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:

Daily Octordle #1088
6️⃣🔟
3️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🕛
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.

Spoiler

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?

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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 it’s sone sort of virus (not COVID, not flu), I’ve not been able to visit mum for the last week. However, I’ve been speaking over the phone with the hospital staff and they’re thinking of a release date possibly next week! They’ll hold back if I’m still infectious, obviously, but it is such good news.

This wretched knee - I’ve twisted it sideways or something. I can’t straighten it properly now but it does bend. Sideways pop if I move the wrong way. That’s fun - not.

[springyzone]

Wow, what great work on octordle yesterday!

Wordle 1,308 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1089
6️⃣🕚
3️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣🔟
Score: 58

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

Spoiler

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.

[springyzone]

Oops, I have just noticed that was the extreme.

The classic:

Daily Octordle #1089
4️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣🔟
🕚6️⃣
Score: 56

Spoiler

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.😂

[countessalmirena]

Hard going…

Daily Octordle #1089
5️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
🔟3️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

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

Daily Octordle #1089
UNION 5️⃣7️⃣ SPIEL
SCALP 8️⃣9️⃣ PLIER
PROVE 🔟3️⃣ ORGAN
BUGGY 6️⃣4️⃣ TWIRL
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,308 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

At least 20 possible answers at first…! I had to narrow things down.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,308 3/6

⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 TRACE
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨 DONGS <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 PROSE

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

[countessalmirena]

I am frankly amazed that I got this in 3.

Wordle 1,309 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

Spoiler

Wordle 1,309 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ LOGIN <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SILLY 🎯

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 starters…

Pure luck.

[springyzone]

You had a wonderful result, considering!

I almost got lucky with this one.

Wordle 1,309 3/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

Spoiler

so I tried silky. How silly of me.😂 But at least it was close enough after that to guesss the right answer.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1090
4️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣🔟
5️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
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. 🤣

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.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1090
4️⃣🔟
3️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣2️⃣
Score: 49

Not bad… I could guess the first three words without an eliminator.

Spoiler

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

Daily Octordle #1090
CHECK 4️⃣🔟 ENNUI
CHARM 3️⃣6️⃣ ANGRY
AVOID 9️⃣7️⃣ IRONY
CRIER 8️⃣2️⃣ TRADE
Score: 49