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 #1204
4️⃣8️⃣
6️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣🔟
Score: 52

I HATED this!

Frankly, my score should be worse. I was full of uncertainty and thinking of using an eliminator… but I could see is probably another eliminator after that, so I thought, “Let’s just make a guess and wear the result”. 

It was pure luck that those three particular guesses were correct. Luck, not logic … or only a modicum of logic.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
LOAMY 🎯 all right, this was logic
RUSTY 🎯 also logic
RISKY 🎯 and this one
STOUT 🎯🍀 could have been spout or shout
ADOBE 🎯🍀 could have been adobe, above
BRIBE 🎯 
HALVE 🎯
FOUND 🎯🍀 could have been pound, wound

Daily Octordle #1204
RUSTY 4️⃣8️⃣ BRIBE
STOUT 6️⃣9️⃣ HALVE
LOAMY 3️⃣5️⃣ RISKY
ABODE 7️⃣🔟 FOUND
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1204
7️⃣6️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
4️⃣🕚
8️⃣3️⃣
Score: 53

Hmm. This was also a non-favourite as it felt odd… too full of repeated letters.

Spoiler

TRACE
SPOIL <- eliminator
COPSE 🎯
PUPPY 🎯
HUSKY 🎯🍀 could have been mushy or bushy
FUSSY 🎯
GEEKY 🎯
BEADY 🎯
VENUE 🎯
NODDY 💣
DOWDY 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1204
GEEKY 7️⃣6️⃣ FUSSY
HUSKY 5️⃣9️⃣ VENUE
PUPPY 4️⃣🕚 DOWDY
BEADY 8️⃣3️⃣ COPSE
Score: 53

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,424 4/6

🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout
Hesitated before I tried shout but I could think of words like amuse/abate/adore etc so in the end, I went with it in order to at least rule out any other vowels. In hindsight, should have used spout or scout though as H was not as likely.
Third word was price, which made me think the pattern was probably a_are.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1205
4️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
9️⃣5️⃣
🔟8️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

Turn 3 was a risk. In hidsight, I probably should have guessed #1, but I was looking at #3 and thinking amuse/abuse and #6 and thinking wheat/cheat.
I sort of fancied wheat actually but W isn't as useful as C if I got it wrong, so i left it and went with amuse.
After that, it was just dominoes and reasonably clear, not that risky.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1205
9️⃣🕛
6️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣🔟
3️⃣7️⃣
Score: 56

Spoiler

I thought my first turn wasn't all that enlightening.😑
Second was a bit better, it needed to be!
Loower down, I used decoy as I could not decide between crown and drown for #1 and I thought oy was likely in #6, but I should probably have used something with dby instead. 
Can't complain though, hindsight is wonderful and at least it is better than yesterday.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,424 3/6

⬛🟨🟩⬛🟩
⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Oh, how nicely this worked out. The starter, for one thing, already gave me a very small set of possible answers, and my eliminator beautifully narrowed it down to just one.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,424 3/6

⬛🟨🟩⬛🟩 TRACE
⬛⬛🟩🟨⬛ SHAWN <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 AWARE 🎯

This Wordle tried to be sneaky in reusing the “a”, but it could not evade the power of the Eliminator 5000™. Mwa ha ha!

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1205
8️⃣2️⃣
🔟5️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
Score: 50

What a relief after yesterday’s horrible Octordle!

I could immediately guess 1R (your #2), and then 3R (#6), which gave me an excellent start.  I was tempted to essay a guess at 4R (#8), but there were a few possible answers there… Better, I thought, to use an eliminator now.

Spoiler

TRACE
WRECK 🎯
WHEAT 🎯
SPOIL <- eliminator
SPAWN 🎯
CREEP 🎯
PEDAL 🎯
VOICE 🎯
LEFTY 🎯 I don’t like this word at all, but nothing else seemed to fit
AMUSE 🎯 It might have been “abuse”, but there wasn’t much else it could be.

Daily Octordle #1205
VOICE 8️⃣2️⃣ WRECK
AMUSE 🔟5️⃣ SPAWN
PEDAL 7️⃣3️⃣ WHEAT
LEFTY 9️⃣6️⃣ CREEP
Score: 50

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1205
7️⃣9️⃣
6️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣🔟
5️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

Tricky… I managed to go through this without a misstep, but I wasn’t sure that would be the case.

Spoiler

TRACE
BOING <- eliminator
TOUGH 🎯
GUEST 🎯
QUOTH 🎯
TROOP 🎯
DROWN 🎯🍀 could have been frown
PLEAT 🎯 
BEVEL 🎯🍀 could have been belly
ENJOY 🎯

I almost played “adept” for 4R (#8). Had I tried “frown” for 1L, I’d still not have been sure about 4R – PLEAT or ADEPT?

And 1R was a risk; it could so easily have been BELLY.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1205
DROWN 7️⃣9️⃣ BEVEL
TROOP 6️⃣3️⃣ TOUGH
GUEST 4️⃣🔟 ENJOY
QUOTH 5️⃣8️⃣ PLEAT
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

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@springyzone wrote:

Daily Extreme Octordle #1205
9️⃣🕛
6️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣🔟
3️⃣7️⃣
Score: 56

Spoiler

I thought my first turn wasn't all that enlightening.😑
Second was a bit better, it needed to be!
Loower down, I used decoy as I could not decide between crown and drown for #1 and I thought oy was likely in #6, but I should probably have used something with dby instead. 
Can't complain though, hindsight is wonderful and at least it is better than yesterday.

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You played this intelligently, and although it went to the wire, every step is logically thought out. Yes, that lower eliminator could have used the letters you mention… but all in all, 👍🏻.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,425 4/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Spoiler

alien/shout/fudgy
I did consider pricy but thought D or G might go with the N, somehow.
I was surprised though that the G was green, it didn't leave me many places to go for the last letter, and the answer was all I could think of.