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]

Daily Octordle #1200

6️⃣7️⃣

8️⃣5️⃣

3️⃣9️⃣

🕚2️⃣

Score: 51

Oh, how I loathe those words where the first letter could be this or this or this…

Spoiler

TRACE

CHASE 🎯🍀

CATCH 🎯

MOULD <- eliminator

BOTCH 🎯

BRIDE 🎯

FEAST 🎯

FREAK 🎯

SHINY 🎯

WISER 💣

RISER 🎯

Daily Octordle #1200

BRIDE 6️⃣7️⃣ FEAST

FREAK 8️⃣5️⃣ BOTCH

CATCH 3️⃣9️⃣ SHINY

RISER 🕚2️⃣ CHASE

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1200

7️⃣4️⃣

6️⃣9️⃣

8️⃣5️⃣

2️⃣🔟

Score: 51

Surprising… I didn’t expect to reach 51, given the paucity of some sections.

And there’s a déjà-vu.

Spoiler

TRACE

CRACK 🎯🍀

SOILY <- eliminator 

THYME 🎯

DAILY 🎯

HAVIC 🎯

TRIPE 🎯🍀 could have been tribe or trite

ABATE 🎯 NOT AGAIN!!!! The same agate/abate dilemma as yesterday’s!

GENUS 🎯

GENRE 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1200

TRIPE 7️⃣4️⃣ THYME

HAVOC 6️⃣9️⃣ GENUS

ABATE 8️⃣5️⃣ DAILY

CRACK 2️⃣🔟 GENRE

Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

---

@countessalmirena wrote A CORRECTION due to typo:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1200

7️⃣4️⃣

6️⃣9️⃣

8️⃣5️⃣

2️⃣🔟

Score: 51

Surprising… I didn’t expect to reach 51, given the paucity of some sections.

And there’s a déjà-vu.

Spoiler

TRACE

CRACK 🎯🍀

SOILY <- eliminator 

THYME 🎯

DAILY 🎯

HAVOC 🎯 <- not HAVIC

TRIPE 🎯🍀 could have been tribe or trite

ABATE 🎯 NOT AGAIN!!!! The same agate/abate dilemma as yesterday’s!

GENUS 🎯

GENRE 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1200

TRIPE 7️⃣4️⃣ THYME

HAVOC 6️⃣9️⃣ GENUS

ABATE 8️⃣5️⃣ DAILY

CRACK 2️⃣🔟 GENRE

Score: 51

---

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,420 3/6

⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

I was tempted to use another eliminator for turn 3, to try to sort out tripe/tribe/trice but decided to go for broke with tripe as that word seems to be having a moment in the puzzles.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1201
🕚9️⃣
5️⃣🕛
4️⃣6️⃣
🔟2️⃣
Score: 59

Spoiler

Bit of a dog's breakfast today, I am afraid.
I started off okay, taking a risk on #8, but then made a mistake on #4. I was looking at what letters I had left after that and could not think what on earth the answer could be. I was looking at impossible combos eg qoist, woist or whatever. Didn't even notice the little J still on the board, which is a mystery as joist is one of their favs. How I overlooked it I don't know, but I did, and went on to use another eliminator (brick) as #2 was bugging me. Quite useful.
Eventually noticed the J and had a light bulb moment, but a bit late in the game.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1201
🕚3️⃣
🕛5️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
Score: 61

Spoiler

I knew early on that the score was not going to be amazing, but after turn 3, I felt there was no spot that had only one answer.
Then towards the end, #1 and #3 were annoying me. muddy/buddy or jolly/lowly, so i used another eliminator (wombs). lowly is another word that is having a moment lately. I was expecting muddy to be the likely answer for #1 though.

[countessalmirena]

Yesterday’s…

Daily Octordle #1201

🕚3️⃣

7️⃣8️⃣

6️⃣4️⃣

9️⃣5️⃣

Score: 53

Spoiler

TRACE

LOGIN <- eliminator

COAST 🎯

SOGGY 🎯

ANGLE 🎯

FLESH 🎯

SHELF 🎯

JOIST 🎯 could have been moist

BRIAR 🎯 déjà-vu

DOWRY 💣

ROWDY 🎯

Daily Octordle #1201

ROWDY 🕚3️⃣ COAST

SHELF 7️⃣8️⃣ JOIST

FLESH 6️⃣4️⃣ SOGGY

BRIAR 9️⃣5️⃣ ANGLE

Score: 53

Daily Extreme Octordle #1201

9️⃣6️⃣

5️⃣🕚

4️⃣2️⃣

7️⃣🔟

Score: 54

Spoiler

TRACE

FARCE 🎯

WHINY <- eliminator

FLAKY 🎯

LOWLY 🎯

NOISY 🎯

TATTY 🎯 🍀

DUMPY 💣

BUDDY 🎯

VERGE 🎯

DUVET 🎯

Too open-ended for comfort… I don’t think there was any way for me to outdo 54.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1201

BUDDY 9️⃣6️⃣ NOISY

LOWLY 5️⃣🕚 DUVET

FLAKY 4️⃣2️⃣ FARCE

TATTY 7️⃣🔟 VERGE

Score: 54

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,421 3/6

🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I was sorely tempted to leap in with a guess at row 2, but it was far more sensible to use an eliminator for the pesky first letter.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,421 3/6

🟨⬛🟩⬛🟨 TRACE
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ FLYBY <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 YEAST

It’s true that the shape needn’t have been _EAST… but that was my gut feeling. Therefore I needed to decide between feast, beast, least, yeast.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,421 5/6

🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟨⬛⬛⬛🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

idiot that I am!
I should have used another eliminator, probably beefy or something like that, but after turn 2 I thought ahhhh... got to be beast or feast and completely missed yeast.😓

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1202
5️⃣2️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
8️⃣🔟
4️⃣7️⃣
Score: 51

However, I was a lot happier with my octordle today, or at least the classic version.

Spoiler

I was able to get off to a good start and one word seemed to lead onto another. I did wonder briefly if #6 might be weepy but then I saw beefy and that is so much more 'their' sort of word, I thought.