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]

Daily Octordle #1103
4️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣🕛
🔟8️⃣
Score: 59

It was fairly smooth though I did use another eliminator 

Spoiler

crumb. It helped a lot.
I was left though with #6, which I had pegged early on as axion or avion. I had no choice but to just go for it towards the end so tried avion. Wrong.😁 No surprises there!

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1103
4️⃣9️⃣
🕛8️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
🕚5️⃣
Score: 59

Spoiler

Used another eliminator lower down (mawky) as there were a few letter, such as W, that i needed to sort out.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Rescue Octordle #1103
🔟🕛
6️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣🕚
5️⃣7️⃣
Score: 9

9 is as good as it gets with Rescue.

Spoiler

The so-called “Rescue me” player had played 
ODDER
GLORY
KNOCK
NATAL

… and that’s where I came in with NOMAD.

Daily Rescue Octordle #1103
BERRY 🔟🕛 SIXTH
LOOSE 6️⃣9️⃣ BRAID
CHIEF 8️⃣🕚 WREAK
NOMAD 5️⃣7️⃣ EYING
Score: 9

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1103
5️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣🔟
4️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

It’s fine. The eliminator was helpful as it prevented from guessing any alternative for 2L (first solved word). I did have to take a chance twice throughout this Octordle.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOGIN <- eliminator
CRAWL 🎯
WHITE 🎯
WRIST 🎯
AXION 🎯 could have been anion
MIGHT 🎯 could have been fight or wight
MOODY 🎯
ENEMY 🎯
SYRUP 🎯

Daily Octordle #1103
WRIST 5️⃣7️⃣ MIGHT
CRAWL 3️⃣🔟 SYRUP
WHITE 4️⃣6️⃣ AXION
ENEMY 9️⃣8️⃣ MOODY
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1103
3️⃣🔟
2️⃣8️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
Score: 50

Extreme was easier for me.

Spoiler

TRACE
TASTE 🎯 could have been table
ARTSY 🎯
LOGIN <- eliminator
CLOTH 🎯
ELEGY 🎯
GEODE 🎯
REPLY 🎯
SKILL 🎯 could have been swill
DIZZY 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1103
ARTSY 3️⃣🔟 DIZZY
TASTE 2️⃣8️⃣ REPLY
GEODE 7️⃣5️⃣ CLOTH
SKILL 9️⃣6️⃣ ELEGY
Score: 50

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,322 3/6

🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My starter was ideal for this word. 5 or so words…?

Spoiler

Wordle 1,322 3/6

🟩⬛🟩⬛⬛ TRACE
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 HINDS <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TOAST

Could have been thank, toady, twain, twang after the starter. “HINDS” eliminated all but the answer.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,323 4/6

⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟩🟨
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien.
I then had the feeling the pattern would be _i_er
Every word I could think of had an R in it somewhere, anyway.
In hindsight, I should have played a better eliminator, I went for miser.
That surprised me with no R at the end. I immediately thought rivet but it could have been tired/hired and so on.
3rd word was forth.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1104
6️⃣4️⃣
🔟3️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🕚
Score: 58

Spoiler

No complaints with this. I started solving at turn 3 and continued but with a mistake on #1, turn 5 (rogue instead of vogue). Several words we have seen before.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1104
7️⃣4️⃣
🔟🕚
8️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣3️⃣
Score: 58

Spoiler

Much the same with this one, except on turn 5, I used an eliminator (decry), which was actually quite helpful. Again, many words we have seen before.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,323 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I was quite happy with the elegant logic of this!

Spoiler

Wordle 1,323 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛🟨 TRACE
⬛🟩⬛⬛🟨 MINOR <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RIVET 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1104
4️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
🔟2️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
Score: 51

It looks better than it was. This felt a bit “all over the place”.

Spoiler

TRACE
IRATE 🎯 luck - because it could have been grate or prate
YOUNG <- eliminator (bad eliminator! What was I thinking???)
VOGUE 🎯
SAUCY 🎯
SNOUT 🎯
VIGOR 🎯 but note the US spelling 
METRO 🎯
ELITE 🎯 
BINGE 🎯 could have been hinge

Daily Octordle #1104
VOGUE 4️⃣9️⃣ ELITE
SAUCY 5️⃣6️⃣ SNOUT
BINGE 🔟2️⃣ IRATE
VIGOR 7️⃣8️⃣ METRO
Score: 51