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]

Daily Octordle #1209
5️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣🕚
9️⃣7️⃣
3️⃣4️⃣
Score: 53

Spoiler

This wasn't too bad. #8 was a slight risk (could have been clomp)
Fell near the end. I was thinking reedy but I am sure I have seen that out recently, so I thought they may ring the changes, but... wrong call.
Still, happy with 53

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1209
8️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣🔟
🕚5️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
Score: 60

Spoiler

I didn't find this one straight forward. Always, there seemed to be traps-alternative choices so i held off in a few cases, which is just as well.

I didn't feel confident to guess after turn 2 so used another eliminator (pricy), hence the knock to the score I guess.

Even then, #8 I entered with fingers crossed it wasn't colic.

Is it just me or has #3 word been out a bit lately? Having its moment.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,429 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The opening was as informative as a stubborn mute.

At least the eliminator swathed through the myriad possibilities…

Spoiler

Wordle 1,429 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ LINGO
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVID 🎯

It was a choice primarily between livid and lipid, with a smaller likelihood of lippy (in my opinion).

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1210
8️⃣5️⃣
4️⃣🕚
3️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
Score: 53

Were it not for a perfectly logical final guess being wrong… well, never mind.

Spoiler

TRACE
LOINS <- eliminator
SLICK 🎯
TRUST 🎯
CRISP 🎯
TWIXT 🎯 
IMPLY 🎯
MIGHT 🎯
BARON 🎯
QUEER 💣
UDDER 🎯 

Daily Octordle #1210
MIGHT 8️⃣5️⃣ CRISP
TRUST 4️⃣🕚 UDDER
SLICK 3️⃣9️⃣ BARON
IMPLY 7️⃣6️⃣ TWIXT
Score: 53

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1210
🔟9️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
8️⃣2️⃣
Score: 51

One of my most frequently employed eliminators popped up; if only I’d used it earlier!

Spoiler

TRACE
TIARA 🎯
MOULD <- eliminator
TRAIL 🎯
TWEED 🎯
WOUND 🎯
ZEBRA 🎯🍀 could have been opera
WOOZY 🎯
MEATY 🎯
GHOUL 🎯 If I’d used this as my eliminator instead of mould, the score would probably be in the 40s.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1210
GHOUL 🔟9️⃣ MEATY
ZEBRA 7️⃣6️⃣ WOUND
TRAIL 4️⃣5️⃣ TWEED
WOOZY 8️⃣2️⃣ TIARA
Score: 51

[springyzone]

I actually did mine in the early hours today so could have beaten you to the pip but got weary.

Now I can't remember a thing about any of them.

I'll have to summon them up.

Wordle 1,429 4/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Ah, it all comes back.

I had a feeling shout would dud out on me but I did want to rule out any more vowels.

Spoiler

3rd turn I just used fudgy and after that, the answer was all i could think of.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1210
🔟4️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
🕚7️⃣
Score: 55

Spoiler

My main recollection of this is right from the start, being annoyed with #1 because I could guess the pattern but not the starting letter.
The score is 55 as I used the eliminator fudgy further down. I think I used it because I was hoping it might help with #1, which it didn't. #4 it did as I had been considering ruder. 

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1210
3️⃣7️⃣
8️⃣🕚
4️⃣9️⃣
🔟5️⃣
Score: 57

Spoiler

I had to laugh at your post where you mentioned one of your eliminators coming out, just on the day you never used it.
I used an eliminator early on (dumpy). That is one I often used in the early days & it paid off today, except with hindsight, i can see I really should have been able to guess zebra before I used the eliminator. And maybe #6 too if I had been on the ball.
I actually had a suspicion about wound being the answer  for #4 but held off till later, till others had been ruled out.
The makers seem to like certain word patterns, don't they. Ones with several possibilities.😁

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

Wordle 1,429 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

The opening was as informative as a stubborn mute.

At least the eliminator swathed through the myriad possibilities…

Spoiler

Wordle 1,429 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛TRACE
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ LINGO
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 LIVID 🎯

It was a choice primarily between livid and lipid, with a smaller likelihood of lippy (in my opinion).

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I'm with you here. Never going to be lippy (or at least, I doubt it). Such an aussie term, cannot imagine the Americans using it.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,430 4/6

⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟨
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

About to head off, will do octordle this evening.

Spoiler

alien/shout
After that, I couldn't see any way out of using another eliminator as the possibilities seemed endless.
I was thinking mirth, birth, ditch, pitch, witch
I used caped, which only covered some, but wasn't sure what else to use. In any event, it was useful but if the answer had been eg birth, I would have had to have another eliminator so 4 seemed good in the circumstances.