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 #1198
3️⃣4️⃣
🔟5️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

Holy Jack-in-the-box!

I didn’t think I’d get through this without a second eliminator. My starter and eliminator didn’t really give me much… but with a bit of thinking it through, and the knowledge of which letters were still left, it worked out.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
TOTEM 🎯🍀 could have token, toned, towed
BURST 🎯🍀 could have been wurst &c
DITTY 🎯🎯 could have been witty
WHITE 🎯
DILLY 🎯
SHALL 🎯
FLASK 🎯
FUNKY 🎯

Daily Octordle #1198
TOTEM 3️⃣4️⃣ BURST
FUNKY 🔟5️⃣ DITTY
FLASK 9️⃣6️⃣ WHITE
DILLY 7️⃣8️⃣ SHALL
Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1198
4️⃣3️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
🔟7️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
Score: 52

Fast and friendly - I wizzed through this.

Spoiler

TRACE
SOILY <- eliminator 
HYENA 🎯
ANNOY 🎯
SHOWY 🎯
POISE 🎯
MIRTH 🎯 could have been birth or firth o girth but my gut instinct said “mirth”
PILAF 🎯
WHEEL 🎯
VITAL 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1198
ANNOY 4️⃣3️⃣ HYENA
SHOWY 5️⃣6️⃣ POISE
VITAL 🔟7️⃣ MIRTH
PILAF 8️⃣9️⃣ WHEEL
Score: 52

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Re your extreme… gumbo was the perfect second eliminator in the circumstances.

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Daily Octordle #1199

6️⃣7️⃣

🔟8️⃣

5️⃣4️⃣

9️⃣3️⃣

Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE 

SOILY <- eliminator

THYME 🎯

CHASM 🎯

CHORD 🎯

METRO 🎯

ALIKE 🎯 🍀 could have been alive

FRIAR 🎯 🍀 could have been briar

ABATE 🎯 🍀 could have been agate

GLARE 🎯

I knew 2L (#4) was _LARE, but at the time it could have been flare, glare, or blare. I left 2L in the hope of getting further clues along the way. As it was, I still had to take 50/50 chances with friar and abate.

Daily Octordle #1199

METRO 6️⃣7️⃣ ALIKE

GLARE 🔟8️⃣ FRIAR

CHORD 5️⃣4️⃣ CHASM

ABATE 9️⃣3️⃣ THYME

Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1199

6️⃣🔟

5️⃣4️⃣

8️⃣7️⃣

9️⃣2️⃣

Score: 51

This was as easy as pouring syrup in a pancake.

Spoiler

TRACE

TASTE 🎯

GHOUL <- eliminator

LURCH 🎯

CAROB 🎯

CHIRP 🎯

OPTIC 🎯

BROWN 🎯

FREED 🎯

FEMUR 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1199

CHIRP 6️⃣🔟 FEMUR

CAROB 5️⃣4️⃣ LURCH

BROWN 8️⃣7️⃣ OPTIC

FREED 9️⃣2️⃣ TASTE

Score: 51

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Wordle 1,418 3/6

⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛

🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

No issues.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,418 3/6
⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ TRACE

🟩🟩⬛⬛🟨 MANIC <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 MACHO 🎯

It could still have been macaw.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,419 4/6

🟨🟨⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

alien/shout/cramp.

I can't remember exactly why as I did it this morning, but I had a few words in mind. 

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1200
8️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
🕚4️⃣
Score: 53

Because I did it hours ago & didn't have time to post then, I forget some of it but I do know it seemed fairly easy for most of it.

Spoiler

I took a risk with #8 but it worked out.
It's good having the photo to look at, it comes back to me.
I needed another eliminator at the end-was it wiser/miser or riser. I actually fancied wiser, but the eliminator, wormy, sorted it out.

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1200
7️⃣8️⃣
🕚3️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
🔟4️⃣
Score: 57

Spoiler

The first thing I noticed was #5 agate or abate but it had been sorted by the time I got to it.

They really are into recycling words though.

Campy was an eliminator and just as well as I came very close to trying theme for #2 and in fact typed it in when I went to solve this word but thank goodness didn't hit the enter tab.

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Wordle 1,419 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

With only an “A” revealed after the opener, I thought I’d be in for a difficult time. Fortunately, the eliminator made up for the previous lack of information.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,419 3/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ TRACE

⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 SOILY <- eliminator

🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 BALMY