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 Extreme Octordle #1116
8️⃣🔟
9️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
Score: 52

This flowed on better for me.

Spoiler

We're seeing urban pop up a bit lately, time for it to be rested for a while.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1116
6️⃣2️⃣
9️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 44

My eliminator was an answer.

🥳🙌🏻🍾🎉🥂🪅🎁🎈👏🏻

From there on, I trod carefully and managed without an eliminator.

Glorious!

Spoiler

TRACE
GHOUL 🎯
HOARD 🎯
CRIED 🎯
ELIDE 🎯
STEER 🎯 could have been strew
PIANO 🎯
DENIM 🎯
AWFUL 🎯

Daily Octordle #1116
STEER 6️⃣2️⃣ GHOUL
AWFUL 9️⃣7️⃣ PIANO
DENIM 8️⃣3️⃣ HOARD
ELIDE 5️⃣4️⃣ CRIED
Score: 44

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1116
2️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
🔟8️⃣
Score: 50

Extreme wasn’t bad, either!

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TRACE
CARET 🎯 It was either this or cater (or recta but I thought this far less likely)
CLACK 🎯
BOUGH <- eliminator
BATHE 🎯
SAUTE 🎯
SMIRK 🎯
SKULL 🎯
KNELT 🎯
URBAN 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1116
CARET 2️⃣9️⃣ KNELT
CLACK 3️⃣5️⃣ BATHE
SAUTE 6️⃣7️⃣ SMIRK
URBAN 🔟8️⃣ SKULL
Score: 50

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,335 3/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I was lucky with one particular letter of my eliminator. Without that, I’d have taken 4 rows.

It did still leave me with two possibilities (and one slang word that I considered unlikely).

Spoiler

Wordle 1,335 3/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛ TRACE
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛ BONUS <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 RUMBA 🎯

It could have been umbra.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,336 5/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien (which didn't do a lot to cut down the possibilities)
shout
fudgy-I wasn't expecting the Y but it is always in there with a chance if the T isn't at the end.
dirty-I knew ditty was a possibility so it was a 50/50 chance.
ditty

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1117
🔟7️⃣
2️⃣5️⃣
🕚8️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
Score: 56

Started okay when I solved one on turn 2, but then I needed my eliminator plus made a stupid mistake half way through.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1117
3️⃣🕚
6️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🕛
9️⃣5️⃣
Score: 61

Spoiler

Used a couple of eliminators fairly early on in the piece, which I knew would set me back, but I wasn't feeling it.
Then I made my classic mistake. Tried motel instead of towel on #2.  I always fall for it, although I think one time it was motel when I remembered and tried towel instead.🤣

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1117
🔟7️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
FOUND <- eliminator
FERAL 🎯
MACRO 🎯
PAPAL 🎯
BATON 🎯
EATEN 🎯
UNITE 🎯
NAIVE 🎯
VIVID 🎯

Daily Octordle #1117
VIVID 🔟7️⃣ EATEN
NAIVE 9️⃣6️⃣ BATON
MACRO 4️⃣3️⃣ FERAL
UNITE 8️⃣5️⃣ PAPAL
Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,337 5/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout didn't give me much, except a few letters I could discount, I suppose.
The field was still wide open, though I suspected it might end in Y, so I tried pricy.
No Y but at least some progress.
I was so pleased as I thought I instantly knew the answer. Typed in crowd, looked for the share tab and was surprised I couldn't find it. Then horror. What? Crowd wasn't it?

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1118
3️⃣5️⃣
6️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
🕛🔟
Score: 55

This took me longer than usual to do.

Spoiler

I started off okay, took risks with #5 &6 even though I didn't have a lot to go on. 

But then was stumped. Not a clue about #7 and no way to tell if #8 was silly or silky.

Time for another eliminator with K. That sorted out #8 for me, but still no idea about #7.
Finny maybe? Unlikely, but no remaining letters made sense.
Tried it, nope, wasn't finny. Just as I thought.
Took me a while to work it out.😂

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