WORDLE - anyone else trying the daily online word game?

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 ๐Ÿคฃ

 

 

 

 

 

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Octordle #1088
6๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
3๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ
5๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ•›
Score: 55

 

This is another one where the lower score surprised me. It started okay with one word leading to the next but I made a mistake on #2 towards the end.

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I only had E & R and tried error. After that, I knew it had to be gorge.

Although I solved #8 last, I had fancied marry since quite early on in the piece but held off as it could possibly, at that stage, have been parry or even karma. So I used an eliminator before I made a guess-skimp.

Sorry to hear you're still not well. You probably need a day or so of just taking it easy.

My daughters and families just got back from a cruise to NZ last weekend and just about all of them are or were ill. One tested positive to covid and although all the others have tested neg, I'd be sure that is what they had.

Most worried about one grandson who has only eaten a few icypoles and half a subway in nearly a week. Well, quarter of a subway as he was given half of one and ate half of that. Hopefully at least on the mend.

 

How is your mother doing?

 

 


I hope your family members get better soon, and especially the poor grandson.

 

 

This has been quite a whammy of not feeling well, and because itโ€™s sone sort of virus (not COVID, not flu), Iโ€™ve not been able to visit mum for the last week. However, Iโ€™ve been speaking over the phone with the hospital staff and theyโ€™re thinking of a release date possibly next week! Theyโ€™ll hold back if Iโ€™m still infectious, obviously, but it is such good news.

 

 

This wretched knee - Iโ€™ve twisted it sideways or something. I canโ€™t straighten it properly now but it does bend. Sideways pop if I move the wrong way. Thatโ€™s fun - not.

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Wow, what great work on octordle yesterday!

 

Wordle 1,308 3/6

โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›
๐ŸŸจโฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ›
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

 

I got lucky. After turn 2, the answer was the only word I could think of, offhand.

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1089
6๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ•š
3๏ธโƒฃ8๏ธโƒฃ
7๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
4๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
Score: 58

 

Now although it is under 60 (my personal benchmark๐Ÿ˜‚) I am kicking myself over this one as I think more strategic playing could have lowered the score slightly. 

 

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I made a mistake on #8 at turn 5, by trying first, as that was all I could think of. Wrong.
But I would probably have been better off trying dryly for #5 as I could see it had no vowels.
I suppose it could have been wryly, but usually on octordle they like dryly.

Had I done that, I would have known first was impossible.

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Oops, I have just noticed that was the extreme.

 

The classic:

Daily Octordle #1089
4๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ
5๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
๐Ÿ•š6๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 56

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Made a mistake lower down, tried probe instead of prove.
I didn't even think of prove, I was convinced there was nothing else but probe, till, mistake, then a light bulb moment after the fact.๐Ÿ˜‚
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Hard goingโ€ฆ

 

Daily Octordle #1089
5๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ”Ÿ3๏ธโƒฃ
6๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 52

 

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TRACE
GHOUL <- eliminator
ORGAN ๐ŸŽฏ could have been argon
TWIRL ๐ŸŽฏ
UNION ๐ŸŽฏ
BUGGY ๐ŸŽฏ could have been muggy, pudgy
SPIEL ๐ŸŽฏ (For some reason it took me a while to consider this)
SCALP ๐ŸŽฏ
PLIER ๐ŸŽฏ
PROVE ๐ŸŽฏ


Daily Octordle #1089
UNION 5๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ SPIEL
SCALP 8๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ PLIER
PROVE ๐Ÿ”Ÿ3๏ธโƒฃ ORGAN
BUGGY 6๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ TWIRL
Score: 52

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Wordle 1,308 3/6

โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉ
โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจ
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

At least 20 possible answers at firstโ€ฆ! I had to narrow things down.

 

 

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Wordle 1,308 3/6

โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉ TRACE
โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจ DONGS <- eliminator
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ PROSE


I was also thinking of voids, bongs, porks, etc., as the eliminator.

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I am frankly amazed that I got this in 3.

 

Wordle 1,309 3/6

โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›
๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

 

My eliminator was decent enough, but solving this Wordle with my next guess was roughly a 1 in 20 piece of luck.

 

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Wordle 1,309 3/6

โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ› TRACE
๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ› LOGIN <- eliminator
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ SILLY ๐ŸŽฏ


With only an L and an I (both yellow) uncovered, this was not looking good. All of the _illy patterns, or _ il_y, or s_ill words, just for startersโ€ฆ

Pure luck.

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You had a wonderful result, considering!

I almost got lucky with this one.

Wordle 1,309 3/6

โฌ›๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›๐ŸŸฉ
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

 

Seeing the L I letters that I had and their positions, I figured the i was probably in second place.

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so I tried silky. How silly of me.๐Ÿ˜‚ But at least it was close enough after that to guesss the right answer.
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Daily Octordle #1090
4๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
5๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
6๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 52

 

This one, I got very lucky with.

After my first 2 turns, I didn't really have an instant clue about any of them, but we know solving something at turn 3 is pretty crucial to a half way decent result, especially if a mistake is going to be made further down (which is my usual form).

I so wanted to try another eliminator for turn 3, but oh the shame, especially as I had 4 letters exposed in #2.

How hard can it be, I thought.

So I forced myself to sit there for a while till inspiration came, because I knew I would have to front up here and show results. ๐Ÿคฃ

After that, the position of the greens basically gave me most of the other answers.

 

I got through the extreme version but score wasn't as good, was 63.

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Daily Octordle #1090
4๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
3๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
9๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ2๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 49

Not badโ€ฆ I could guess the first three words without an eliminator.

 

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TRACE
TRADE ๐ŸŽฏ
CHARM ๐ŸŽฏ
CHECK ๐ŸŽฏ
LINGO <- eliminator 
ANGRY ๐ŸŽฏ
IRONY ๐ŸŽฏ
CRIER ๐ŸŽฏ
AVOID ๐ŸŽฏ
ENNUI ๐ŸŽฏ


Daily Octordle #1090
CHECK 4๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ ENNUI
CHARM 3๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ ANGRY
AVOID 9๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ IRONY
CRIER 8๏ธโƒฃ2๏ธโƒฃ TRADE
Score: 49  

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