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 Octordle #1147
🕛7️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
🕚3️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
Score: 59

For me, this didn't feel as if it flowed easily, I had to work for it.

I used another eliminator on turn 5.

Spoiler

bumfs. I tend to have runs on eliminators, but I was keen to sort #2 which I thought was likely to be bunch, punch, munch, hunch and I had #8 tagged as maybe harsh or marsh. So it solved those two.

But I made a mistake towards the end on #5. I tried swede. At the time, I was tossing up #1 as wield or yield and thought, aha, swede will tell me one way or another. The wrong way, as it turned out.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1147
7️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
🔟5️⃣
🕚3️⃣
Score: 59

Same score, but seemed to flow easier.

Did use another eliminator at turn 4, which is what set the score back.

I took a risk on my last turn for #7

Spoiler

level or jewel? For me, it could have been either.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1147
7️⃣3️⃣
8️⃣🔟
6️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

Only a few words in, and I was questioning my choice of eliminator.

Spoiler

TRACE
HOUND <- eliminator
HUNCH 🎯
CRASH 🎯
OUTER 🎯 fine up to this point
SEEDY 🎯  had to take a bit of a guess here
YIELD 🎯 I didn’t see this for at least half a minute
USING 🎯
UNDID 🎯
PILOT 🎯

Daily Octordle #1147
YIELD 7️⃣3️⃣ HUNCH
USING 8️⃣🔟 PILOT
SEEDY 6️⃣5️⃣ OUTER
UNDID 9️⃣4️⃣ CRASH
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1147
3️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣🕚
7️⃣6️⃣
🔟4️⃣
Score: 54

One simple error, and I was slapped with two extra points. That word in 4L (your #7, I think) going to be one or the other of two possible words, both likely, both logical.

Spoiler

TRACE
GUILD <- eliminator 
ADAGE 🎯
SUING 🎯
IDIOM 🎯
SNOOP 🎯
ROBOT 🎯
BERET 🎯
LEVEL 💣
JEWEL 🎯
HANDY 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1147
ADAGE 3️⃣5️⃣ IDIOM
BERET 8️⃣🕚 HANDY
ROBOT 7️⃣6️⃣ SNOOP
JEWEL 🔟4️⃣ SUING
Score: 54

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,366 3/6

🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My eliminator resulted in a 50/50 choice.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,366 3/6

🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ TRACE
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨 PINKS <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 STAMP 🎯

It could still have been STAPH.

[countessalmirena]

Oh, I was lucky with today’s Wordle! I mean with regard to the eliminator: it turned a one-yellow-tiled vista of unhelpfulness into a pleasant promenade of certainty.

Wordle 1,367 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

Wordle 1,367 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ TRACE
🟩🟨⬛⬛⬛ LOGIN <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LASSO 🎯

It was the only possible answer I could see.

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1147
3️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣🕚
7️⃣6️⃣
🔟4️⃣
Score: 54

One simple error, and I was slapped with two extra points. That word in 4L (your #7, I think) going to be one or the other of two possible words, both likely, both logical.

Spoiler

TRACE
GUILD <- eliminator 
ADAGE 🎯
SUING 🎯
IDIOM 🎯
SNOOP 🎯
ROBOT 🎯
BERET 🎯
LEVEL 💣
JEWEL 🎯
HANDY 🎯

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Ah, yes, that was where I took my risk yesterday, between level & jewel but fortunately went for jewel first.

At least you were lucky in the classic as I see you were in the same position as I was-could have been wield or yield. Yield is more useful though, with a Y.

My wordle today:

Wordle 1,367 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This too me a little while to figure out.

I could think of several words with the letters but I could see that, one way or another, they were not possible.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1148
7️⃣5️⃣
2️⃣6️⃣
🔟4️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
Score: 51

I was lucky with this as I  was able to guess 2L straight off on my second turn.

But I did need an eliminator (my usual) at turn 3.

I did have 2 bits of good luck though. Took a risk at 3R (6)

Spoiler

fling or cling and I was feeling fling.

But then for #2, I was thinking finer, diner, miner and of course fling cut out the finer and I typed in miner. Then I thought... too risky, you just had a piece of luck last move, too early, need to wait, so I pushed the tab to delete. But I had pushed the wrong one and instead it entered the word. I had a moment of horror as in oh no, but then I saw it WAS the answer, so very lucky indeed.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1148
🕚8️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
🔟7️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
Score: 59

I made a mistake on this one at turn 4 & suffered badly score wise for it.

Spoiler

pithy instead of itchy.
It took me a while to work out #1, even though, by that stage, I didn't have as many letters left. If I had not had the D from #5, I would have fancied gonzo but I think mondo has been out before. It looks familiar anyway.

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

At least you were lucky in the classic as I see you were in the same position as I was-could have been wield or yield. Yield is more useful though, with a Y.

My wordle today:

Wordle 1,367 3/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This too me a little while to figure out.

I could think of several words with the letters but I could see that, one way or another, they were not possible.

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Once I’d played SEEDY yesterday in the classic Octordle and thus knew that word had a “Y”, I could work out that it must be YIELD, so I didn’t have the two-possibility dilemma.

Congratulations with today’s Wordle! You took exactly the right approach.