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]

Wordle 1,408 5/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout
Well, that didn't get me far, did it!
fudgy (after debating maybe pricy, not a clue yet as to what the answer is likely to be, so one eliminator seemed as good as the other)
reedy (fancied needy more but knew it could not be that)
weedy

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1189
🕚6️⃣
4️⃣7️⃣
🔟9️⃣
8️⃣3️⃣
Score: 58

Spoiler

Only got ta couple solved before I either had too many choices or couldn't think of an answer so went for another eliminator (bicep). 
Hesitated on my last word (#1) crave or craze.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1189
8️⃣🕚
9️⃣7️⃣
🔟4️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
Score: 58

Spoiler

I felt lucky I could solve #7 at the start as I had #6 tagged as shove or shore so it solved that one for me.
Probably should have guessed #4, but was all tangled up with wondering what #1 & #3 could be, so went with eliminator campy. I had had #8 pegged as likely woman or bogan, so it helped there.

By the end, I was faced with #2 (had initially wondered rumor/juror/furor. Rumor was scrubbed & juror has been out a bit so went with furor and was lucky. 
Lately there always seems to be one last word where I have no logical way of knowing which it is so have to guess.

[countessalmirena]

Catching up …

There was only one guess that required luck; the rest was straightforward.

Daily Octordle #1187
6️⃣7️⃣
2️⃣8️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣🔟
Score: 51

Spoiler

TRACE
ARGUE 🎯
LIONS <- eliminator
INTRO 🎯
RUSTY 🎯
LORRY 🎯
STEEL 🎯
BREAD 🎯🍀 could have been break, bream, dread, dream, freak, wreak
DEPTH 🎯
BRIBE 🎯

Daily Octordle #1187
LORRY 6️⃣7️⃣ STEEL
ARGUE 2️⃣8️⃣ BREAD
INTRO 4️⃣9️⃣ DEPTH
RUSTY 5️⃣🔟 BRIBE
Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1187
4️⃣9️⃣
🔟2️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Score: 51

This was … well, it seemed intractable. I thought it would be a dreadful final scene, with toys - er, letters - chucked out of the cot in frustration. I don’t quite know how it’s only 51.

Spoiler

TRACE
GRATE 🎯🍀 could have been irate, prate
LOINS <- eliminator
KOALA 🎯🍀 could have been woald
ATLAS 🎯
OLLIE 🎯 This has only popped up once before, if I recall correctly - skateboarding trick thingy?
UNSET 🎯
VIVID 🎯 I had only one letter: “i”; but I thought there must be 2; could have been bifid but try as I might, I really couldn’t see any other option from the remaining letters. I spent a long time on this and had almost decided to try “raven” for 2L first, until I realised that this word must almost certainly be vivid
DRIVE 🎯
RAMEN 🎯 just as well that I didn’t play “raven”

See what a weird Octordle this was…?

Daily Extreme Octordle #1187
KOALA 4️⃣9️⃣ DRIVE
RAMEN 🔟2️⃣ GRATE
VIVID 8️⃣5️⃣ ATLAS
UNSET 7️⃣6️⃣ OLLIE
Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1188
🔟9️⃣
4️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣2️⃣
Score: 51

Quite a lot of luck shone like stray sunbeams upon me with this.

Spoiler

TRACE
IRATE 🎯🍀 Again, the same possibilities! It could have been prate or grate, but I plumped for irate and it was correct.
FUNGO <- eliminator
FILET 🎯🍀 could have been feist or the US spelling of foetid
ROOST 🎯
VINYL 🎯
LOYAL 🎯
POUTY 🎯
GRAZE 🎯🍀 could have been grade
HEDGE 🎯🍀 could have been wedge

Daily Octordle #1188
HEDGE 🔟9️⃣ GRAZE
FILET 4️⃣6️⃣ VINYL
LOYAL 7️⃣5️⃣ ROOST
POUTY 8️⃣2️⃣ IRATE
Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1188
6️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
🔟9️⃣
Score: 52

Not extraordinarily difficult, but it wasn’t a walk in the park, either.

Spoiler

TRACE
MOULD <- eliminator
AMUSE 🎯
SCRAP 🎯
SAVVY 🎯🍀 could have been saggy
HAPPY 🎯
PUFFY 🎯
RECON 🎯 ugh - hate this
TWEEN 🎯
WHORL 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1188
HAPPY 6️⃣4️⃣ SCRAP
RECON 8️⃣5️⃣ SAVVY
AMUSE 3️⃣7️⃣ PUFFY
WHORL 🔟9️⃣ TWEEN
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1189
3️⃣2️⃣
🕚9️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 50

Some good luck, and some bad luck. Pffft.

Spoiler

TRACE
TRIBE 🎯🍀 could have been trite, tripe, trove, trope
CRAZE 🎯🍀 could have been crane, crave, crake, **bleep**e
BLACK 🎯
SPICY 🎯💣 … bad luck
JUICY 🎯
FLIRT 🎯
CHUMP 🎯
LOBBY 🎯
GOOSE 💣 bad luck
NOOSE 🎯

At least my early correct guesses offset the later wrong guesses.

Daily Octordle #1189
CRAZE 3️⃣2️⃣ TRIBE
NOOSE 🕚9️⃣ LOBBY
BLACK 4️⃣8️⃣ CHUMP
JUICY 6️⃣7️⃣ FLIRT
Score: 50

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1189
8️⃣🕚
6️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
Score: 53

I lilypad-leapt my way through this, with one miss.

Spoiler

TRACE
SOILY <- eliminator
SCALY 🎯
LYING 🎯
SANER 🎯
MONTY 🎯
WOMAN 🎯🍀 could have been nomad
POUTY 🎯🍀 could have been potty, botty, dotty
SHOVE 🎯
JUROR 💣
FUROR 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1189
POUTY 8️⃣🕚 FUROR
MONTY 6️⃣3️⃣ SCALY
LYING 4️⃣9️⃣ SHOVE
SANER 5️⃣7️⃣ WOMAN
Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,408 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I didn’t cover myself with glory with today’s Wordle. However, it was a logical progression and I should be sufficiently pleased to grant myself a cup of coffee.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,408 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨 TRACE
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩 DOILY <- eliminator
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 SEEDY 💣
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WEEDY 🎯🍀 could still have been NEEDY