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
Solved! Go to Solution.
on โ04-02-2025 08:04 AM
on โ04-02-2025 08:13 AM
Daily Octordle #1107
๐๐
7๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
Score: 58
Daily Extreme Octordle #1107
5๏ธโฃ๐
9๏ธโฃ๐
6๏ธโฃ2๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
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.
on โ04-02-2025 09:26 AM
Wordle 1,326 3/6
๐ฉโฌโฌโฌโฌ
โฌ๐จ๐ฉโฌโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
A nice easy one todayโฆ which is good because my knee, my kneeโฆ
Wordle 1,326 3/6
๐ฉโฌโฌโฌโฌ TRACE
โฌ๐จ๐ฉโฌโฌ GHOUL <- eliminator
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ TOOTH ๐ฏ
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.
โ04-02-2025 09:48 AM - edited โ04-02-2025 09:49 AM
Daily Octordle #1107
7๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
9๏ธโฃ๐
8๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ
5๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ
Score: 52
Ah, ah, ahโฆ it almost tricked me.
First of all, it gave me nothing with my starter. Nothing, nothing in any tile.
I thought โWhat!?โ
I thought โIs this a conspiracy against people who use TRACE?โ
And then I realised that Octordleโs setting was on โsequenceโ.
With relief, I switched to โDailyโ.
TRACE
LOGIN <- eliminator
ANGRY ๐ฏ
IRONY ๐ฏ
AVOID ๐ฏ
AFTER ๐ฏ could have been aster
BRAVO ๐ฏ
CHARM ๐ฏ could have been scarp (but I donโt recall its being used before)
CHECK ๐ฏ
ENNUI ๐ฏ
Daily Octordle #1107
BRAVO 7๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ AFTER
CHECK 9๏ธโฃ๐ ENNUI
CHARM 8๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ ANGRY
AVOID 5๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ IRONY
Score: 52
on โ04-02-2025 09:56 AM
Sequence was not in a first class carriage today.
Daily Sequence Octordle #1107
3๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ
5๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
๐๐
Score: 56
on โ04-02-2025 10:21 AM
First of all, it gave me nothing with my starter. Nothing, nothing in any tile.
I thought โWhat!?โ
I thought โIs this a conspiracy against people who use TRACE?โ
And then I realised that Octordleโs setting was on โsequenceโ.
With relief, I switched to โDailyโ.
๐คฃ๐
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.
on โ05-02-2025 10:03 AM
This wretched knee gave me hell all night. Taking my mind off it, letโs Wordle.
Wordle 1,327 3/6
โฌโฌ๐จโฌ๐จ
โฌ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
Wordle 1,327 3/6
โฌโฌ๐จโฌ๐จ TRACE
โฌ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉโฌ BEGAN <- eliminator/guess combo
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ PEDAL ๐ฏ
Fair enough.
It could have been delay or medal.
on โ05-02-2025 12:25 PM
Daily Octordle #1108
4๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
2๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ๐
9๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
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!
TRACE
CROAK ๐ฏ
BLIPS <- eliminator
CLASS ๐ฏ
SLING ๐ฏ
LASSO ๐ฏ
LABOR ๐ฏ
ORDER ๐ฏ
BERET ๐ฏ This is an example โฆ Had I not solved โorderโ first, Iโd have played โberthโ here
WHEAT ๐ฏ
Daily Octordle #1108
CLASS 4๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ SLING
CROAK 2๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ LASSO
ORDER 8๏ธโฃ๐ WHEAT
BERET 9๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ LABOR
Score: 51
on โ06-02-2025 07:03 AM
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.๐
Wordle 1,328 3/6
โฌ๐จ๐จโฌโฌ
โฌโฌโฌ๐จโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
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.
on โ06-02-2025 07:10 AM
Daily Octordle #1109
๐4๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
7๏ธโฃ๐
6๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
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.