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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Daily Extreme Octordle #1118
3๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ•š8๏ธโƒฃ
9๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
6๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
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.

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Octordle sequence, answer #1, does it remind you of anything?๐Ÿ˜‚

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Wordle 1,337 3/6

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

Deciding on the eliminator took me a while.

 

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Wordle 1,337 3/6

โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ› TRACE
โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ› INDOW <- eliminator 
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ CROOK ๐ŸŽฏ


No other possibility arises โ€ฆ After my eliminator, thatโ€™s all it could be.

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Daily Octordle #1118
5๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
7๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ•š3๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 53

Oh, this is ridiculous!

 

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Enough doubles-come-triples to ruin a tennis tournament.

TRACE
SOILY <- eliminator
SILKY ๐ŸŽฏ
MORAL ๐ŸŽฏ
MUSIC ๐ŸŽฏ
WOMAN ๐ŸŽฏ
CHEAP ๐ŸŽฏ
HOBBY ๐ŸŽฏ
TATTY ๐ŸŽฏ could have been TAFFY
DINGY ๐Ÿ’ฃ
NINNY ๐ŸŽฏ


Daily Octordle #1118
MUSIC 5๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ WOMAN
CHEAP 7๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ MORAL
HOBBY 8๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ TATTY
NINNY ๐Ÿ•š3๏ธโƒฃ SILKY
Score: 53

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1118
6๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
5๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ”Ÿ3๏ธโƒฃ
4๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ•š
Score: 55

Oh, fatal error!

 

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TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
FLUNG ๐ŸŽฏ could have been slung
PROWL ๐ŸŽฏ
GULAG ๐ŸŽฏ
MOULT ๐ŸŽฏ
TOTEM ๐ŸŽฏ
DITTY ๐Ÿ’ฃ
CHORD ๐ŸŽฏ
AHEAD ๐ŸŽฏ
BITSY ๐ŸŽฏ


Daily Extreme Octordle #1118
MOULT 6๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ TOTEM
GULAG 5๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ CHORD
AHEAD ๐Ÿ”Ÿ3๏ธโƒฃ FLUNG
PROWL 4๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ•š BITSY
Score: 55

 

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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

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

 

It doesn't feel like a fresh word, it pops up from time to time in Octordle.

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Daily Octordle #1119
๐Ÿ”Ÿ8๏ธโƒฃ
4๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ•š
9๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
6๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ
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.

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flint instead of glint for word 3.
In hindsight, I should have solved #6 or 7 because they were reasonably obvious after turn 2, had I concentrated on them instead.
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Daily Extreme Octordle #1119
9๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ•›
5๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
3๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
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.

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crumb. Quite helpful. I had originally had #5 down as likely to be crush or brush-back to the drawing board.

Made a mistake at the very end. fudge instead of judge. But fudge is often one of my eliminators (or fudgy) so how could I not try it?
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Wordle 1,340 6/6

โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ
๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›
โฌ›โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจ
โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›
โฌ›๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›๐ŸŸฉ
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

 

By the end, there wasn't much else there could be, but unusual word choice, I thought.

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Daily Octordle #1121
๐Ÿ•š6๏ธโƒฃ
4๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
8๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ
7๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 58

 

Needed another eliminator at turn 5

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