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 Octordle #1147
๐Ÿ•›7๏ธโƒฃ
5๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ•š3๏ธโƒฃ
9๏ธโƒฃ8๏ธโƒฃ
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.

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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.
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Daily Extreme Octordle #1147
7๏ธโƒฃ8๏ธโƒฃ
9๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ”Ÿ5๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ•š3๏ธโƒฃ
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

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level or jewel? For me, it could have been either.
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Daily Octordle #1147
7๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
6๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ
9๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 52

 

 

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

 

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TRACE
HOUND <- eliminator
HUNCH ๐ŸŽฏ
CRASH ๐ŸŽฏ
OUTER ๐ŸŽฏ fine up to this point
SEEDY ๐ŸŽฏ  had to take a bit of a guess here
YIELD ๐ŸŽฏ I didnโ€™t see this for at least half a minute
USING ๐ŸŽฏ
UNDID ๐ŸŽฏ
PILOT ๐ŸŽฏ


Daily Octordle #1147
YIELD 7๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ HUNCH
USING 8๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ PILOT
SEEDY 6๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ OUTER
UNDID 9๏ธโƒฃ4๏ธโƒฃ CRASH
Score: 52

 

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1147
3๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ•š
7๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ”Ÿ4๏ธโƒฃ
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.

 

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TRACE
GUILD <- eliminator 
ADAGE ๐ŸŽฏ
SUING ๐ŸŽฏ
IDIOM ๐ŸŽฏ
SNOOP ๐ŸŽฏ
ROBOT ๐ŸŽฏ
BERET ๐ŸŽฏ
LEVEL ๐Ÿ’ฃ
JEWEL ๐ŸŽฏ
HANDY ๐ŸŽฏ


Daily Extreme Octordle #1147
ADAGE 3๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ IDIOM
BERET 8๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ•š HANDY
ROBOT 7๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ SNOOP
JEWEL ๐Ÿ”Ÿ4๏ธโƒฃ SUING
Score: 54

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Wordle 1,366 3/6

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

My eliminator resulted in a 50/50 choice.

 

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Wordle 1,366 3/6

๐ŸŸจโฌ›๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ› TRACE
๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจ PINKS <- eliminator
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ STAMP ๐ŸŽฏ


It could still have been STAPH.

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Oh, I was lucky with todayโ€™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

โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›โฌ›
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

 

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Wordle 1,367 3/6

โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ› TRACE
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›โฌ› LOGIN <- eliminator
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ LASSO ๐ŸŽฏ


It was the only possible answer I could see.

 

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1147
3๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ•š
7๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ”Ÿ4๏ธโƒฃ
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.

 

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TRACE
GUILD <- eliminator 
ADAGE ๐ŸŽฏ
SUING ๐ŸŽฏ
IDIOM ๐ŸŽฏ
SNOOP ๐ŸŽฏ
ROBOT ๐ŸŽฏ
BERET ๐ŸŽฏ
LEVEL ๐Ÿ’ฃ
JEWEL ๐ŸŽฏ
HANDY ๐ŸŽฏ

 


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

๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›โฌ›
๐ŸŸจโฌ›๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

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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Daily Octordle #1148
7๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ
2๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ”Ÿ4๏ธโƒฃ
9๏ธโƒฃ8๏ธโƒฃ
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)

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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.


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Daily Extreme Octordle #1148
๐Ÿ•š8๏ธโƒฃ
5๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ”Ÿ7๏ธโƒฃ
3๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 59

 

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

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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.
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