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 #1118
3️⃣4️⃣
🕚8️⃣
9️⃣🔟
6️⃣7️⃣
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.

[springyzone]

Octordle sequence, answer #1, does it remind you of anything?😂

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,337 3/6

⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Deciding on the eliminator took me a while.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,337 3/6

⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛ TRACE
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ INDOW <- eliminator 
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 CROOK 🎯

No other possibility arises … After my eliminator, that’s all it could be.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1118
5️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
🕚3️⃣
Score: 53

Oh, this is ridiculous!

Spoiler

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

TRACE
SOILY <- eliminator
SILKY 🎯
MORAL 🎯
MUSIC 🎯
WOMAN 🎯
CHEAP 🎯
HOBBY 🎯
TATTY 🎯 could have been TAFFY
DINGY 💣
NINNY 🎯

Daily Octordle #1118
MUSIC 5️⃣6️⃣ WOMAN
CHEAP 7️⃣4️⃣ MORAL
HOBBY 8️⃣9️⃣ TATTY
NINNY 🕚3️⃣ SILKY
Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1118
6️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
🔟3️⃣
4️⃣🕚
Score: 55

Oh, fatal error!

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
FLUNG 🎯 could have been slung
PROWL 🎯
GULAG 🎯
MOULT 🎯
TOTEM 🎯
DITTY 💣
CHORD 🎯
AHEAD 🎯
BITSY 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1118
MOULT 6️⃣7️⃣ TOTEM
GULAG 5️⃣9️⃣ CHORD
AHEAD 🔟3️⃣ FLUNG
PROWL 4️⃣🕚 BITSY
Score: 55

[springyzone]

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

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1119
🔟8️⃣
4️⃣🕚
9️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
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.

Spoiler

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.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1119
9️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🕛
5️⃣6️⃣
3️⃣🔟
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.

Spoiler

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?

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,340 6/6

⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨
🟨🟨🟨🟩⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟩🟨
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1121
🕚6️⃣
4️⃣🔟
8️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣9️⃣
Score: 58

Needed another eliminator at turn 5