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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Wordle 1,326 4/6

โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›
โฌ›๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›๐ŸŸจ
โฌ›๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

 

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alien. Not a great start.
shout
booth, knowing it could be tooth, but it was a 50/50 choice.
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Daily Octordle #1107
๐Ÿ”Ÿ๐Ÿ•š
7๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
4๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 58

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Reasonably straight forward. Started solving on turn 3 but used another eliminator (pricy) on turn 5. It helped a lot.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1107
5๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ•›
9๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
6๏ธโƒฃ2๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 59

 

This one went down to the wire but I did start to solve at turn 2.

By turn 3 though, I used my usual eliminator.

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Made 2 mistakes along the way.
#1, foist instead of joist. What is it with these J wwords, my downfall every time, lately!
#2, was it throw or throb? Could have been either. I decided to go with throw first.

And I was not overly happy with gator as an answer on #5, although I guessed it reasonably early on. We're used to Americanisms but to me, gator is very much the slang term.
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Wordle 1,326 3/6

๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›
โฌ›๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ›
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

A nice easy one todayโ€ฆ which is good because my knee, my kneeโ€ฆ 

 

 

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Wordle 1,326 3/6

๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ›โฌ›โฌ› TRACE
โฌ›๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ› GHOUL <- eliminator 
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ TOOTH ๐ŸŽฏ


TRACE was an excellent starter today, in spite of giving me four black tiles. And my eliminator did a wonderful job in handing me the answer.

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Daily Octordle #1107
7๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
9๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
8๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ
5๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 52

Ah, ah, ahโ€ฆ it almost tricked me.

 

First of all, it gave me nothing with my starter. Nothing, nothing in any tile.

 

I thought โ€œWhat!?โ€

 

I thought โ€œIs this a conspiracy against people who use TRACE?โ€

 

And then I realised that Octordleโ€™s setting was on โ€œsequenceโ€.

 

With relief, I switched to โ€œDailyโ€.

 

 

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TRACE
LOGIN <- eliminator
ANGRY ๐ŸŽฏ
IRONY ๐ŸŽฏ
AVOID ๐ŸŽฏ
AFTER ๐ŸŽฏ could have been aster
BRAVO ๐ŸŽฏ
CHARM ๐ŸŽฏ could have been scarp (but I donโ€™t recall its being used before)
CHECK ๐ŸŽฏ
ENNUI ๐ŸŽฏ


Daily Octordle #1107
BRAVO 7๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ AFTER
CHECK 9๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ ENNUI
CHARM 8๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ ANGRY
AVOID 5๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ IRONY
Score: 52

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Sequence was not in a first class carriage today.

 

Daily Sequence Octordle #1107
3๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ
5๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ”Ÿ๐Ÿ•š
Score: 56

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First of all, it gave me nothing with my starter. Nothing, nothing in any tile.

 

I thought โ€œWhat!?โ€

 

I thought โ€œIs this a conspiracy against people who use TRACE?โ€

 

And then I realised that Octordleโ€™s setting was on โ€œsequenceโ€.

 

With relief, I switched to โ€œDailyโ€.

 

๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ˜‚

Sounds like the sort of thing I would do!

 

My quarrel with sequence is that once I type in my first word and enter it, the word section  jumps up so that the word is now invisible. I have to manually scroll it down to see if I have any hits. Annoying.

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This wretched knee gave me hell all night. Taking my mind off it, letโ€™s Wordle.

 

Wordle 1,327 3/6

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

 

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Wordle 1,327 3/6

โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›๐ŸŸจ TRACE
โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ› BEGAN <- eliminator/guess combo
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ PEDAL ๐ŸŽฏ

Fair enough.
It could have been delay or medal.

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Daily Octordle #1108
4๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ
2๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
9๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 51

I had an easy first word after my starter, but then needed to slash and sow with an eliminator. It was a careful process as I looked for the panels where the word had the greatest likelihood of being correct - for preference, I wanted certainty!

 

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TRACE
CROAK ๐ŸŽฏ
BLIPS <- eliminator
CLASS ๐ŸŽฏ
SLING ๐ŸŽฏ
LASSO ๐ŸŽฏ
LABOR ๐ŸŽฏ
ORDER ๐ŸŽฏ
BERET ๐ŸŽฏ This is an example โ€ฆ Had I not solved โ€œorderโ€ first, Iโ€™d have played โ€œberthโ€ here
WHEAT ๐ŸŽฏ


Daily Octordle #1108
CLASS 4๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ SLING
CROAK 2๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ LASSO
ORDER 8๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ WHEAT
BERET 9๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ LABOR
Score: 51

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I did wordle yesterday on my phone and got it in 3 but didn't do the octordles as I hate the scroll and I can never seem to sort out how to post on here properly with the phone anyway.

 

I hope your knee is a lot better today.

I have a  sore big toe, left foot. I am hoping it goes away. I know it must be the gout. It seems to move around, sometimes fingers, sometimes a toe.๐Ÿ˜ 

 

Wordle 1,328 3/6

โฌ›๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›
โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

 

Even though the only letters I had were yellow, the answer was the only word I could come up with, given the location of the yellows. Maybe there were others, but in any case, my guess worked out.

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Daily Octordle #1109
๐Ÿ”Ÿ4๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
7๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ•š
6๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 60

 

I went slowly and carefully with this and made no mistakes, but after my first 2 turns, I really could not see my way clear to make a confident guess. Every single spot I looked at seemed to have several possibilities although in hindsight, maybe I should have thought of #6.

But in any case, I went for another eliminator (pricy). You really get punished score wise though unless you start solving by the third turn.

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