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]

Well, here I am up late and thinking, the clock has ticked over, I can do the wordle!

Not sure if the word games were a great idea at this time of night, the wordle went okay, the octordles, not as well, mind was a blank about several spots.

Wordle 1,434 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I was happy with this as I went with my first thought but it could easily have been something else. I did hesitate before turn 3, wondering if it would be the old repetition trick, but I had to try something, so I went with what i fancied.

Spoiler

alien/shout/shuck. At first i couldn't see what else it could be, then I thought, oh no, hopefully not shush.

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,434 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

My eliminator could not have been better. What a neat little process it was!

Spoiler

Wordle 1,434 3/6

⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛ TRACE
🟩🟩⬛⬛⬛ SHOGI <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SHUCK

[countessalmirena]

We were both lucky with our Wordle… but given my starter, I did have a slight little advantage…

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1215
8️⃣🔟
6️⃣7️⃣
🕛🕚
5️⃣4️⃣
Score: 63

Well, this was a right old mess, wasn't it.

Spoiler

After turn 2, I wasn't feeling it. I could see the shape of several of the words, but I felt like I needed a veritable smorgasbord of extra letters to be sure of anything.
In the event, I went for crumb. I felt #3 might have a C in it, though for the life of me I couldn't figure out how.
Later on when I ran out of oomph again, I used my old standby, fudgy, which i had been regretting not using earlier. probably an extravagance but then again, if I had not used it, I would have tried bonny for #2

So, I got there today but took the scenic route.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1215
8️⃣4️⃣
3️⃣🕚
9️⃣7️⃣
5️⃣🔟
Score: 57

At least this one got in under 60.

Spoiler

This was another one where I could see the shape of a few of them but not the final letter to finish them off.
I started off okay but then took a risk on #7. I went with swoon instead of spoon as I figured it might qualify as slightly more unusual.
Bumpy was my eliminator. I was looking at #6 and thinking, punch, bunch, hunch.

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1215
6️⃣4️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣3️⃣
🔟9️⃣
Score: 52

This seemed fine, but I was careful about the order in which I solved things.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator 
GAUNT 🎯
BONGO 🎯 “u” ruled out so it couldn’t be “mungo”
FLANK 🎯 “b” ruled out so it couldn’t be “blank”
WRIST 🎯
ABHOR 🎯 
MOLAR 🎯 “r” in last position so it couldn’t be “moral”
BLAME 🎯 “m” rules out “blade”
EMBER 🎯

Daily Octordle #1215
WRIST 6️⃣4️⃣ BONGO
ABHOR 7️⃣8️⃣ MOLAR
FLANK 5️⃣3️⃣ GAUNT
EMBER 🔟9️⃣ BLAME
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1215
6️⃣3️⃣
🔟5️⃣
7️⃣8️⃣
🕚4️⃣
Score: 54

I wasn’t as lucky with this.

Spoiler

TRACE
SHOGI <- eliminator
OASIS 🎯
GUSTY 🎯
DRIFT 🎯
BUDGE 🎯
BAGGY 🎯
BUNCH 🎯
SHEEP 💣
SHELL 🎯
SWOON 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1215
BUDGE 6️⃣3️⃣ OASIS
SHELL 🔟5️⃣ DRIFT
BAGGY 7️⃣8️⃣ BUNCH
SWOON 🕚4️⃣ GUSTY
Score: 54

[springyzone]

This seemed fine, but I was careful about the order in which I solved things.

This is where I often fall down, I think. I solve as the mood takes me and will tend to focus on one spot, then move to the word next to it, forgetting to look at the other end of the screen. 

 “u” ruled out so it couldn’t be “mungo

😁 I lead a sheltered life. I would have been blissfully unaware that mungo was even a risk there.

[springyzone]

Wordle 1,435 4/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Although I scored a yellow on my first turn, I can't say that that really narrowed the field very much.

Spoiler

After turn 2, my thoughts were-maybe spume, surge, super or suede. Suede was my least favourite. Don't know why, maybe because it was the last to occur to me. I fancied spume.
But I went with another eliminator, merge, as it covered m, g and r.
It took me a moment to realise I had exposed two e's. The eliminator worked out better than I had counted on.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1216
🔟8️⃣
9️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
7️⃣3️⃣
Score: 52

Today's octordles worked out easily enough for me but not until after my second turn, so 52 is the best I could hope for.

Spoiler