WORDLE - anyone else trying the daily online word game?

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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 🤣

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Daily Octordle #1148
8️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣🔟
4️⃣7️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

It was just my usual 52.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator 
ANGEL 🎯
VOCAL 🎯
VALID 🎯
SCALD 🎯
FLING 🎯
PRUNE 🎯
MINER 🎯
ROUSE 🎯

Daily Octordle #1148
PRUNE 8️⃣9️⃣ MINER
ANGEL 3️⃣🔟 ROUSE
VOCAL 4️⃣7️⃣ FLING
SCALD 6️⃣5️⃣ VALID
Score: 52

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Tricky.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1148
8️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣3️⃣
🔟5️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
LIONS <- eliminator
VICAR 🎯
ITCHY 🎯
LANKY 🎯
CACAO 🎯
POSER 🎯
MONDO 🎯
UNDUE 🎯
SOOTH 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1148
MONDO 8️⃣6️⃣ CACAO
ITCHY 4️⃣7️⃣ POSER
UNDUE 9️⃣3️⃣ VICAR
SOOTH 🔟5️⃣ LANKY
Score: 52

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Today’s

   … starting with Extreme Octordle 

Daily Extreme Octordle #1149
5️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣🔟
8️⃣6️⃣
2️⃣9️⃣
Score: 5

This was filled with sirens trying to lure me onto the rocks. If I’d just leapt onto guesses that had a good chance of being right, I’d have come to grief. I played carefully, solving words that looked far more difficult to guess than others which looked easier … but which actually would have fooled me into a wrong choice.

Spoiler

TRACE
TAKER 🎯 could have been tamer, taper or taxer; I just decided to have at it.
LOGIN <- eliminator (as nothing revealed itself)
DRUID 🎯
PLAID 🎯
JUICY 🎯
FORUM 🎯 The most obvious rock. I wanted to play “faith” for 3L, but knew it might also be “waist”, so I looked at other panels and saw that 1R must be forum (unless the word was decidedly more obscure than I thought likely). That would rule “faith” in or out as a bonus.
WAIST 🎯 - yes… waist, not faith.
TWIST 🎯
SCANT 🎯 I’d wanted to play “chant” here, but “scant” was also possible. I left it until last, hoping either H or S would come up in the meantime. Sure enough… “waist” showed me the way.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1149
PLAID 5️⃣7️⃣ FORUM
DRUID 4️⃣🔟 SCANT
WAIST 8️⃣6️⃣ JUICY
TAKER 2️⃣9️⃣ TWIST
Score: 51

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Daily Octordle #1149
3️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣🔟
7️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

I had 4 yellows for 1R after my starter, but this time the odds against guessing correctly were too high. I had to play an eliminator.

Again, though, it was necessary to play with great caution.

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <- eliminator
SPOOL 🎯 How sickening; I was this close to the actual word with my eliminator.
ADOPT 🎯
SCOPE 🎯
EXTRA 🎯  Gut feeling that this wouldn’t end with “er”, so I was thinking outside the box
EXIST 🎯
SUGAR 🎯
BLINK 🎯
EVERY 🎯

Daily Octordle #1149
SPOOL 3️⃣6️⃣ EXTRA
ADOPT 4️⃣9️⃣ BLINK
SUGAR 8️⃣🔟 EVERY
EXIST 7️⃣5️⃣ SCOPE
Score: 52

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Wordle 1,368 3/6

🟩🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Another day, another 3 row solution…

Spoiler

Wordle 1,368 3/6

🟩🟨⬛⬛🟨 TRACE
🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛ MINKS
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 TIMER 🎯

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Wordle 1,368 4/6

⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛
⬛🟨🟨⬛🟨
🟩🟩⬛🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Straight after turn 1, I had a feeling the yellow would be in second place & the word would likely end in R.

At first, all I could think of was viper, but then.. tiger? diver? fiber? (I know, I know) etc

So second word was drift. Doesn't cover everything but it gave me some hints. I jumped on tiger, unfortunately.

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I just gave myself a scare with octordle as I did it a few minutes ago & just went to copy the link and up came a blank board. NO!!!! I got 52 for that game and wouldn't trust myself to get it again, but luckily I realised I was in Chill (which I have not done) and there were the results under classic. So all is well with the world.

Daily Octordle #1149
4️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣🔟
8️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣5️⃣
Score: 52

On the whole, now I look back on it, it was not hard but I did take a bit of a guess on turn 3 for #3 (2L)

I could see it could easily be abort or adopt but I thought the latter more likely.

Then the words more or less fell into place.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1149
🔟🕚
9️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
Score: 57

I am happy with today's score, anything under 60 is a good day, as far as sI am concerned, but I did get caught out on this.

On #6, about turn 6, I was convinced it was QUICK. I was shocked to see it was wrong. What else could it be? I thought, can't be juice, no E. Then it hit me and I got it.

Quick wasn't a total waste though as I had been fancying TAMER for #7. I was convinced that would probably be the answer, but quick saved me a mistake there.

I guess I was always fated to make one error, one way or another.🤣

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,370 4/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

After my 1st 2 turns, I was left contemplating- maybe taste, waste, paste, baste, caste?
So my 3rd word was an eliminator (bicep) and I got lucky. I could well have taken all 6 to solve today.

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Daily Octordle #1151
🔟6️⃣
🕚4️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
Score: 56

Spoiler

For my 7th word, I used an eliminator (magic) because it was a possible answer for #1, plus I didn't feel I could move on till I had sorted G/C in a couple of other places.
At least I got LEVEL right for #3. I thought of jewel but we had this exact scenario a couple of days back (or at least i did)

Daily Extreme Octordle #1151
3️⃣4️⃣
🟥🔟
7️⃣🕚
5️⃣6️⃣
Score: 59

Spoiler

As you can see, I missed one here. 
I was going okay till about turn 8, when I felt I needed another eliminator (I used moved) as I really needed to sort out some consonants. My ideal eliminator would have been a word such as VMZCDB🤣 
As it turned out, moved helped but not enough.  
My next move was wrong-I tried price for #4. Wrong.
Then for my last turn, having at least eliminated paper, paver and pacer for #3, I tried payer. Wrong again. Should have known parer as they have tried that stunt once before & I fell for it that time too. Just didn't think of it today.