE
🟨⬛⬛🟨🟨 SPOIL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AISLE 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,181 3/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This was full of guesswork.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGS <-eliminator

Now this is where I disagree with that wretched bot. Only one possible remaining answer? Nonsense. It could have been frays, prays, brays, drams, prams, prads, wraps, draws, brass.

I eliminated plurals or 2nd person verb conjugations (ending in “s”) from consideration, because of the weird Wordle framework. We’re left with brass, just brass.

Wordle 1,181 3/6

⬛🟩🟩⬛⬛ TRACE
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 LINGS
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BRASS 🎯

Unsatisfying although logical, given the constraints.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #962
🔟8️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

This was all over the place! So many different letters had been dragged into this Octordle that it was like a quilt made out of a thousand different squares.

Spoiler

TRACE
SHINY <- eliminator
HASTE 🎯
WEARY 🎯
PROXY 🎯
SOBER 🎯
SPELL 🎯
LIBEL 🎯
OZONE 🎯
OFFER 🎯 could have been “odder”

But even though so many letters were in use, I did find that almost each correct solution was the only possible solution. I didn’t have multiple possibilities for each set of tiles, so although this felt tricky, it actually wasn’t.

Daily Octordle #962
OFFER 🔟8️⃣ LIBEL
WEARY 4️⃣3️⃣ HASTE
SPELL 7️⃣9️⃣ OZONE
SOBER 6️⃣5️⃣ PROXY
Score: 52 

[countessalmirena]

Ah. I had the old “What’s the first letter????”dilemma.

Luckily, I made the right choice, else this would have been a 4-rower.

Wordle 1,182 3/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,182 3/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ TRACE
🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛ SHINY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 _ARSH, obviously - but was it “marsh” or “harsh”? I decided on …

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HARSH 🎯

[countessalmirena]

I was able to guess a word on row 2, and again on row 3. After that, pffft - eliminator needed.

Daily Octordle #963
6️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣🔟
9️⃣2️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
Score: 50

Spoiler

TRACE
CREDO 🎯
CURIO 🎯
LINGS <- eliminator
FLARE 🎯 could have been blare
WINCE 🎯 could have been mince
AGLOW 🎯
SUSHI 🎯
MANLY 🎯 could have been banal or annal 
PIXEL 🎯 could have been libel but I think we’ve had that recently
 
Daily Octordle #963
WINCE 6️⃣7️⃣ AGLOW
CURIO 3️⃣🔟 PIXEL
MANLY 9️⃣2️⃣ CREDO
SUSHI 8️⃣5️⃣ FLARE
Score: 50

[countessalmirena · Accepted solution]

I’ve only achieved this score once before… I lucked out with the eliminator being the solution to one of the 8 panels, and managed to solve everything thereafter without another eliminator.

(It’s yesterday’s Octordle.)

Daily Octordle #964
6️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣2️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
Score: 44

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO 🎯
MANIC 🎯 could have been panic but I think that’s appeared recently 
PRIME 🎯
CUTIE 🎯
UMBRA 🎯
PROBE 🎯 I’d been leaving this as it was PRO_E and could have been prove, prose, probe until the appearance of “b”
SLUNG 🎯 I’d also been leaving this because it was clearly _ LUNG and thus either “flung” or “slung”; I had to take a guess
BLEAK 🎯 I’d also waited with this as it could have been “belay” or “bleak” or abled”; now the L’s position was known and I knew what it was.



Daily Octordle #964
UMBRA 6️⃣5️⃣ CUTIE
PROBE 7️⃣9️⃣ BLEAK
MANIC 3️⃣2️⃣ LINGO
SLUNG 8️⃣4️⃣ PRIME
Score: 44