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 didn’t like this Octordle. It felt disjointed and gluggy.

Daily Octordle #1013
🔟5️⃣
2️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
Score: 50

I did guess two words without playing an eliminator, but I was taking a risk both times. After that - eliminator needed.

Oh - and US spelling left a bad taste in my mouth.

Spoiler

TRACE
TRUCK 🎯 could have been “trick”
SHARK 🎯 could have been “spark” or “snark”
DOILY <- eliminator
WORRY 🎯
WITTY 🎯
TEDDY 🎯
NOISY 🎯
LEAVE 🎯
MOLDY 🎯 US spelling 

Too many double-letter words. It just didn’t feel satisfying.

Daily Octordle #1013
MOLDY 🔟5️⃣ WORRY
TRUCK 2️⃣9️⃣ LEAVE
TEDDY 7️⃣6️⃣ WITTY
NOISY 8️⃣3️⃣ SHARK
Score: 50

[springyzone]

You're up at the crack of dawn, countess. I thought I might be first in here!

Wordle 1,232 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

After my second turn, I had a suspicion that the yellow would be the second letter and I could only think of 2 words that would fit. There may be others, but anyway, I went with my first thought and it was wrong.

Spoiler

snowy

[springyzone]

I had better luck guessing in octordle.

Daily Octordle #1013
8️⃣🔟
5️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣🕚
3️⃣4️⃣
Score: 57

Spoiler

After my 3rd turn,  #8 seemed a logical next word, but was it shark, shard or maybe sharp? PS Now I think about it, it could have been shack, so I really was lucky.
At that point I was almost going to try another eliminator.
Shark appealed to me though and I tried it and got lucky. Then the rest fell into place.
#1 took me a while to twig though. American spelling.

[springyzone · Accepted solution]

Hey countess and K1ooo, I just had a look at octordle and decided to play the lot, the sequence, then the chill and then I thought-dare I try the 'extreme', which is listed as challenging yourself with more unusual words.

It felt a bit intimidating actually but I had no intention of sharing the results with anyone, so I felt I could afford to just go fast and a bit sloppy or use extra eliminators if i wanted.😁

Well, talk about surprised!

I will show you their definition of more unusual words!

Okay, I do not care at all for 'brung' but since when have any of these been considered unusual words? 

Fjord makes a reasonably regular appearance in normal octordle!

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

4 today

Wordle 1,233 4/6

⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,233 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I liked my eliminator word very much, although the bot wasn’t too keen.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,233 3/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛🟩 TRACE
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛ BLAND
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BLAZE

It could still have been “blame”. 

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,233 5/6

🟨🟩⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Not my luckiest effort.

Computer on a go slow today too, having to refresh all the time.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1014
🔟3️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

My brain is on slow mode - bad hayfever.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOUGH <- eliminator
CURIO 🎯
GLAZE 🎯could have been glade
VIGIL 🎯 could have been sigil
HUSKY 🎯 a stab in the dark
SNAKE 🎯
HEIST 🎯
EVERY 🎯
ENJOY 🎯


Daily Octordle #1014
ENJOY 🔟3️⃣ CURIO
EVERY 9️⃣5️⃣ VIGIL
SNAKE 7️⃣6️⃣ HUSKY
GLAZE 4️⃣8️⃣ HEIST
Score: 52

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

4 again

Wordle 1,234 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜

⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,234 3/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/until/vinyl