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 Extreme Octordle #1212
6️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
7️⃣🔟
4️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

Ooh, convoluted!

I had to be incredibly careful, thinking around edges and through thought-straws.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGS <- eliminator
GRASS 🎯
GLOAT 🎯
COVEN 🎯🍀 could have been cozen
FLING 🎯🍀 but could have been bling
FROTH 🎯 (my “fling” ruled out the other possibility, “broth”)
DUCHY 🎯
BELAY 🎯 (“Duchy” ruled out “delay”)
MODEM 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1212
FLING 6️⃣9️⃣ BELAY
COVEN 5️⃣3️⃣ GRASS
FROTH 7️⃣🔟 MODEM
GLOAT 4️⃣8️⃣ DUCHY
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,432 3/6

⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I suspected the answer right at the start. However, it certainly wasn’t the only solution or even the most obvious one. My eliminator was designed both to confirm my guess and whittle it torn if my gut instinct was wrong.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,432 3/6

⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛ TRACE 
🟨⬛🟨⬛⬛ LIMPS <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ALARM 🎯

[countessalmirena]

This was shockingly tricky. 

Daily Octordle #1213
🔟3️⃣
8️⃣9️⃣
5️⃣4️⃣
6️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

Don’t be fooled by the 52; it was hard to solve. I made guesses out of desperation and was lucky; it could very well have gone so wrong that I’d have ended up with more than 60.

Spoiler

TRACE
SHOGI <- eliminator
SLOSH 🎯
VOTER 🎯🍀
SMOKE 🎯🍀 could have been slope, spoke
FRIED 🎯🍀 could have been dried, pried
DROOP 🎯🍀 could have been drown
USURP 🎯
QUIET 🎯
PATTY 🎯

Daily Octordle #1213
PATTY 🔟3️⃣ SLOSH
USURP 8️⃣9️⃣ QUIET
SMOKE 5️⃣4️⃣ VOTER
FRIED 6️⃣7️⃣ DROOP
Score: 52

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Daily Extreme Octordle #1213
7️⃣5️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
9️⃣🕚
Score: 53

I wasn’t expecting Octordle to use a word that finished in a certain way. That led me astray with my final word to solve.

Spoiler

TRACE
FISHY <- eliminator (and such a good one for this Octordle!)
FRISK 🎯
MISTY 🎯
MARRY 🎯
ADMIT 🎯
CLIMB 🎯
BELCH 🎯
DAUNT 🎯
SANTO 💣
PANTS 🎯

I tried “santo” only because I expected Octordle not to use a plural such as “pants”; however, of course, it’s consistently used in its plural form rather than in a singular form so that one speaks of “a pair of pants” to indicate a singular item. Well, there we are!

Daily Extreme Octordle #1213
CLIMB 7️⃣5️⃣ MARRY
FRISK 3️⃣6️⃣ ADMIT
MISTY 4️⃣8️⃣ BELCH
DAUNT 9️⃣🕚 PANTS
Score: 53

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,433 5/6

⬛🟨🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This may look like the usual but it wasn't, quite.

Spoiler

alien/spout.
I was half inclined to go with scout, but at that stage, was thinking maybe pupil or pilot. So spout it was.

But I had to rethink and wondered.. maybe logic or folic
So, I went with fudgy
Then folic.

[springyzone]

I was pretty happy today with the octordles. They were very straight forward for me with minimal mental agonies.😀

Daily Octordle #1214
7️⃣3️⃣
4️⃣9️⃣
🔟5️⃣
6️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

[springyzone]

I may have solved the octordles today without too much pain but I am making a mess of the posts here. Firstly, I went to show my screenshot of teh classic and realised it wasn't in the file because I hadn't taken any screen shots today.

Then when i saw the post, I realised I had not put in the score part.

So making a right mess of the posts this morning.

I'll see if I can get this one right.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1214
5️⃣4️⃣
🔟9️⃣
3️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

[countessalmirena]

Today’s Octordle (Classic)

Daily Octordle #1214
4️⃣9️⃣
🔟2️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
Score: 51

I couldn’t quite be sure about the remaining words after row 2, so I did need an eliminator at that point. It proceeded in an easy way thereafter.

Spoiler

TRACE
STACK 🎯
LINGO <- eliminator
SHIRT 🎯
STANK 🎯
THETA 🎯
LAUGH 🎯
BRUTE 🎯
ASIDE 🎯
DEBUT 🎯

Daily Octordle #1214
SHIRT 4️⃣9️⃣ ASIDE
DEBUT 🔟2️⃣ STACK
STANK 5️⃣6️⃣ THETA
BRUTE 8️⃣7️⃣ LAUGH
Score: 51

[countessalmirena]

This was an interesting “Extreme” to play.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1214
3️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣6️⃣
🔟7️⃣
9️⃣8️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
FLIRT 🎯
VIDEO 🎯
VOCAL 🎯
ADORE 🎯
TIDAL 🎯
AWFUL 🎯
AWASH 🎯
SLYLY 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1214
FLIRT 3️⃣4️⃣ VIDEO
VOCAL 5️⃣6️⃣ ADORE
SLYLY 🔟7️⃣ TIDAL
AWASH 9️⃣8️⃣ AWFUL
Score: 52

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Today’s Wordle:

Wordle 1,433 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

If I hadn’t played the particular eliminator I used, it would have been a 4- or even 5-row game for me.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,433 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ TRACE
🟨🟨⬛⬛🟩 LINGO <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 FOLIO

It could have been polio.

Had I used LOGIN instead of LINGO, I would probably have tried “solid” in row 3. I would likely have guessed “folio” after that.