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 1,292 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/ensue (trying for some extra letters plus letter placement)/didn't have a clue so tried merge-knew it could not be 'it' but, letter placement and other letters again.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1073
6️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
🕚🔟
3️⃣4️⃣
Score: 56

Not a hard one today, thank goodness. I think #2 might be one they have not had on octordle before.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,292 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I could see two possible answers after my eliminator.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,292 3/6

⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩 TRACE
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ BINGO
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 NERVE

It could have been NURSE.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1073
5️⃣7️⃣
2️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣🔟
4️⃣6️⃣
Score: 45

One of my most-often-used eliminators was there! It was fortuitous that I used it today.

That eliminator also gave me 3L (your #5, springyzone), because it was either one letter or another to complete that word.

I had more good luck at 2R, because it could have been one letter all the way. But that’s where the luck ran out; my guess for the final word was wrong, but it did leave me with only one possible answer remaining.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO 🎯🎉🍾 <- supposed to be eliminator!
EXACT 🎯 because no N, thus wasn’t “enact”
NOISE 🎯
NINTH 🎯
PROSE 🎯
SPLAT 🎯
PUFFY 🎯 could have been “puppy”
WEARY 💣
READY 🎯

Daily Octordle #1073
NINTH 5️⃣7️⃣ SPLAT
LOGIN 2️⃣8️⃣ PUFFY
EXACT 3️⃣🔟 READY
NOISE 4️⃣6️⃣ PROSE
Score: 45

[springyzone]

Awesome work on that octordle, countess!!!

Wordle 1,293 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout.

So the pattern was exposed   _HOSE
Had to be whose or chose, as far as I could see!
Third turn I tried whose. 😁 Oh well, luck of the draw.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1074
6️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣🕚
9️⃣🔟
Score: 56

These days I often work through all the free octordles-chill, extreme, sequence etc so I could be mixed up with one of those, but wasn't

Spoiler

ultra an answer just a few days ago?

Otherwise, some more interesting words. I was hesitant with #8 as I kept thinking-not sure if that would be American spelling so it can't be right.

[countessalmirena]

I play the Dordle and Quordle as well, but mostly don’t post them here.

Do you also play the “rescue” Octordle?  That is weird, with such a bad start!

Ah well - here’s today’s Octordle.

Daily Octordle #1074
4️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣🔟
9️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

I was taken aback with the correct (UK/Aus) spelling of one word!

There was also an infamous word here.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
TALON 🎯
LAUGH 🎯
ULTRA 🎯
CAULK 🎯 word of infamy!
FIBRE 🎯 not the US spelling! Hurrah!
LEVEL 🎯
QUELL 🎯
OXIDE 🎯 could have been poise, but my gut said it would be o_i_e. Pure luck

Daily Octordle #1074
LAUGH 4️⃣3️⃣ TALON
ULTRA 5️⃣8️⃣ LEVEL
CAULK 6️⃣🔟 OXIDE
QUELL 9️⃣7️⃣ FIBRE
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,293 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩
🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I wanted an eliminator with certain letters… and while I didn’t get every letter that I’d have liked, my eliminator did serve me well.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,293 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 TRACE
🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛ SHOJI <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CHOSE

 I’d have liked to include N and L; I almost used LOGIN or LINGO or LIONS but I really wanted the S in either 1st or 4th position.

[springyzone]

I was taken aback with the correct (UK/Aus) spelling of one word!

There was also an infamous word here.

Yes, I was so taken aback by the possibility of fibre that I wasn't game to try it till last. Maybe they were trying to trip up the American players, for once.

Why is caulk infamous?

And I could never have used shoji as an eliminator as I have never seen that word before, but well done!

Wordle 1,294 3/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1075
9️⃣🔟
4️⃣🕚
6️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
Score: 58

Spoiler

I think you should do well in this one as solving one word does lead to the next.
#8 is one of those words of the moment, has been out a few times lately.

Yes, I do usually play sequence and the ridiculous words they start with are frustrating. Four turns and they would have us believe a player had not covered all vowels or at least solved one word. Day after day.

I only play them when I have time as some days I am lucky to even get the daily one in.