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]

Wordle 1,224 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

After turn 2, I could think of a few possibles. grown, crown, drown, frown, brown, known
There might be others, but I was inclined to think there was probably a W in the answer.
So I felt as if I needed an eliminator. Mine was decaf. I would have preferred one that cut out 4 of the initial letters but I couldn't think of one. Anyhow, I got lucky and the F showed up.

But I could very easily have had to try a second eliminator as I was also considering cubed or cadge, it was the luck of the draw really.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1005
4️⃣6️⃣
🕚7️⃣
5️⃣🔟
8️⃣2️⃣
Score: 53

This looks better than usual but it is not really. I finished it at much the same spot I often do. The difference is I had enough after my first turn (4 letters, 2 of them green) to guess #8 on my second turn.

I wasn't as inspired after that and needed an eliminator for turn 3.😁

Spoiler

Towards the end, I couldn't figure out the last couple so needed another eliminator. I used judge.
Getting the D in those words suddenly enlightened me. Light bulb moment.

But I hesitated earlier on in the game, especially with #1, I thought-surely it couldn't be that word, it came out just recently I think. But then it was that word! Same with a few of the others-4,5 & 6. They have all been out in recent times or maybe I am getting myself muddled. It didn't feel 'fresh' anyway.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,224 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I am not doing what the answer says.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,224 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛ TRACE
⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ DOING
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FROWN

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1005
7️⃣6️⃣
🔟3️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

Hmm.

I felt a little uncertain throughout this. The score’s fine but the feeling was odd.

Spoiler

TRACE
BOING <- eliminator 
CYBER 🎯 It could have been cuber, I suppose
OVINE 🎯 could have been opine
UTTER 🎯 could have been peter or ester
NYMPH 🎯
SUITE 🎯 could have been quite
ELFIN 🎯
INDEX 🎯 could have been wined or dined
DRAWL 🎯

Daily Octordle #1005
SUITE 7️⃣6️⃣ NYMPH
DRAWL 🔟3️⃣ CYBER
OVINE 4️⃣9️⃣ INDEX
UTTER 5️⃣8️⃣ ELFIN
Score: 52

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

😐

Wordle 1,225 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜🟩🟩
⬜🟨🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,225 3/6

⬛🟩🟨⬛🟨
⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I played it smart with my eliminator, but let’s be honest; my starter had already narrowed things down.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,225 3/6

⬛🟩🟨⬛🟨 TRACE
⬛🟨🟨🟨⬛ MAWED
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WREAK 🎯

The letters most likely to be in front of the R and finishing the word were my target.

[springyzone]

I had to really work at wordle today and it still took me 5 turns.

But I did learn a new, useful word in the process. 😁

Wordle 1,225 5/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟩🟨
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

After turn 1, I thought, don't just go with shout (I don't always, I sometimes deviate from the norm), be more like countess. 
But being me, I resorted to writing down all the possibilities I could think of. I had more 'ea' pattern words than a-e pattern words.
My most commonly used letters were, in order, R T S

My first thought for eliminator therefore was STARE. Such a shame as it is the a-e pattern.
But then I typed in STEAR. It looked like it might be a word and I was delighted to find the system accepted it.
Turn 3 was another eliminator (frock), which knocked out all but one of the words I had thought of.
I was convinced I had it on turn 4, but as you can see, I had to go back for a rethink and second look at the remaining letters.

All in all, happy to have got it at all today.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1006
8️⃣7️⃣
🕚4️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
🔟2️⃣
Score: 56

Again, the under 60 score is only because I was able to solve a word at turn 2. Otherwise it took pretty much the same number of turns to solve the whole thing as I sometimes take.

I had to use an eliminator at turn 3 (pricy) and I used shout as eliminator further down.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1006
3️⃣6️⃣
🔟7️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

My eliminator was nearly one of the answers.

Spoiler

TRACE
SHINY <- eliminator

Daily Octordle #1006
HANDY 3️⃣6️⃣ OTHER
BREED 🔟7️⃣ OLDER
LODGE 8️⃣4️⃣ NORTH
WHINY 5️⃣9️⃣ ALONG
Score: 52

[kopenhagen5 · Accepted solution]

I got wordle in first go. 😁

It is my usual beginning word though.

Had to get it one of these days. 

So now I don't need to do wordle anymore, I have mastered it. 😄