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]

Daily Octordle #1023
7️⃣🔟
9️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣🕚
5️⃣6️⃣
Score: 59

The hardest part for me today was getting started.

Even after 2 turns, I couldn't get a clear idea of any definite answers.

In particular, #4 frustrated me as I could not think of any answers at all, given the positions of the yellows.

Then I had a thought, probably because it is a word that has been out before, a few times.

Spoiler

I needed another eliminator at turn 4. Fudge
And as I was going through, I looked at one spot and thought-grime.
Then I thought, no, hold on, it could be gripe. Let it go, work on others, maybe somewhere along the way I'll use M or P, and I will know.
Then as I got towards the end I realised, hang on, #2 and #3 look identical, maybe both answers are right.
Oh happy day.😂

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,242 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I thought I’d bombed after my starter. Nothing but black!

But my eliminator was extremely helpful.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,242 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩 LOGIN
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FLOWN

It could have been blown, pylon, nylon… and I was hovering up to the moment I hit enter.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1023
8️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣🔟
Score: 52

Only one word gave me some difficulty.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN <- eliminator 
GRIME 🎯
GRIPE 🎯
CRAMP 🎯
LEECH 🎯
GROWL 🎯
BEGAT 🎯
VINYL 🎯 could have been idyll
FILER 🎯

Daily Octordle #1023
BEGAT 8️⃣4️⃣ GRIPE
GRIME 3️⃣9️⃣ VINYL
LEECH 6️⃣5️⃣ CRAMP
GROWL 7️⃣🔟 FILER
Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,244 6/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛🟨🟨
⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I was lucky to get this one at all, I'd used more eliminators than you could poke a stick at. Even at the end I was not sure.

I had one word stuck in my mind towards the end but I could see it didn't fit, was impossible, but I thought one of the letters in it was probably likely.

Spoiler

I had the word vulva in my head.
I started alien/shout/mural (which I thought was in with a good chance, although I think something similar was out a few weeks back, not sure?)/fudgy, which was a waste in a way as I knew U could not go in that spot but I was at a loss and it tested F D G Y/baulk (kicking myself for not thinking of it sooner as I was sure it must be caulk or baulk by this stage, but nope.

This meant the pattern therefore had to be __ULA but I was fairly sure it was not a double consonant start, so one of the vowels would need to be reused and go in first spot. Could only be U.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1025
7️⃣🕚
🕛5️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
Score: 59

This was fairly smooth today although I did use a couple of extra eliminators on my way down

Spoiler

fudgy and wimpy. Wimpy was mostly to help me with #2 I think it was-wound, pound, mound. I had already been able to cross out bound as bingo was an earlier answer.

[countessalmirena]

I forgot to post yesterday’s Octordle.

Daily Octordle #1024
7️⃣🕚
3️⃣8️⃣
🔟4️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
Score: 54

Wrong guess, disappointed in myself but I shouldn’t be. Part of it is almost always luck.

Spoiler

TRACE 
BOUGH <- eliminator
CHOKE 🎯 could have been chose 
TIGHT 🎯
BATCH 🎯
CAIRN 🎯
KOALA 🎯
VALUE 🎯
SKIMP 💣💩
SKIFF 🎯

Daily Octordle #1024
KOALA 7️⃣🕚 MUSHY
CHOKE 3️⃣8️⃣ VALUE
SKIFF 🔟4️⃣ TIGHT
CAIRN 6️⃣5️⃣ BATCH
Score: 54

[countessalmirena]

Today’s Wordle surprised me.

Wordle 1,244 4/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I had automatically decided it must be between two possible solutions by row 3, but my eliminator shook me out of my assumption. 

Spoiler

Wordle 1,244 4/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ TRACE
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 MANIA
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 probably vodka or polka then? Played VODKA
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 No! There’s a V in another position… UVULA

I didn’t expect that.

[countessalmirena]

springyzone, I gave your Wordle result a helpful vote because you were logical and persistent. I agree that the answer is just not an obvious one.

[countessalmirena]

Ouch. Another 54.

Daily Octordle #1025
7️⃣🕚
🔟3️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣6️⃣
Score: 54

Spoiler

TRACE 
GHOUL <- eliminator
HAUTE 🎯
CLOTH 🎯
LITHE 🎯
RIDGE 🎯 could have been dirge
BINGO 🎯
VEGAN 🎯
SPARE 💩💣 perfectly logical but wrong 
AWARE 🎯
POUND 🎯

Daily Octordle #1025
BINGO 7️⃣🕚 POUND
AWARE 🔟3️⃣ HAUTE
LITHE 5️⃣4️⃣ CLOTH
VEGAN 8️⃣6️⃣ RIDGE
Score: 54

[countessalmirena]

This is better.

Wordle 1,245 2/6

🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

 Wordle 1,245 2/6

🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛ TRACE
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TACKY

It could have been tacit.