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]

Daily Octordle #995
9️⃣🔟
6️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

Unsatisfying.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOUGH <-eliminator
CRASH 🎯
SMITH 🎯
CABLE 🎯 could have been “calve”
OMBRE 🎯
FACET 🎯 (had recently?)
FIGHT 🎯
IONIC 🎯
NANNY 🎯 yesterday we had “daddy”, today “nanny”…

Daily Octordle #995
IONIC 9️⃣🔟 NANNY
OMBRE 6️⃣3️⃣ CRASH
FACET 7️⃣4️⃣ SMITH
FIGHT 8️⃣5️⃣ CABLE
Score: 52 

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

UNBELIEVABLE !!!!!

I don't have set starters, I am a free spirit who chooses words that are relevant to the moment.

I almost fell out of bed when I got this in 2, mostly because of my reason for choosing the word in line 2.

Wordle 1,215 2/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

A DOUBLE UNBELIEVABLE!

Wordle 1,215 2/6

🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

We are united in excellence, k1ooo. But you did better than I, starting with less of a starter advantage.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,215 2/6

🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛ TRACE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 GRANT 🎯🎇🍾

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

back to a 3 for me

Wordle 1,216 3/6

⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I'll take that 😁

[springyzone]

I did it on my phone yesterday but I can't even remember how many turns it took. Must have been 3 or 4, that is my usual.
I would remember if it had been something amazing like two or if it had gone to the wire.

Today:

Wordle 1,216 4/6

🟨🟨⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout/leach
As the H was not in second place and not at the end, I figured it was possibly the first letter so went from there.

[springyzone]

Spoiler

Daily Octordle #997
4️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣🕛
3️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣🔟
Score: 56

Spoiler

The words flowed nicely in this, at least for a while. 😀. Didn't even have to ponder much.

I ran out of momentum though at turn 8 and used an eliminator which gave enough hint to solve #8.

Have to admit, in the past I would never have got this word but it has been out a few times now so is an old friend.

Then I made a mistake on #4, tried wiper instead of piper.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #996
4️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣🕚
6️⃣8️⃣
Score: 53

I bombed out with the final word; it was a logical but wrong guess.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN <-eliminator
LADEN 🎯
GUSTY 🎯 but we’ve just had this!
FUGUE 🎯
MOLDY 🎯 and we’ve just had this too!
WORDY 🎯
WORRY 🎯
SHAWL 🎯
PAVER 💣
BAKER 🎯

Daily Octordle #996
GUSTY 4️⃣5️⃣ FUGUE
LADEN 3️⃣9️⃣ SHAWL
WORDY 7️⃣🕚 BAKER
MOLDY 6️⃣8️⃣ WORRY
Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #997
6️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣🕚
7️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
Score: 53

Wrong guess for the last word.

Spoiler

TRACE
SHINY <- eliminator
ROAST 🎯
NYLON 🎯
EVENT 🎯
SUAVE 🎯
STILL 🎯
VIRUS 🎯
GOLEM 🎯
WIPER 💣
PIPER 🎯

Daily Octordle #997
SUAVE 6️⃣5️⃣ EVENT
NYLON 4️⃣🕚 PIPER
STILL 7️⃣8️⃣ VIRUS
ROAST 3️⃣9️⃣ GOLEM
Score: 53

Daily Octordle #998
7️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣🔟
6️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

This one felt very satisfying.

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL
MOLAR 🎯
… and off we went!

Daily Octordle #998
WIDEN 7️⃣4️⃣ HOMER
VALID 5️⃣🔟 AFFIX
STASH 6️⃣3️⃣ MOLAR
SEWER 8️⃣9️⃣ GECKO
Score: 52

[springyzone]

Ha! I thought I might be first on today but you trumped me, as you were up in the wee hours. Hope you are okay. I am currently in the habit of going to bed super early, really tired out, then waking up just after 4am. I guess I have had my 7 hours or so, so can't complain.

Wordle 1,217 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨
🟩⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Today I almost recklessly had a guess at turn 2 but then I thought no, and I am glad I did follow the usual course as the second turn solved it and it was nothing like my guess would have been.

Spoiler

If i recall correctly, I was thinking along the lines of brink, bring, briny etc

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #998
5️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣🕛
3️⃣🔟
7️⃣🕚
Score: 63

I found this slower going than yesterday's.

On turn 4, I felt I had a reasonable chance at #2 but it was wrong.

Spoiler

hover

I then thought-you're kidding me, what else could it be? Then saw there were a couple of possibilities so left it.

By turn 8, I had again run out of oomph and used an eliminator

Spoiler

bumpy, which I was very pleased with actually as it covered B M P Y. Small things make me happy.🤣

It solved #2 & 6 anyway.

Took a while till #4 clicked. Not sure why. It is a regular. There weren't that many letters left by then so eventually it sank in.