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]

Another morning woven from the felt of night… a mungo pre-dawn.

Octordle - it could almost mean a group of eight chorus girls wearing girdles and playing 8-part harmonies with fiddles and hurdy-gurdy. But no - there are no scantily-clad chorus girls here. Let’s start with the Daily Classic Octordle.

Daily Octordle #1216
🔟2️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣5️⃣
9️⃣3️⃣
Score: 46

Just look at that lovely 46. It’s so pleasing in its demeanour as a score.

Spoiler

TRACE
MECCA 🎯 could have been aleck but I thought it unlikely
ULTRA 🎯

SEGUE 🎯
BLAST 🎯
TRACT 🎯 Finally! I thought I’d have to guess between “tract” and “track”.
CUMIN 🎯
HOWDY <- eliminator (rather than guess between “weary” and “heard”, and anyway, I could do with some further data for 1L as I had only a yellow L and a yellow I
WEARY 🎯
IDYLL 🎯

Having TRAC_ for 2R, straightaway after starting, was frustratingly enticing. However, I had just enough information to be able to take a solid guess at 1R, which gave me just enough to take a solid leap at 4R, which opened up 3L, which gave me 3R, and thus to 2R, by which time I could also solve 2L. I could have tried guessing 4L but it really was best at that point to use my first eliminator.

Daily Octordle #1216
IDYLL 🔟2️⃣ MECCA
CUMIN 7️⃣6️⃣ TRACT
SEGUE 4️⃣5️⃣ BLAST
WEARY 9️⃣3️⃣ ULTRA
Score: 46

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1216

5️⃣9️⃣
7️⃣6️⃣
🔟3️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
Score: 52

Spoiler

I felt a bit at risk with my 3rd turn, chase as it could have been phase.

[countessalmirena]

From the heady heights of 46, back to the perfectly acceptable 52 for Extreme…

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

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
CHASE 🎯
HELIX 🎯
SIGMA 🎯
SPOKE 🎯
SILKY 🎯
SNOWY 🎯
SCOFF 🎯
CATTY 🎯

“S” certainly ruled this Extreme Octordle! Once I’d guessed “chase”, and thus been able to solve “sigma” in 4L, the rest fell into my lap.

Daily Extreme Octordle #1216
HELIX 4️⃣6️⃣ SPOKE
CATTY 🔟8️⃣ SNOWY
SCOFF 9️⃣3️⃣ CHASE
SIGMA 5️⃣7️⃣ SILKY
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,435 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

I was lucky. The eliminator narrowed things down from umpteen to four, and that luck kicked in with my 1-in-4 guess.

Spoiler

Wordle 1,435 3/6

⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩 TRACE
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛ SPOIL <- eliminator
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 SUEDE 🎯

Literally pure luck. It could have been segue, or sense, or sedge - but if suede was wrong, at least I’d have data on whether “u” and/or “d” were present.

[springyzone]

Wow, congratulations on your 46 yesterday. Great work.

My results are a bit mixed.

I have woken up very early and had trouble getting back to sleep so here I am.

Wordle 1,436 4/6

⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛⬛🟩
🟨⬛⬛🟨⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

alien/shout/fudgy, although I was sort of drawn to drift and probably should have just gone with it.

[springyzone]

Daily Octordle #1217
🕚5️⃣
🔟4️⃣
8️⃣7️⃣
9️⃣3️⃣
Score: 57

Spoiler

I got about half way and ran out of inspiration so used another eliminator (forge instead of fudgy as the D had already been out and R is such a useful letter. But of course I paid the price for it, score wise.

[springyzone]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1217
🔟6️⃣
7️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣🕛
9️⃣8️⃣
Score: 61

I know how bad this looks, but I feel they played a bit unfair with one of the words.

Spoiler

I made a mistake very early on (always fatal, score wise), as I played tango for #4. But really, Tonga? I could be mistaken but I have only ever seen that used as a proper noun & wasn't expecting that to be in the game.

Then at the end, I knew #6 was between plaid and flail (having ruled out flair) so I had a 50/50 chance with that and was just in the wrong 50.😁

[countessalmirena]

Wordle 1,436 3/6

🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

This didn’t take the turn I expected, but it was solvable with ease at row 3.

Spoiler

TRACE
SLING <- eliminator
GRIFT 🎯

Wordle 1,436 3/6

🟨🟩⬛⬛⬛
⬛⬛🟩⬛🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[countessalmirena]

Daily Octordle #1217
6️⃣8️⃣
5️⃣9️⃣
3️⃣7️⃣
4️⃣🔟
Score: 52

I don’t quite know why, but this seemed as tough as an old chicken. One misstep would be calamitous - or so i felt.

Spoiler

TRACE
LINGO <- eliminator
FRAIL 🎯
SAFER 🎯 could have been wafer
VISIT 🎯
SASSY 🎯
EGRET 🎯 My mind wanted “greet” but I pointed out to myself that the R couldn’t be the 2nd letter
DEPOT 🎯 My mind insistently suggested “begot” even though I told it “No, the G is ruled out!”
DWELL 🎯
TULLE 🎯

I’m glad that I opted for “safer”; the S was pivotal for the next two words.

The two Ls in “dwell” helper to reveal “tulle”.

Daily Octordle #1217
SASSY 6️⃣8️⃣ DEPOT
VISIT 5️⃣9️⃣ DWELL
FRAIL 3️⃣7️⃣ EGRET
SAFER 4️⃣🔟 TULLE
Score: 52

[countessalmirena]

Daily Extreme Octordle #1217
9️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣🔟
7️⃣2️⃣
Score: 51

This one wandered about like Sinbad!

Spoiler

TRACE
TRUCE 🎯 could have been trice
LINGO <- eliminator
TONGA 🎯
MANGO 🎯
GUAVA 🎯
SHAVE 🎯
NEXUS 🎯
FLAIL 🎯

Daily Extreme Octordle #1217
NEXUS 9️⃣6️⃣ GUAVA
SHAVE 8️⃣4️⃣ TONGA
MANGO 5️⃣🔟 FLAIL
WOVEN 7️⃣2️⃣ TRUCE
Score: 51