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 1,230 3/6

⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛
⬛🟨🟩🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien
Then I deviated to try pride as it had some useful letters in it (I especially like R) plus an e at the end.  It ended up being a lucky eliminator for me.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1011
🕚7️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
🔟5️⃣
2️⃣4️⃣
Score: 53

I was really happy with this today.

I was able to solve #7 on my second turn and after that, things went well till turn 9.

Spoiler

I tried weary for #5. It was a perfect fit. I already had green E & Y, plus I had the letters A & R. I thought I was set! Wrong! 

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1011
5️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
🔟4️⃣
6️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

A happy 52 with today’s Octordle for me…

Spoiler

TRACE
LOUGH <- eliminator
LATER 🎯
HEDGE 🎯
CEASE 🎯
ALIGN 🎯
DEITY 🎯
DUVET 🎯
BESET 🎯
REPAY 🎯

Daily Octordle #1011
CEASE 5️⃣7️⃣ DEITY
BESET 9️⃣8️⃣ DUVET
REPAY 🔟4️⃣ HEDGE
ALIGN 6️⃣3️⃣ LATER
Score: 52

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

back to 3 😒

Wordle 1,231 3/6

🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Just for something different, this was last night's dinner . . . Halloween pizza 💀 💀 💀 

 

[countessalmirena]

Nothing Halloweeny here… I keep promising myself a Stoker’s Dracula party, though.

Daily Octordle #1012
🔟8️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

A bit of an odd one, this. Twice I was faced with choices that would have added a row or two to my guesses; I guessed correctly out of luck.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOUGH <- Why didn’t I use GHOUL as the eliminator, given the Halloween just gone?
REALM 🎯
SHALE 🎯 could have been “whale”
EMBER 🎯 could have been “miner” or “mixer”
HASTE 🎯
DIGIT 🎯
SWING 🎯
DITTO 🎯
BROOK 🎯 

Daily Octordle #1012
BROOK 🔟8️⃣ SWING
EMBER 5️⃣9️⃣ DITTO
HASTE 6️⃣3️⃣ REALM
DIGIT 7️⃣4️⃣ SHALE
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,231 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My starter gave me only the one yellow, and I wanted to focus on two particular consonants as a rule-in-or-out as well as a vowel or two.

I was left with two possibilities after my eliminator.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,231 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE
🟩🟨🟨⬛⬛ SHINY
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SIXTH

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,231 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The yellow letter in my first turn was pivotal in solving this. If it couldn't go there, then the odds were it was probably in second place.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1012
🕚7️⃣
🔟9️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
Score: 57

I found it fairly easy going today, though I did use another eliminator at turn 6. Just  a random one  as I felt a bit blank. Luckily it cleared the way. No dilemmas over this word or that, most were clear cut.

Spoiler

fudgy

I felt as if octordle was a bit fresher than usual. Still some words we have seen before, but overall okay.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

after line 2, there could only be one answer

Wordle 1,232 3/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩🟨⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,232 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟨🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My eliminator made up for the appalling blank of my starter.

It’s not that there wasn’t another possible answer - but rather that I had just enough information to make my guess. But… well, 50/50 is not a bad guess platform!

Spoiler

Wordle 1,232 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE
🟩🟨🟩⬛⬛ SPOIL
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SNOOP

It could have been “swoop”.