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, tricky…

Daily Octordle #1000
4️⃣🕚
🔟7️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
Score: 54

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <- eliminator
OCTAL 🎯
MICRO 🎯
CHIME 🎯
DOGMA 🎯
CLUCK 🎯
VAULT 🎯 could have been “fault”
BARON 💣 but it did give me the B for 1R
RAZOR 🎯
BYLAW 🎯 quite a challenge


Daily Octordle #1000
MICRO 4️⃣🕚 BYLAW
RAZOR 🔟7️⃣ CLUCK
CHIME 5️⃣6️⃣ DOGMA
VAULT 8️⃣3️⃣ OCTAL
Score: 54

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Wordle 1,219 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Three all round. We all deserve slices of cake and lots of champagne.

🍰‌🍰‌🍰‌ 🥂‌ 🥂‌

Spoiler

Wordle 1,219 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 TRACE
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 SHINY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 DICEY

It couldn’t be anything else.

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fixed it for you 😁

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

made a rookie error at 3, got it in 4 (which I am happy with considering the solution)

Wordle 1,220 4/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,220 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

I had s_o_n and my first thought was spoon, pity I didn't go with it. Second thought was sworn or scorn & I went with scorn.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1001
8️⃣🔟
4️⃣🕚
5️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Score: 54

This flowed easily and quickly almost all the way through.

It did amuse me (small things amuse me) on #8

Spoiler

I had letters i,o,n, t with the N & T in place and immediately thought-ondit, which the system told me is not a word. I know it is, but at least that saved me a mistake and it was easy to guess the other alternative.

I was lucky at #1. The other day, I got caught out with vaunt I think it was. So today I thought-won't be that word again, I'll go for taunt, it would be just like them to repeat a letter. As I was pushing  play I thought-oh no, daunt. But taunt it was.😁

But after that, I was faced with a dilemma for #2 and #4.
price/prime/prize/pride
click/flick/cliff

I was a bit annoyed that so many common letters were still in play but I guess that is why I got through the first lot of words easily today-because they had exposed more of the already used letters.
Time for an eliminator and I used fumed. It did the job.😀

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1001
3️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
🔟6️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
SOUND <-eliminator
TAUNT 🎯
PRIDE 🎯 could have been bride
SPORT 🎯
SNIPE 🎯
INGOT 🎯
GRAIL 🎯
FLICK 🎯
HORSE 🎯 could have been worse or morse

Daily Octordle #1001
TAUNT 3️⃣4️⃣ PRIDE
SPORT 5️⃣9️⃣ FLICK
HORSE 🔟6️⃣ SNIPE
GRAIL 8️⃣7️⃣ INGOT
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,220 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Nothing with my starter!

My eliminator narrowed it down to 5 possibilities at most.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,220 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 LOGIN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SPOON

It could have been shown, swoon, jupon, known. I discarded jupon as very unlikely, and went with my gut. 

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

I had little to go on after 2, so I chose a word with a couple more vowels.   Got it in 3 (surprised myself).

Wordle 1,221 3/6

🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,221 2/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Didn't have much to go on either after my first turn. 

Just brilliant, I guess.🤣

Spoiler

It's funny, but after my first turn, I thought.... Let's hope I get a few hints next turn. You never know, if I got lucky it might even be the whole word.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1002
7️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
🔟🕚
9️⃣5️⃣
Score: 59

Spoiler

Made a mistake at turn 4 (since instead of singe) .
If you solve #4 fairly early, it is a great help, but honestly that word needs to be given a rest.