on โ27-01-2022 01:45 AM
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 ๐คฃ
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on โ16-01-2025 09:37 AM
@springyzone wrote:Daily Octordle #1088
6๏ธโฃ๐
3๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ
5๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ๐
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.
SpoilerI 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 itโs sone sort of virus (not COVID, not flu), Iโve not been able to visit mum for the last week. However, Iโve been speaking over the phone with the hospital staff and theyโre thinking of a release date possibly next week! Theyโll hold back if Iโm still infectious, obviously, but it is such good news.
This wretched knee - Iโve twisted it sideways or something. I canโt straighten it properly now but it does bend. Sideways pop if I move the wrong way. Thatโs fun - not.
on โ17-01-2025 06:51 AM
Wow, what great work on octordle yesterday!
Wordle 1,308 3/6
โฌโฌโฌ๐จโฌ
๐จโฌ๐ฉโฌโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
I got lucky. After turn 2, the answer was the only word I could think of, offhand.
on โ17-01-2025 07:09 AM
Daily Extreme Octordle #1089
6๏ธโฃ๐
3๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ
7๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ๐
Score: 58
Now although it is under 60 (my personal benchmark๐) I am kicking myself over this one as I think more strategic playing could have lowered the score slightly.
on โ17-01-2025 07:13 AM
Oops, I have just noticed that was the extreme.
The classic:
Daily Octordle #1089
4๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ
5๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ๐
๐6๏ธโฃ
Score: 56
on โ17-01-2025 09:36 AM
Hard goingโฆ
Daily Octordle #1089
5๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
๐3๏ธโฃ
6๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ
Score: 52
TRACE
GHOUL <- eliminator
ORGAN ๐ฏ could have been argon
TWIRL ๐ฏ
UNION ๐ฏ
BUGGY ๐ฏ could have been muggy, pudgy
SPIEL ๐ฏ (For some reason it took me a while to consider this)
SCALP ๐ฏ
PLIER ๐ฏ
PROVE ๐ฏ
Daily Octordle #1089
UNION 5๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ SPIEL
SCALP 8๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ PLIER
PROVE ๐3๏ธโฃ ORGAN
BUGGY 6๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ TWIRL
Score: 52
on โ17-01-2025 10:03 AM
Wordle 1,308 3/6
โฌ๐ฉโฌโฌ๐ฉ
โฌ๐จโฌโฌ๐จ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
At least 20 possible answers at firstโฆ! I had to narrow things down.
Wordle 1,308 3/6
โฌ๐ฉโฌโฌ๐ฉ TRACE
โฌ๐จโฌโฌ๐จ DONGS <- eliminator
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ PROSE
I was also thinking of voids, bongs, porks, etc., as the eliminator.
on โ18-01-2025 06:10 AM
I am frankly amazed that I got this in 3.
Wordle 1,309 3/6
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ
๐จโฌโฌ๐จโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
My eliminator was decent enough, but solving this Wordle with my next guess was roughly a 1 in 20 piece of luck.
Wordle 1,309 3/6
โฌโฌโฌโฌโฌ TRACE
๐จโฌโฌ๐จโฌ LOGIN <- eliminator
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ SILLY ๐ฏ
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 startersโฆ
Pure luck.
on โ18-01-2025 06:23 AM
You had a wonderful result, considering!
I almost got lucky with this one.
Wordle 1,309 3/6
โฌ๐จ๐จโฌโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
Seeing the L I letters that I had and their positions, I figured the i was probably in second place.
on โ18-01-2025 06:31 AM
Daily Octordle #1090
4๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ๐
5๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
6๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
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. ๐คฃ
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.
on โ18-01-2025 06:31 AM
Daily Octordle #1090
4๏ธโฃ๐
3๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
9๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ2๏ธโฃ
Score: 49
Not badโฆ I could guess the first three words without an eliminator.
TRACE
TRADE ๐ฏ
CHARM ๐ฏ
CHECK ๐ฏ
LINGO <- eliminator
ANGRY ๐ฏ
IRONY ๐ฏ
CRIER ๐ฏ
AVOID ๐ฏ
ENNUI ๐ฏ
Daily Octordle #1090
CHECK 4๏ธโฃ๐ ENNUI
CHARM 3๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ ANGRY
AVOID 9๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ IRONY
CRIER 8๏ธโฃ2๏ธโฃ TRADE
Score: 49