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 🤣

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New phone syndrome… yes, I can only sympathise.

Today’s Wordle…

Wordle 1,203 3/6

🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

TRACE gave me T___E.
NOILY <- eliminator
TITLE 🎯

Wordle 1,203 3/6

🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩 TRACE
⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛ NOILY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TITLE

It could have been TUILE but I considered that unlikely.

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Some lucky moments in Octordle…

Daily Octordle #984
7️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
2️⃣6️⃣
🔟3️⃣
Score: 50

Spoiler

TRACE
CRAFT 🎯
ARGUE 🎯
LOGIN <- I played this without thinking. What a waste of an eliminator. I didn’t deserve my luck. Shame shame shame.
AROSE 🎯
LOOPY 🎯
SLURP 🎯
BOUGH 🎯 lucky; could have been “dough”
LOVER 🎯 50/50 - could have been “lower”
STEAM 🎯 lucky; could have been “steak” or “stead”

Daily Octordle #984
SLURP 7️⃣9️⃣ LOVER
BOUGH 8️⃣5️⃣ AROSE
CRAFT 2️⃣6️⃣ LOOPY
STEAM 🔟3️⃣ ARGUE
Score: 50

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Daily Octordle #985
4️⃣2️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
Score: 44

Yes!!!!!!!!

I was sitting next to mum as I did this, explaining which word could be “in” as we went through each panel. She looked a little worried that I was going to make her solve the next one. ❤️

Spoiler

TRACE
PRICE 🎯
PLATE 🎯
TREND 🎯
FETID 🎯 could have been sited
FORGE 🎯
STAGE 🎯
FUSSY 🎯
NATAL 🎯

This was beautiful to behold.

Daily Octordle #985
TREND 4️⃣2️⃣ PRICE
NATAL 9️⃣5️⃣ FETID
FUSSY 8️⃣6️⃣ FORGE
STAGE 7️⃣3️⃣ PLATE
Score: 44

My beautiful mum says hello to everyone here. 

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Wordle 1,204 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This was a thoroughly fine 3-row victory.

Spoiler

TRACE
MOUND <-eliminator
MINER 🎯

I couldn’t see any other word candidate. Victory is mine!

Wordle 1,204 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 TRACE
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛ MOUND
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MINER

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Today’s Wordle gave me a shape-idea as soon as I’d played my starter. As a result, I played a guess as an eliminator, which left me with 5 possible answers. One of these I’d seen more recently so I avoided it. Two I’ve not seen appear in Wordle games so I made an assumption that they weren’t in Wordle’s dictionary.

Wordle 1,205 3/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,205 3/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨 TRACE
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩 LASER <-eliminator/guess
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LAGER 🎯

It could have been layer (seen recently-ish), lamer, laver (never seen in Wordle), laker (never seen in Wordle)… so my choice came down to two possibilities.

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Daily Octordle #986
3️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣🕚
9️⃣5️⃣
Score: 53

One wrong guess at the end resulted from the word bring one of those “could be anything” type of words with regard to its first (or third) letter.

Spoiler

TRACE
SLIMY <-eliminator
INLAY 🎯
SLICK 🎯
CRYPT 🎯
POLYP 🎯
TOAST 🎯
SENSE 🎯
MAKER 🎯
HOVER 💩💣
ROVER 🎯

Daily Octordle #986
INLAY 3️⃣6️⃣ POLYP
SENSE 8️⃣4️⃣ SLICK
TOAST 7️⃣🕚 ROVER
MAKER 9️⃣5️⃣ CRYPT
Score: 53

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I had the same choices after 2, so I asked Tricia and she immediately said the solution.

Wordle 1,205 3/6

🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜🟩⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Tricia knows her stuff!

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Wordle 1,206 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Straightforward - an easy 3.

Spoiler

TRACE
GHOUL<- eliminator 
FLOUR 🎯

Wordle 1,206 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ TRACE
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨 GHOUL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FLOUR

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Ah. This was a little trickier than it first appeared.

Daily Octordle #987
🔟5️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
GHOUL <- eliminator
CROUP 🎯
UNCLE 🎯
VAUNT 🎯 could have been “daunt”
LEASE 🎯
SCRAM 🎯
AMBLE 🎯
SEIZE 🎯
IDYLL 🎯


Daily Octordle #987
IDYLL 🔟5️⃣ VAUNT
LEASE 6️⃣7️⃣ SCRAM
AMBLE 8️⃣9️⃣ SEIZE
CROUP 3️⃣4️⃣ UNCLE
Score: 52