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]

This feels weirdly familiar.

Daily Octordle #1021
9️⃣8️⃣
🔟7️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

Am I hallucinating????

Spoiler

TRACE
SOILY <-eliminator
SOLID 🎯
FROST 🎯
FLUTE 🎯
OPINE 🎯
MEATY 🎯
HOIST 🎯 could have been joist
SWASH 🎯
ROWER 🎯 could have been bower, vower, wower (but unlikely)


Much of this seems very fresh in my memory from recent Octordles.

Daily Octordle #1021
SWASH 9️⃣8️⃣ HOIST
ROWER 🔟7️⃣ MEATY
FLUTE 5️⃣6️⃣ OPINE
FROST 4️⃣3️⃣ SOLID
Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,240 3/6

⬛⬛🟨🟩🟨
⬛🟨🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

I was lucky with the first guess. My instinct after it was to think the word was __ner pattern.
I tried diner, but knew it could be miner or finer. I thought other combinations unlikely. Should really have used an eliminator but once I saw the i had to go in first spot, I quickly typed in inner. 
I didn't even think of infer, so I was luckier than I realised today to get it in 3.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1021
6️⃣4️⃣
🕛🔟
7️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
Score: 59

Spoiler

I made a mistake on my 5th turn, I thought smash was the most likely answer for the first word. I actually thought of swash but I felt I had seen it recently and it was unlikely.
The rest I found fairly satisfying in that they were obvious but mostly needed one extra letter, which helped to whittle away at those unused letters.
But at the very end, I felt I needed an eliminator. I had 3 turns left, but was #3 cower, bower, rower? I supposed it could be wower but thought that unlikely. 
It was annoying to have to use an eliminator at that point (brick) but otherwise, knowing my luck, I could have missed out altogether.

PS Meaty seems to pop up a fair bit in these puzzles. They like that one.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

I'll let you guess today

[springyzone]

I have had a good day on the games but now I need to get moving, got some childminding coming up soon.

Wordle 1,241 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The second guess came to the rescue.

Daily Octordle #1022
🔟4️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

And this was very satisfying, although some of these words, probably half, are repeats. 

I was lucky in that guesses 3 & 4 wwere fairlt straightforward and obvious. Guess 5 for #8, it could

Spoiler

have been diner or index but I have a hazy feeling diner was out very recently so went with index. All the others didn't seem to have alternatives once I worked down the list. Anyway, happy dance today!

[countessalmirena · Accepted solution]

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@k1ooo-slr-sales wrote:

I'll let you guess today

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… er… hmm… 4?

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,241 3/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

We’ve seen this word several times, haven’t we?

Spoiler

Wordle 1,241 3/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ TRACE
🟨🟨🟨⬛🟨 COILS
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STOIC

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

4

Wordle 1,241 4/6

🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1022
5️⃣3️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🔟
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
LOUGH <- eliminator
HOUND 🎯
DRAWL 🎯
SWEAR 🎯 could have been wafer, waker, waver, waxer, rawer: luck.
SUITE 🎯
NYMPH 🎯
CYBER 🎯
OVINE 🎯
INDEX 🎯

Daily Octordle #1022
SWEAR 5️⃣3️⃣ HOUND
SUITE 6️⃣7️⃣ NYMPH
DRAWL 4️⃣8️⃣ CYBER
OVINE 9️⃣🔟 INDEX
Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,242 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

After my first 2 words, I could only think of flown or clown so it wasn't worth using another eliminator, just needed to go for it. The reason I chose flown was because I seemed to recall there was a C in yesterday's answer.( I was under the impression it had started with C but just looked up the earlier post and see it was stoic)

Anyway, got lucky today with the choice but could easily have taken 4.