on โ27-01-2022 01:45 AM
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 ๐คฃ
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on โ17-03-2025 11:44 AM
Daily Octordle #1148
8๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
3๏ธโฃ๐
4๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
6๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
Score: 52
It was just my usual 52.
TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
ANGEL ๐ฏ
VOCAL ๐ฏ
VALID ๐ฏ
SCALD ๐ฏ
FLING ๐ฏ
PRUNE ๐ฏ
MINER ๐ฏ
ROUSE ๐ฏ
Daily Octordle #1148
PRUNE 8๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ MINER
ANGEL 3๏ธโฃ๐ ROUSE
VOCAL 4๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ FLING
SCALD 6๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ VALID
Score: 52
on โ17-03-2025 05:28 PM
Tricky.
Daily Extreme Octordle #1148
8๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
9๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ
๐5๏ธโฃ
Score: 52
TRACE
LIONS <- eliminator
VICAR ๐ฏ
ITCHY ๐ฏ
LANKY ๐ฏ
CACAO ๐ฏ
POSER ๐ฏ
MONDO ๐ฏ
UNDUE ๐ฏ
SOOTH ๐ฏ
Daily Extreme Octordle #1148
MONDO 8๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ CACAO
ITCHY 4๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ POSER
UNDUE 9๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ VICAR
SOOTH ๐5๏ธโฃ LANKY
Score: 52
on โ18-03-2025 07:56 AM
Todayโs
โฆ starting with Extreme Octordle
Daily Extreme Octordle #1149
5๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ๐
8๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
2๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
Score: 5
This was filled with sirens trying to lure me onto the rocks. If Iโd just leapt onto guesses that had a good chance of being right, Iโd have come to grief. I played carefully, solving words that looked far more difficult to guess than others which looked easier โฆ but which actually would have fooled me into a wrong choice.
TRACE
TAKER ๐ฏ could have been tamer, taper or taxer; I just decided to have at it.
LOGIN <- eliminator (as nothing revealed itself)
DRUID ๐ฏ
PLAID ๐ฏ
JUICY ๐ฏ
FORUM ๐ฏ The most obvious rock. I wanted to play โfaithโ for 3L, but knew it might also be โwaistโ, 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 โfaithโ in or out as a bonus.
WAIST ๐ฏ - yesโฆ waist, not faith.
TWIST ๐ฏ
SCANT ๐ฏ Iโd wanted to play โchantโ here, but โscantโ was also possible. I left it until last, hoping either H or S would come up in the meantime. Sure enoughโฆ โwaistโ showed me the way.
Daily Extreme Octordle #1149
PLAID 5๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ FORUM
DRUID 4๏ธโฃ๐ SCANT
WAIST 8๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ JUICY
TAKER 2๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ TWIST
Score: 51
on โ18-03-2025 08:16 AM
Daily Octordle #1149
3๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ๐
7๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
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.
TRACE
SPOIL <- eliminator
SPOOL ๐ฏ How sickening; I was this close to the actual word with my eliminator.
ADOPT ๐ฏ
SCOPE ๐ฏ
EXTRA ๐ฏ Gut feeling that this wouldnโt end with โerโ, so I was thinking outside the box
EXIST ๐ฏ
SUGAR ๐ฏ
BLINK ๐ฏ
EVERY ๐ฏ
Daily Octordle #1149
SPOOL 3๏ธโฃ6๏ธโฃ EXTRA
ADOPT 4๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ BLINK
SUGAR 8๏ธโฃ๐ EVERY
EXIST 7๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ SCOPE
Score: 52
on โ18-03-2025 08:23 AM
on โ18-03-2025 06:48 PM
Wordle 1,368 4/6
โฌโฌ๐จ๐ฉโฌ
โฌ๐จ๐จโฌ๐จ
๐ฉ๐ฉโฌ๐ฉ๐ฉ
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ
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.
on โ18-03-2025 06:59 PM
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
4๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
3๏ธโฃ๐
8๏ธโฃ9๏ธโฃ
6๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
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
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9๏ธโฃ3๏ธโฃ
4๏ธโฃ7๏ธโฃ
8๏ธโฃ5๏ธโฃ
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.๐คฃ