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 🤣

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,412 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛🟨
🟨⬛🟩🟨🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It was quite a good start; today’s Wordle didn’t play coy, but gave me plenty of material with which to play.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,412 3/6

🟨⬛🟨⬛🟨 TRACE
🟨⬛🟩🟨🟩 PLEAT <- eliminator 
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ADEPT 🎯

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1193
6️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🔟
2️⃣5️⃣
Score: 51

Déjà-vu, weren’t we just there????

Spoiler

TRACE
SAUCE 🎯🍀 Well, it could have been “dance”…
DOILY  -> eliminator 
LASSO 🎯 déjà vu
OUNCE 🎯
THONG 🎯
KOALA 🎯 déjà vu
DENIM 🎯
BONEY 🎯 déjà vu
APRON 🎯

Daily Octordle #1193
THONG 6️⃣7️⃣ KOALA
LASSO 4️⃣8️⃣ DENIM
BONEY 9️⃣🔟 APRON
SAUCE 2️⃣5️⃣ OUNCE
Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1193
🔟6️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

A delightful Extreme Octordle in many respects, although there was an odd spelling and a word that seems a tad odd: however, it was a completely logical “couldn’t be anything else” sort of Octordle.

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <- eliminator
CRISP 🎯
PIECE 🎯
FLICK 🎯
PINUP 🎯
FADER 🎯  a bit strange, isn’t it?
SHADY 🎯
HUMUS 🎯 weird spelling - but nothing else would fit 
JOIST 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1193
JOIST 🔟6️⃣ PINUP
FLICK 5️⃣7️⃣ FADER
HUMUS 9️⃣3️⃣ CRISP
PIECE 4️⃣8️⃣ SHADY
Score: 52

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,413 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

It was a straight forward choice for me by turn 3, whose or chose. If there was anything else then fortunately I did not see it.

[springyzone]

What's with the octordle puzzle makers today?

I suspect they decided to give us a day off or at least a boost.

The classic and extreme were both the easiest I have ever done and that includes the time I got a score under 50.

Easy in that yes, I started with my usual eliminators but after that, the path was clear, one leap to another. No worrying about multiple choices. Done in seconds. For me, a countess type of day.🤣

Daily Extreme Octordle #1194
6️⃣9️⃣
🔟4️⃣
5️⃣8️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

Daily Octordle #1194
🔟3️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1194
7️⃣🔟
6️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

I made a few little leaps but they were all onto lily pads of inevitable logic.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
KNOCK 🎯
STICK 🎯
CLOUD 🎯
CLAMP 🎯
PRIDE 🎯
DUMPY 🎯
FIERY 🎯
HAVEN 🎯

Daily Octordle #1194
PRIDE 7️⃣🔟 HAVEN
CLAMP 6️⃣5️⃣ CLOUD
STICK 4️⃣3️⃣ KNOCK
FIERY 9️⃣8️⃣ DUMPY
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1194
9️⃣5️⃣
🔟8️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣2️⃣
Score: 50

Everything started off nicely, but I did need an eliminator at row 4.

Spoiler

TRACE
CROAK 🎯 straight in with it
THORN 🎯
FLUID <- eliminator
FOLLY 🎯
RUSTY 🎯
CLIFF 🎯
HEIST 🎯
TESTY 🎯
ANNEX 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1194
TESTY 9️⃣5️⃣ FOLLY
ANNEX 🔟8️⃣ HEIST
RUSTY 6️⃣7️⃣ CLIFF
THORN 3️⃣2️⃣ CROAK
Score: 50

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,413 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

New eliminator … which narrowed things down nicely.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,413 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 TRACE
🟨🟩🟩⬛⬛ SHOGI -> eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 WHOSE 🎯

[springyzone]

I have to admire you, countess, I have never heard of shogi in my life. 

Wordle 1,414 4/6

🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟨🟩🟨⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout/tasty/patsy
I was a bit taken aback after turn 3 & I saw the T had to go in the middle. I really anticipated -sty ending.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1195
9️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣🔟
6️⃣4️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

Not quite as inruitive (for me) as yesterday, but I got there.

Spoiler

The first few turns were easy but I felt a bit wobbly on turn 6, with tried. Then again towards the end, I hestitated on #1, gauge or mauve.  Chose gauge as it has been out before, they like that word, plus I wanted to try out G . I was actually, at one stage, debating budge as eliminator but glad I stuck with trying to work it out.