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 โ18-01-2025 06:42 AM
The extremeโฆ
Daily Extreme Octordle #1090
7๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
๐9๏ธโฃ
3๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
Score: 52
TRACE
GHOUL <- eliminator
HAZEL ๐ฏ
FISHY ๐ฏ
OASIS ๐ฏ
SIXTY ๐ฏ
HIPPY ๐ฏ
CAVIL ๐ฏ
BULKY ๐ฏ
DEUCE ๐ฏ
I wonโt point out all of the โcould have beensโ, but there were plenty.
Daily Extreme Octordle #1090
HIPPY 7๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ CAVIL
FISHY 4๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ SIXTY
DEUCE ๐9๏ธโฃ BULKY
HAZEL 3๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ OASIS
Score: 52
on โ18-01-2025 06:51 AM
The rescueโฆ
Daily Rescue Octordle #1090
5๏ธโฃ๐
6๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
๐๐
8๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
Score: 9
The following had already been played (disastrously, of course):
GROWN
THICK
COUPE
TIMID
โฆ I could immediately solve 1L, and so on.
OTHER ๐ฏ
MOWER ๐ฏ
GLOAT ๐ฏ
GAMMA ๐ฏ
USING ๐ฏ
USURP ๐ฏ
UPPER ๐ฏ
SNAKE ๐ฏ
Daily Rescue Octordle #1090
OTHER 5๏ธโฃ๐ SNAKE
MOWER 6๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ GLOAT
UPPER ๐๐ USURP
GAMMA 8๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ USING
Score: 9
on โ18-01-2025 06:57 AM
@springyzone wrote:Daily Octordle #1090
4๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ๐
5๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
6๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
Score: 52
[โฆ]
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
Mm-hmmโฆ yes, the risk of a shameful error!
But you played it perfectly.
on โ18-01-2025 07:12 AM
The sequenceโฆ
Daily Sequence Octordle #1090
3๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ
5๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
7๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ
9๏ธโฃ๐
Score: 52
TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
FLOAT ๐ฏ
DONUT ๐ฏ
FILET ๐ฏ
BULKY ๐ฏ Cheek! I actually played โbulkyโ as a sort-of ironic gesture, thinking it would be sulky or sully or bully or dully
BATON ๐ฏ
MAJOR ๐ฏ
COPSE ๐ฏ
WORRY ๐ฏ
Daily Sequence Octordle #1090
FLOAT 3๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ DONUT
FILET 5๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ BULKY
BATON 7๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ MAJOR
COPSE 9๏ธโฃ๐ WORRY
Score: 52
โ18-01-2025 07:46 AM - edited โ18-01-2025 07:47 AM
My sequence was 62 and my rescue was 8.
Because I don't normally post results of those on here, I usually approach sequence differently. as if I have a bowl of popcorn and I am just seeing where the plot leads me.๐
I have no sense of urgency on the first word and I'll often play 3 eliminators in a row, even if I have a suspicion of the answer.
Usually I just go alien/shout (you would never have guessed!) then maybe pricy and then I may guess or if not, I may go for fudge. (not fudgy as I have already covered Y ending & I figure the e in last spot might help further down the line)
After that slow beginning, they usually all fall into place because I have covered so much of the alphabet. It's a bit of a lazy method, I guess.
on โ18-01-2025 11:10 AM
The popcorn method of solvingโฆ My sequence score is the most variable, I have to admit. I find it hard to focus only on that first word, knowing that the other words will need letters helpful to them without knowing whether the letters Iโve already used are helpful to them.
Rescue is so illogical! I mutter โWho on earth would ever use this ridiculous and haphazard way of guessing?โ under my breathโฆ
on โ19-01-2025 01:22 AM
Daily Octordle #1091
8๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ
6๏ธโฃ2๏ธโฃ
9๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
7๏ธโฃ๐
Score: 50
As soon as Iโd played my starter, I had 4 letters revealed for 1R, and 3 letters (2 of which were green) for 2R. 1R was clearly 1 of 4 possible wordsโฆ yet I decided to plunge into a guess for 2R first. I canโt explain it; it was not a logical decision.
TRACE
STALE ๐ฏ could have been stage, stale, stave, state, slate, plate, elate, abateโฆ Iโll stop there. It was luck and folly that gave me this.
CLEAT ๐ฏ This was the one with 4 possibilities after my starter: cheat or cleat or cadet or รฉclat. After โSTALEโ, it was down to cleat or รฉclat. 50/50.
BINGO <- eliminator
BASIC ๐ฏ
SEGUE ๐ฏ
BUNNY ๐ฏ
RIGHT ๐ฏ
PUPIL ๐ฏ
PIZZA ๐ฏ
Daily Octordle #1091
RIGHT 8๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ CLEAT
SEGUE 6๏ธโฃ2๏ธโฃ STALE
PUPIL 9๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ BASIC
BUNNY 7๏ธโฃ๐ PIZZA
Score: 50
on โ19-01-2025 07:52 AM
@countessalmirena wrote:The popcorn method of solvingโฆ My sequence score is the most variable, I have to admit. I find it hard to focus only on that first word, knowing that the other words will need letters helpful to them without knowing whether the letters Iโve already used are helpful to them.
Rescue is so illogical! I mutter โWho on earth would ever use this ridiculous and haphazard way of guessing?โ under my breathโฆ
๐คฃ๐๐คฃ
That sums up my thoughts.
The popcorn method.๐คฃ
So true though. With some words in sequence, I actually am taking care of future planning.
With the rescue, it is so ridiculous that I think it must actually be tricky for them to put it together, so that there is always enough there to solve at least one straight off, or maybe two, but not the others quite yet.
on โ19-01-2025 08:00 AM
Wordle 1,310 5/6
โฌโฌโฌ๐ฉโฌ
โฌโฌ๐จโฌโฌ
โฌ๐จโฌโฌโฌ
โฌโฌ๐ฉโฌโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
It's not that I had no idea after turn 2, it is that I had too many ideas.๐คฃ
I started to write them down.
My first inclination was rodeo. I really, really wanted to just go for it, I don't know, maybe I should have. I would have been wrong, mind you, but probably no worse off than I ended up being.
But as it was, I decided I needed another eliminator.
I used crimp. That got rid of some possibilities but not enough.
So I tried bawdy next. Goodbye rodeo. ๐
โ19-01-2025 08:05 AM - edited โ19-01-2025 08:06 AM
Daily Octordle #1091
7๏ธโฃ8๏ธโฃ
3๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ
6๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
๐๐
Score: 58
By turn 5, I just couldn't see my way clear, so played another eliminator (burps. Not all that refined but it got me moving again.๐)
With extreme, my score was 66. Just too many possibilities & did not start solving till turn 4, and a slow popcorn a couple of times along the way.๐