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 #1148
8๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
3๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
4๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
6๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 52

It was just my usual 52.

 

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TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator 
ANGEL ๐ŸŽฏ
VOCAL ๐ŸŽฏ
VALID ๐ŸŽฏ
SCALD ๐ŸŽฏ
FLING ๐ŸŽฏ
PRUNE ๐ŸŽฏ
MINER ๐ŸŽฏ
ROUSE ๐ŸŽฏ


Daily Octordle #1148
PRUNE 8๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ MINER
ANGEL 3๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ ROUSE
VOCAL 4๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ FLING
SCALD 6๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ VALID
Score: 52

 

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Tricky.

 

Daily Extreme Octordle #1148
8๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
4๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
9๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ
๐Ÿ”Ÿ5๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 52

 

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TRACE
LIONS <- eliminator
VICAR ๐ŸŽฏ
ITCHY ๐ŸŽฏ
LANKY ๐ŸŽฏ
CACAO ๐ŸŽฏ
POSER ๐ŸŽฏ
MONDO ๐ŸŽฏ
UNDUE ๐ŸŽฏ
SOOTH ๐ŸŽฏ


Daily Extreme Octordle #1148
MONDO 8๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ CACAO
ITCHY 4๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ POSER
UNDUE 9๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ VICAR
SOOTH ๐Ÿ”Ÿ5๏ธโƒฃ LANKY
Score: 52

 

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Todayโ€™s

 

   โ€ฆ starting with Extreme Octordle 

 

Daily Extreme Octordle #1149
5๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
4๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
8๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
2๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
Score: 5


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

 

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TRACE
TAKER ๐ŸŽฏ could have been tamer, taper or taxer; I just decided to have at it.
LOGIN <- eliminator (as nothing revealed itself)
DRUID ๐ŸŽฏ
PLAID ๐ŸŽฏ
JUICY ๐ŸŽฏ
FORUM ๐ŸŽฏ The most obvious rock. I wanted to play โ€œfaithโ€ for 3L, but knew it might also be โ€œwaistโ€, 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 โ€œfaithโ€ in or out as a bonus.
WAIST ๐ŸŽฏ - yesโ€ฆ waist, not faith.
TWIST ๐ŸŽฏ
SCANT ๐ŸŽฏ Iโ€™d wanted to play โ€œchantโ€ here, but โ€œscantโ€ was also possible. I left it until last, hoping either H or S would come up in the meantime. Sure enoughโ€ฆ โ€œwaistโ€ showed me the way.


Daily Extreme Octordle #1149
PLAID 5๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ FORUM
DRUID 4๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ SCANT
WAIST 8๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ JUICY
TAKER 2๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ TWIST
Score: 51

 

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Daily Octordle #1149
3๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ
4๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
7๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ
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.

 

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TRACE
SPOIL <- eliminator
SPOOL ๐ŸŽฏ How sickening; I was this close to the actual word with my eliminator.
ADOPT ๐ŸŽฏ
SCOPE ๐ŸŽฏ
EXTRA ๐ŸŽฏ  Gut feeling that this wouldnโ€™t end with โ€œerโ€, so I was thinking outside the box
EXIST ๐ŸŽฏ
SUGAR ๐ŸŽฏ
BLINK ๐ŸŽฏ
EVERY ๐ŸŽฏ


Daily Octordle #1149
SPOOL 3๏ธโƒฃ6๏ธโƒฃ EXTRA
ADOPT 4๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ BLINK
SUGAR 8๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ EVERY
EXIST 7๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ SCOPE
Score: 52

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Wordle 1,368 3/6

๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจ
๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ›โฌ›
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

Another day, another 3 row solutionโ€ฆ

 

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Wordle 1,368 3/6

๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจโฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจ TRACE
๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›โฌ›โฌ› MINKS
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ TIMER ๐ŸŽฏ

 

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Wordle 1,368 4/6

โฌ›โฌ›๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›
โฌ›๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจโฌ›๐ŸŸจ
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉโฌ›๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ
๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ

 

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
4๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
3๏ธโƒฃ๐Ÿ”Ÿ
8๏ธโƒฃ9๏ธโƒฃ
6๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ
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
๐Ÿ”Ÿ๐Ÿ•š
9๏ธโƒฃ3๏ธโƒฃ
4๏ธโƒฃ7๏ธโƒฃ
8๏ธโƒฃ5๏ธโƒฃ
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.๐Ÿคฃ

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