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]

🧩👑🍾🥂🎇🥇

I suppose the question is… can you do it again? 🙂

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

 

I did that some time back with SAUTE

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

Happy with 4, could have been six

Wordle 1,226 4/6

⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

I've never managed it in one, as far as I can recall.

I usually start with alien but today I got all experimental and found aline is a word too.

I tried it as it is all the same letters but ends in E which I think is a more likely place for E than 4th spot.

On the other hand, I think alien is a lot more likely to be an actual answer than aline.

So I don't know, 6 of one, half a dozen of the other, I guess.

I used to sometimes start with radio, can't recall second word I put with it, probably something like guest.

But at the very start of wordle, my word of choice was ocean.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,226 3/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Started with aline rather than alien.
You can imagine my chagrin to see N pop up as yellow.
That N just better not be at the end, I said to myself.😂

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1007
9️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣🔟
🕚🕛
3️⃣6️⃣
Score: 64

Spoiler

I started off okay with solving a word at turn 3, but at turn 4 I made a stupid mistake on #4.
I saw letters A E H and thought-cheap!
Which I rushed to try. Then realised after it that I already had H as yellow in that spot. 
Reminded myself (for the 1000th time) to check before pressing enter.

On almost all the squares soon after that, I had  things pegged down to 2 possibilities
So needed another eliminator.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,226 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

With only a yellow to help, I needed a good result with an eliminator. Luckily, that’s exactly what I received.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,226 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ TRACE
🟩⬛⬛🟨🟩 SHINY -> eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Sandy

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1007
7️⃣2️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
🔟9️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
Score: 50

Second row was solved without eliminator. That gave me enough to solve the third row as well, and it was only then that I needed an eliminator.

Spoiler

TRACE
PLACE 🎯 __ACE (1R) could have been space or peace, but “place” would help to rule out words for 2R (_{E}AC_ as well
BEACH 🎯 “peach” and “leach” were ruled out
DINGO <- eliminator
GRIND 🎯
TOXIN 🎯
DOPEY 🎯
WISPY 🎯
FLOSS 🎯
STORM 🎯

Daily Octordle #1007
DOPEY 7️⃣2️⃣ PLACE
GRIND 5️⃣3️⃣ BEACH
STORM 🔟9️⃣ FLOSS
TOXIN 6️⃣8️⃣ WISPY
Score: 50

[countessalmirena]

Oh, luck was with me today. Not with my starter, I hasten to add, but in guessing from my eliminator I did beat the odds. It was at least a one in nine chance.

Wordle 1,227 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟨🟩⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,227 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ TRACE
🟨🟩⬛⬛🟩 DAILY <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BAWDY 🎯

It could have been bandy, handy, sandy, sadly, badly, faddy, paddy, waddy…

I ruled out faddy and waddy. I thought paddy was unlikely. That still left six… and I went with my gut instinct.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1008
8️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣4️⃣
🔟5️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

More luck here - but it was logic that solved most of it.

Spoiler

TRACE
GHOUL <- eliminator 
TOWER 🎯 yes, logic solved this 
HOLLY 🎯 yes, I claim logic here
SALLY 🎯 yes, logical solution
TRUST 🎯 could have been truss
LUNGE 🎯 yes, logic solved this
CAMEO 🎯 pure logic
DRIED 🎯 could have been fried, pried, breed, freed
ENSUE 🎯 “I” is now ruled out so it can’t be “issue”, logical solution

Daily Octordle #1008
CAMEO 8️⃣3️⃣ TOWER
DRIED 9️⃣4️⃣ HOLLY
ENSUE 🔟5️⃣ SALLY
TRUST 6️⃣7️⃣ LUNGE
Score: 52