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 โ15-02-2025 07:55 AM
Daily Extreme Octordle #1118
3๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ
๐8๏ธโฃ
9๏ธโฃ๐
6๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
Score: 58
The mysterious word for me in this one was #3, couldn't get a sense for what it might be, but as soon as I exposed a certain letter when I solved #6, the light dawned.
on โ15-02-2025 08:12 AM
Octordle sequence, answer #1, does it remind you of anything?๐
on โ15-02-2025 11:52 AM
Wordle 1,337 3/6
โฌ๐ฉโฌ๐จโฌ
โฌโฌโฌ๐ฉโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
Deciding on the eliminator took me a while.
Wordle 1,337 3/6
โฌ๐ฉโฌ๐จโฌ TRACE
โฌโฌโฌ๐ฉโฌ INDOW <- eliminator
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ CROOK ๐ฏ
No other possibility arises โฆ After my eliminator, thatโs all it could be.
on โ15-02-2025 12:10 PM
Daily Octordle #1118
5๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
7๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
๐3๏ธโฃ
Score: 53
Oh, this is ridiculous!
Enough doubles-come-triples to ruin a tennis tournament.
TRACE
SOILY <- eliminator
SILKY ๐ฏ
MORAL ๐ฏ
MUSIC ๐ฏ
WOMAN ๐ฏ
CHEAP ๐ฏ
HOBBY ๐ฏ
TATTY ๐ฏ could have been TAFFY
DINGY ๐ฃ
NINNY ๐ฏ
Daily Octordle #1118
MUSIC 5๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ WOMAN
CHEAP 7๏ธโฃ4๏ธโฃ MORAL
HOBBY 8๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ TATTY
NINNY ๐3๏ธโฃ SILKY
Score: 53
on โ15-02-2025 12:24 PM
Daily Extreme Octordle #1118
6๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
5๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
๐3๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ๐
Score: 55
Oh, fatal error!
TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
FLUNG ๐ฏ could have been slung
PROWL ๐ฏ
GULAG ๐ฏ
MOULT ๐ฏ
TOTEM ๐ฏ
DITTY ๐ฃ
CHORD ๐ฏ
AHEAD ๐ฏ
BITSY ๐ฏ
Daily Extreme Octordle #1118
MOULT 6๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ TOTEM
GULAG 5๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ CHORD
AHEAD ๐3๏ธโฃ FLUNG
PROWL 4๏ธโฃ๐ BITSY
Score: 55
on โ16-02-2025 01:25 AM
Well, here I am at 1.20am and do you know why?
I had an early nap but then woke up and decided I should bake my daughter's birthday cake tonight instead of in the morning.
Caramel mud cake.
So I got all the ingredients ready, started, had noticed it needed an hour, only to read the fatal last bit-'then cover with foil and cook for another 55 minutes to an hour!"
But I was already committed.
So here I am, on the last lap, sitting with the timer next to me.
Going to google a different recipe for the caramel buttercream icing while I am here, but making that is a job for the morning.
Meanwhile, I did a few of the games.
Wordle 1,338 3/6
๐จโฌโฌ๐จโฌ
๐ฉโฌโฌ๐จโฌ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
It doesn't feel like a fresh word, it pops up from time to time in Octordle.
on โ16-02-2025 01:31 AM
Daily Octordle #1119
๐8๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ๐
9๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
6๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
Score: 60
I kinow the score is pretty ordinary but this was actually an easy game, finished it in a minute or two.
My only problem was I took a risk on turn 3 which didn't pay off.
on โ16-02-2025 01:38 AM
Daily Extreme Octordle #1119
9๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ๐
5๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
3๏ธโฃ๐
Score: 60
This isn't hard either but it does throw up some answers I had not initially thought of.
I started solving on turn 3 but used an eliminator on turn 4.
on โ18-02-2025 07:42 AM
Wordle 1,340 6/6
โฌโฌ๐จ๐จ๐จ
๐จ๐จ๐จ๐ฉโฌ
โฌโฌโฌ๐ฉ๐จ
โฌโฌ๐จโฌโฌ
โฌ๐ฉ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
By the end, there wasn't much else there could be, but unusual word choice, I thought.
on โ18-02-2025 07:44 AM
Daily Octordle #1121
๐6๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ๐
8๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ
7๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
Score: 58
Needed another eliminator at turn 5