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]

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@springyzone wrote:

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Octordle satisfied. I think you’ll do quite well with it, springy.

Spoiler

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Ah, the countess curse.🤣

Daily Octordle #1057
8️⃣4️⃣
9️⃣🕐
7️⃣🔟
5️⃣🕛
Score: 68

I must own up to just being a bit rushed and careless with it today.

Spoiler

mistakes cling/clink and joker/poker

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Oh no!

Mea culpa. I shouldn't have said you'd do well. It may have given you a feeling of "I will just rush through this without much care." I'm going to give you a helpfull thumb's-up in acknowledgement of my part in this chaos.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Wordle 1,276 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟨⬛🟩
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I know the pattern after turn 2, but coast/roast/boast/toast?

Turn 3 was an eliminator, brick. I really fancied coast but luckily turn 3 set me straight.

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I'd ruled out all the other possible initial letters, so I did have that extra piece of luck.

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

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Mea culpa. I shouldn't have said you'd do well. It may have given you a feeling of "I will just rush through this without much care." I'm going to give you a helpfull thumb's-up in acknowledgement of my part in this chaos.

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🤣😂No, I can't really blame you as I have always done them before I log into ebay. So, I am only reading comments after the event.

Today's wordle.

Wordle 1,277 4/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1058
🔟9️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
🕚3️⃣
Score: 56

I found today's a bit better.

Spoiler

I did use another eliminator further dowwn around turn 7?  Cadgy

[countessalmirena]

Today’s Wordle did not stumble or hesitate. I was happy with it.

Wordle 1,277 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,277 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ TRACE
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 HILUS <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SCOWL

The only other possible answer was scold.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1058
8️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
🔟6️⃣
Score: 52

Well, that’s surprising … same word twice, save for the vowel popping up…

All in all, this was not tortuous.

Spoiler

TRACE
GHOUL <- eliminator 
RECUT 🎯
GAUDY 🎯
FROTH 🎯
FINAL 🎯
FLANK 🎯
PARSE 🎯
VISTA 🎯
PURSE 🎯

As easy as licking icecream.

Daily Octordle #1058
PARSE 8️⃣4️⃣ GAUDY
FLANK 7️⃣9️⃣ VISTA
FROTH 5️⃣3️⃣ RECUT
PURSE 🔟6️⃣ FINAL
Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,278 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout
This gave me yellow E H T
My first thought was teeth, it had to be teeth, nothing else it could be, surely. 😁
Then I thought.. maybe fetch, maybe depth?
So 3rd word was fudgy and I had to rethink it all.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1059
7️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣🔟
9️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

I swished through this quickly today but there was an element of luck with it all, I could have gone off course easily. Most of the words have been out recently, maybe in the chill or extreme or sequence versions? That's probably what made me think of them.

Spoiler

as i was clicking on greet for #2, I suddenly thought oh, no, that can be egret and I've been caught by that in the past. But greet it was and I am almost sure greet was one of the answers recently in one of the other octordles. And how often must we keep seeing debug and allay?

[countessalmirena]

Oh my goodness!  I was superbly lucky with my eliminator choice (over which I spent quite some time).

Wordle 1,278 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,278 3/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 TRACE
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ HELIO
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 HEFTY 🎯

 I started off thinking that I should use an eliminator that included I and O and S and H and N or L, but I ended up dumping the S. Including the E in 2nd position was also very helpful.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1059
5️⃣3️⃣
🔟4️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

There we go! A 52 for both of us.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN -< eliminator
GREET 🎯
BILGE 🎯 This was pivotal in opening up the rest of the answers.
DEBUG 🎯
BAYOU 🎯
TENET 🎯
ALLAY 🎯
PRAWN 🎯
HEAVE 🎯

Daily Octordle #1059
DEBUG 5️⃣3️⃣ GREET
HEAVE 🔟4️⃣ BILGE
BAYOU 6️⃣9️⃣ PRAWN
ALLAY 8️⃣7️⃣ TENET
Score: 52